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created umpteen sects, excommunicating each other and calling each other apostates. . The Wahabi Saudi Arabia is staunchly opposed to the Ahmadis, whom they brand as apostates, though they themselves had been called apostates by the ulemas of Mecca and Medina until they conquered the Hedjaz in the 1920s. In my younger days in India if you did not like anyone you called him a ‘wahabi'; the word 'wahabi' was a word of abuse. Now the Wahabis have become the foremost Muslims, the champions of Islam, by building glittering mosques round the world with gushing petrodollars. Yet the. Arab world is scared stiff of Islam as propounded by the Islamic. Republic of Iran, because they believe that what is good for their monarchial families is good for Islam. Some Middle Eastern rulers want the Western Dajjal to save their Islam, and other rulers want the Russian Dajjal to save their Islam, as both groups of rulers are impotent by themselves. No wonder the Holy. Prophet was worried about Arab wealth, not about Arab poverty, so says the Hadith in Sahih Muslim. . This writer earnestly appeals to our non-Ahmadi Muslim brothers to ponder over a lot of anomalies in Islam accumulated in the course of centuries which could not be straightened by themselves, nor should they be left unattended. These need to be resolved, and resolved through someone sent by God. This someone was the Promised Messiah-Mahdi, who said if he had not come someone else would have come, sent by God instead. . Those who deny him as the Reformer of the fourteenth century. Hijra cannot produce another claimant who was, now that we are already inside the fifteenth century. With their unbelief in the. Promised Messiah, they will have to believe willy-nilly that God has forgotten to keep His promise in the fourteenth century, and the Holy Prophet had made a little mistake by predicting his coming (God save us!). The Jews denied Jesus as the Messiah, and they have been waiting in vain for two thousand years for their Messiah to come; they shall wait for ever; the same will happen to the Muslims. 28. Just as Islam will look a cock-eyed religion if we, like the