A Great Victory for Ahmadiyyat — Page 3
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 3 ] believe something just because it is what the majority believes is a grave mistake, for there are other ways to dis- tinguish between right and wrong. However, at the end of the White Paper published by the government of Pakistan, it proudly claimed and publicised to the world that: ‘We have a majority in numbers against Ahmadiyyah Jam a‘ at—a majority of the general public, and a majority in the National Assembly. In fact, the con- sensus to declare Ahmad i s non-Muslims has thus resolved a hundred year old issue once and for all. The fact that we all agree proves that Ahmad i s are wrong and so we need no other proof. ’ A Majority in Numbers and the ‘Great Multitude’ The fact is that agreement on a matter by both the people and the ulema [religious scholars] does not make it the ‘Great Multitude’ which had been mentioned by the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. Renowned ulema and past Islamic elders from Hadrat ‘Al i ra to the present time have openly expressed the view that, as far as the sayings of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa on the subject of ‘Great Multitude’ are concerned, it is incorrect to say that ‘Great Multitude’ means the opinion of a majority of the ulema and general population. It is wrong to think that this point of view concerning the majority is necessarily correct. On the contrary, Hadrat