Ahmadiyyat or Qadianism! Islam or Apostasy? — Page 341
And the need of defence against the mischief of his adversaries was infact the reason why the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim. Community took recourse to severity of language. He declared: 'My words had assumed severity against my opponents in my writings, but I was not the one to start such a severity. Those writings were undertaken in reply to the severe attacks of my opponents. They had used such harsh and abusive language as called for some severity. 21. Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, the founder of the. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community emphasised: 'The harsh language used by me was by way of retort. It was my opponents who first used such language against me. I could have endured their harsh language without making a retort to it but I had to retort on account of two reasons: One, so that my opponents, being faced with the severity in reply to their harsh strictures, might change their tactics and might revert in future to the use of civil language; and two, that the general Muslim public should not be aroused by the defamatory and provocative. language used by my opponents. "". One has only to read the grave provocation caused by the anti. Ahmadiyya elements of that age to be able to appreciate Hazrat Mirza. Ghulam Ahmad's reasons for taking recourse to this severity of language to which these people take exception. For instance, in a joint. Fatwa issued against Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad by the mullahs of. Punjab in 1890, the expression 'Dajaal,' taken to mean personification of all vices was used against the Promised Messiah and the Imam Mahdi. 23. In this Fatwa, the members of his Community were referred to as 'the children of Dajaal. '24. Within the context of the same despicable Fatwa, he was abused with such vulgar expressions as a'confirmed liar and fabricator;25 a faithless 21. Ahmad, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam: Kitabul Bariyyah: pg 10 23. Fatwa Ulemma e Punjab wa Hindustan: pg 41 342 22. lbid: pg 11 24. Ibid: pg 41 25. Ibid: pg 87