Murder in the Name of Allah — Page 47
Prophets and Troopers such a point of readiness that Islam can say to them: 'Yes, now you are the most upright servants of God on earth. Forward, Muslim soldiers, fight the rebels of God, dispossess them of authority and take the reins of government in your hands. ' Thanks to the Maulana's efforts, that body of upright men is now ready and waiting to gain strength to overthrow the government of the day. . The Maulana really believes that this body of ‘upright' men was created to reform mankind and raise Islam's flag in the world. It will abolish everything ungodly and carve with the sword the name of Allah on every heart. . The Maulana's claim that the members of Jamaati Islami are the most upright servants of God is believed to be baseless by the Ahmadis. As a matter of principle, everyone has the right to consider himself and his followers to be in the right. To be right is one thing. To be upright is quite another. We cannot claim we are righteous and upright Man is lost in a maze of self-deception, delusion and outright hypocrisy, so that he is unable to describe himself with any accuracy. Who knows the secrets of the heart, the lust of the mind and the hidden desires, except God? Only. He knows who is upright and who sins. There are exceptions, of course. . Some people exhibit unmistakeable and conclusive signs of their uprightness, so that the love of God is evident from their behaviour. God talks with them as He talked with the upright people of the past. His light shines over them as it did over the great mystics and saints of the umma and His succour and support becomes manifest, both in words and deeds. . Therefore Ahmadis totally reject Maulana Maududi's claim that the. Jamaati Islami was founded to raise the flag of Islam. That is, in fact, a degrading and defaming of the religion which he professes to follow. The followers of Maulana Maududi can claim whatever they want within the safety of a Muslim country like Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, but let them take their creed of 'Islam by force' elsewhere and just see what reception it gets. Can they convert Christians, with their belief in Jesus as living since his crucifixion in heaven, to Islam? Can they destroy the Cross? Can anyone raise the flag of Islam with these Maududian beliefs?. There is no doubt in an Ahmadi mind that the teaching of Maulana. Maududi brings Islam into disrepute and makes it a target of ridicule. The. Jamaati Islami is not only not a friend of Islam, but also it is a form of communism. Devoid of spiritual values, hungry for power, the Jamaati. Islami is inspired by Moscow, not Mecca. . In short, Ahmadis censure the Jamaati Islami as greatly as the $47