Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 344
! ! 344 while o n the other hand they tell the public that we are government agents , thereby turning the government against us and inciting people to attack us and destroy our possessions. In the ir m osques , they declare that Ahmadis are pigs and should be refused entry in to their mosques. T hey make proposals to declare ou r marriages null and void. In short, our condition is similar to that of the Muslims during the time of the Holy Prophet sa. D espite the vastness of the earth, it has narrowed for us. Recently, gatherings were organized in Qadian where they hurled obscenities at us , and some government officials sid ed with them. On the one hand they incite t he government against us , and on the other they mislead the public. However, let our enemies remember that they shall fail. Let the wife part ways with her family , l et the husband d esert his family. However, Ahmadiyyat will not be forsaken. Recently, an incident occurred, where a child turned up [at one of our offices]. His parents had subjected him to several hardships and had even stripped him of his clothes. Our Jama ‘ at clothed him and brought him here. Thus, those who are destined to come to us , they will most certainly do so , and they will not care for the consequences. The boy whom God had decreed to come to us, was even stripped of his clothes and yet he still came. So w ho then can stop the one whom God brings to us ? No one can eliminate faith by striking at it with a sword or by stoning it. We are all aware of the situation in Kabul, as well as the circumstances Sahibzada Abdul Latif ra and Ne’matullah Khan Shaheed ra endured, whereby t hey were forced to walk around the bazaars. S ome [Ahmadis] from among them had their noses pierced and were told to give up Ahmadiyyat , but they did not. When Sahibzada Abdul Latif ra was brought to the execution grounds, the K ing told him that there was still time to denounce Ahmadiyyat. The mullahs threw stones at him. His disciples cried when they saw his handcuffs , but he said, “ T hese are gold en bracelets. ” An Indian trader, who has since accepted Ahmadiyyat,