Majestic Writings of the Promised Messiah — Page 9
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 9 ] Maul a n a Sayyed Muhammad Nadh i r H usain Mu h ad- dith Dehalv i did not consider the revolt of 1857 to be a lawful jihad. Instead, he regarded it as an act of dis- honesty, breach of trust, rebellion, and of hostility. He declared that participation in the revolt or assist- ing it in any way was a great sin. ( Ish a ‘atus-Sunnah An-Nabaviyyah , vol. 6, no. 10, p. 288) What Sir Sayyed Ahmad Kh a n has written about the mutiny in the booklet, Asb a be Bagh a wate Hind [Causes of Indian Revolt] is a long story. In summary, he has called it a rebellion and bastardly behaviour. (See Asb a be Bagh a wate Hind, compiled by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Karachi, Pakistan, Urdu Academy Sindh, 1957 for details. ) How unjust are their assertions! What can these asser- tions be termed other than a mockery of Islam. They have no fear of God at all. What their forefathers described as ‘bastardly behaviour’, is presently being described as Islamic jihad, only to find an excuse to criticize the Promised Messiah as. Criticism Regarding Nuz u l over Tower of Damascus Another objection that was raised earlier, and part of which has already been answered, is related to the nuz u l [descent] of Jesus Christ as over the tower of Damascus. Earlier, I had addressed the part of this objection pertaining to the descent of Messiah wrapped in two yellow sheets. The