Mahzarnama (The Memorandum) — Page 151
Mahzarnama 151 1311 Hijra] The Muslim divines opposed to Ahmadiyyat did not simply issue the fataawa but were always keen to ensure their strict enforcement, as evidenced by the following inflammatory excerpt from the book Mukhadi'at-e-Musailmah Qadiani (p. 2, published in 1901 A. D. ) written by Maulvi Abdul Ahad Khan Puri—a disciple of Pir Mehr Ali Shah Golarhvi: "The Mirza'i faction was extremely insulted and humiliated. They were thrown out of Friday observance and congregation. Whichever mosque they used to gather in and offer congregational prayers, they were ignominiously expelled from the same mosque; wherever they were preforming their Friday prayers, they were barred from there under compulsion. . . there were numerous other kinds of humiliations which they had to bear. Their economic and social interaction with the Muslims came to an end. Their formally married women were snatched from them on account of their Mirzai-ism. Their dead bodies lay without funeral-ablutions, in a shroudless state, and dumped into pits, without getting a funeral prayer. " The honourable Members of the Assembly can well imagine that after being victims of persecution and hardships for a number of years if the members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at had to take any steps, under duress, to avert further tribulation and disorder, then it may be an indicator of their miserable and painful predicament, but it cannot be used as an argument in support of their being allegedly "non-Muslim. " There are further aspects of this issue, the details of which comprise an already published pamphlet which is reproduced verbatim as under: Why Do Ahmadi Muslims Not Pray Behind Non-Ahmadis? The most popular pastime of the Muslim divines in Pakistan these