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Fazle Umar 328 with bloody dysentery. They wrote that they should be allowed to come back. Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] ordered them to stay back in the same condition and that they were to serve their country and the nation. Looking at such selfless services of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, some God fearing non-Ahmadi people felt it too and they testified about the sacrifices of Ahmadis during that time. One Hakim Ahmad Din, President Jama’at-ul-Masha’ikh Sialkot wrote in his magazine Qa’id-e-A’zam—January 1949: “Currently out of all the Muslim organisations, the Qadiani sect of Ahmadi Jama’at is number one. They have been organised from the beginning, are punc- tual in prayers and fasting etc. Their missionaries are successful not only here but outside in foreign countries as well. They played a major role in the success of Muslim League for the creation of Pakistan. In the struggle for Kashmir the kind of sincere and wholehearted participation shown by Ahmadi Jama’at along the side of Kashmir’s Mujahidin and the sacrifices shown by this Jama’at cannot be observed, in our opinion, in any other Muslim Jama’at that has shown such kind of courage and steadfastness. We are thankful to the Ahmadi elders in all of these matters and pray that God Almighty may bless them with greater capacity to help their country, nation and religion. ” The Battalion established a high reputation for discipline, courage, bravery and an eager spirit of service and sacrifice, an appreciation of which was conveyed by the Commander-in-Chief in his letter to Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] , when the Bat- talion was disbanded.