The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 172
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI. ANSWER:. This is a totally false and baseless charge. Ahmadis have always supported the Arab cause in Palestine and were first to point out the dangers to the Islamic world from establishment of the Jewish). State of Israel. When question of partition of Palestine was under consideration in United Nations in 1947 and 1948, Muhammad. Zufrullah Khan, first Foreign Minister of Pakistan and a devoted and prominent Ahmadi. fully supported the cause of Arabs against partition of Palestine and establishment of Israel. He advocated the cause of Arabs and the Islamic World sincerely and with such great skill and ability that Arab leaders are still grateful. . When the State of Israel was established in 1948. Hadhrat. Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih II, head of the. Ahmadiyya Movement at the time wrote several articles and gave many speeches about this problem. In these articles he established clearly that the State of Israel had been created in the heart of the. Islamic World by USSR, USA and Britain under a conspiracy. The super powers were opposed to each other in their political objectives but had become united in their hostility to Muslims and that they had no real sympathy for Arabs and Muslims. He urged Muslims all over world to become united to face this danger. These articles were greatly appreciated. Leading Arab newspapers like the Al-Yaum, AlAkhbar, Al-Qabas, Al-Nar, Sautul Ahrar and Al-Urdan, etc. , published extracts of these articles and unanimously praised and upheld the stand of the writer. How cruel and unjust it is that today in. Pakistan, Ahmadis are being charged by Mullahs to be agents of. Israel. . As far as the Ahmadiyya Mission in Israel is concerned, it is only a missionary centre for propagation of Islam and for benefit of training of Ahmadis there. It is not a diplomatic mission of any sort. . Ahmadiyya missionaries were first sent to Palestine in 1924 and a regular mission was established in 1928, twenty years before the establishment of Israel. The Ahmadiyya Community there has been established there since those early years. No new mission was opened there after 1948. Is it un-Islamic to propagate Islam to Jews? Some 172