تاریخ احمدیت (جلد 15)

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تاریخ احمدیت (جلد 15) — Page 571

079 ۲۔مسٹرڈ انٹر و لیبر (Donald Wilber) نے اپنی کتاب پاکستان (pakistan) میں پاکستان(Pakistan) جماعت احمدیہ کی نسبت لکھا :۔Even in the case of the Qadianis, however, the hositility towards the Ahmadiyya Movement did not stem primarily from its theology but from its social aspects۔It has a strong and closely knit organisation۔With high corporate enthusiasm its members devote themselves to the service of the community۔They strictly enforce purdah, encourage polygamy; have an ascetic morality that disapproves of all worldly indulgence; collect alms from their rich for their poor; have a very high literacy rate; find jobs for their members; and run their own mosques, courts, schools, and welfare institutions, for which they impose heavy taxes۔In 1947 they were the best educated Moslem group native, to the area which became West Pakistan۔As a result, they were drawn upon to fill many posts in the foreign ministry and other departments of the new government۔The widespread belief that Ahmadiyya find all their members government jobs, give scholarships to all their university students, and care only about other Ahmadiyyas is certainly an exaggeration۔Yet the strong internal cohesion of the group did involve external aloofness and it was this social exclusiveness a that brought about the antagonism between themselves and the rest of the Moslems۔Submerged for while during the hight of Hindu-Muslim communalism, this social animosity was strong enough that after 1947 a semipolitical group, the Ahrars, could fan it into violence by focusing attention doctrinal differences mentioned above۔on the "Pakistan" p۔96-97 by Donald N۔Wilber, HRAF Press, New Haven,