تاریخ احمدیت (جلد 24) — Page 547
سال 1968ء 525 تاریخ احمدیت۔جلد 24 Ahmadis from professing that notwithstanding any doctrinal differences with the other sects of Islam they are as good followers of Islam as anybody else who calls himself a Muslim۔We are obliged to consider this aspect of the matter, because the petitioners' learned counsel in the course of his argument referred to certain parts of Munir's Enquiry Report on Punjab Disturbances of 1953 high-lighting the doctrinal differences between the Ahmadis and other sects among Muslims and to certain incidents where certain persons professing to be Ahmadis were dubbed as 'Murtads' and in some cases killed۔Two judgements, one of a subordinate court in the former Punjab and the other from a district court in what was once Bahawalpur State, wherein it was held that Ahmadis are not a sect of Islam were also placed within record۔We wonder how these instances are relevant۔The judgements are of subordinate courts and they are not relevant even under section 13 of the Evidence Act, 1872۔As to instances of Ahmadis being dubbed as 'Murtads' and done to death, all that we need to say is that these are sad instances of religious persecution against which human conscience must revolt, if any decency is left in human affairs۔How far these instances are opposed to the true Islamic precepts and injunctions would be manifest from Chapter 2; 256 of the Holy Quran which guarantees freedom of conscience in clear mandatory terms which are translated thus:-