Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at and Independence of Kashmir and Palestine — Page 18
Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at and Independence of Kashmir and Palestine [ 18 ] Kashmir. At his call young and old, trained and untrained members of the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at joined the jih a d. Arms were provided to them and they were helped monetarily and an organisation was established for them. These are historical facts and cannot be ignored by the opponents of the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at. As much as they would like to, they cannot erase this history. At the time when organised efforts were being made by Pakistan for the freedom of Kashmir and the freedom forces were struggling on their own, Jam a ‘at-e-Islam i was issuing terri- ble fat a w a and propagating that it was not jih a d anymore. They advised not to join it [the struggle for Kashmir] with the presumption that it is jih a d —[saying that] you may give it any name other than jih a d. In other words, an oppressed country where the lives of Muslims were at stake, where Muslim countries from around the globe started tak- ing steps to protect them; at that time, a fatw a was being published from Jam a ‘at-e-Islam i ’s instructing not to go near [Kashmir] since ‘it was not jih a d. ’ At that time, the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at estab- lished Furq a n Force. It was the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at that offered a full battalion to fight against the 3. The Imam of the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at at the time was Hadrat Mirz a Bashir-ud-Din Ma h m u d Ahmad, second successor to the Promised Messiah as. He is also known as Hadrat Mu s le h -e-Mau‘ u d ra. [Publisher]