Majestic Writings of the Promised Messiah — Page 7
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 7 ] even after that period, our antagonists cannot accuse the Promised Messiah as or the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at of ever engaging in a battle against the interests of the Muslims—God forbid! But what they now call a struggle for the Muslim cause, repeatedly proclaiming it to be a jihad for the sake of Islam, had elicited in the past an entirely different reaction from their forefathers. The anec- dote recorded by Maul a n a ‘ A shiq ‘Al i continues: They would not flee or falter from the onslaught of the insurgents; instead they held fast like an immov- able mountain, and were ready to lay down their lives for the sake of their government. What an astounding display of dauntless valour! In a situation that would tame the bravest, these mendicants held onto their swords against a horde of musketeers standing firmly as though their feet were glued to the ground. And therefore they became targets of gunfire. In this skirmish, Hadrat Ha fi z Ra h matull a h was martyred by a bullet that hit him below the navel. ( Tadhkiratur-Rash i d , Meerut, part. 1, p. 74–75, by Maul a n a ‘ A shiq ‘Al i ) This is the conduct of their own ancestors in what they now term as jihad of the Muslims against the British. But as I have submitted before, it is an utter falsehood to call it jihad. During the mutiny, the most eminent and God-fear- ing ulema warned the Muslims that it was nothing but seditious turmoil and advised them not to be involved in