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priesthood of old, now disown the Imams Abu Hanifa, Bukhari and Al-Gazzali and discard their literary works, so will 'Islam' of the Muslim world look a cock-eyed religion in times to come, if they disbelieve in the Promised Messiah-Mahdi and ignore his revealed prophecies and literary output. . Increasing number of books by the Promised Messiah are being translated and published in English. I request the readers of this paper to read as many as possible. Some of these books are mentioned in the bibliography at the end of this paper. . Those of us who live in Britain (or any other Western country) have special responsibilities to Islam and to Britain. We frantically ran out of what we call Islamic countries to live in un-Islamic countries. Why? Is it because we love this world and its amenities more than Allah, Islam and the Prophet? Or because, lacking. Islam in our so-called Islamic countries, where we had developed satanic tendencies, we are attracted to and feel quite at home in the un-Islamic or even anti-Islamic countries? For two reasons the above estimations do not apply to Ahmadi Muslims. One, their main concern is to carry the Message of Islam to the world, or to contribute towards it; two, Ahmadi Muslims in this country are mainly Pakistanis of the Punjab, many of whom had to get away from there because of the savagery of Ahmadi-bashing. Pakistanis, the very Pakistanis who clamour against the Pakibashing Britons in Britain. . While we are at it, we might as well tell what could happen to. Ahmadis in a Muslim country. Two Afghan Ahmadis, devoted followers of the Promised Messiah, were foully murdered by the order of the chief Qadhi and the Amir of Afghanistan. One was. Sahibzada Abdul Latif, a well-known saintly national figure, and his disciple, Maulvi Abdur Rahman, was the other. Maulvi Abdur. Rahman was strangled to death in prison in 1901, because he would neither deny his adherence to, nor the teaching concerning jihad he learned from the Promised Messiah, which was that persuasion and reasoning should be pursued in this age when believing in and preaching Islam is not forbidden, instead of warring jihad. Venerable Sahibzada Abdul Latif was made to 29