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DRUG ADDICTION. Beside this false charge of alcoholism, Abdul Hafeez also accuses Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas of drug addiction and to prove this allegation, he claims to cite a statement made by. Hadhrat Mirza Bashirud Din Mahmud Ahmadra in which he allegedly stated that Hadhrat Ahmadas prepared a medicine the main constituent of which was opium and he used this on and off during attacks of disease. 193 The interesting thing is that while the author of Two in One claims that this statement was reported in the Al Fazl of Qadian, dated 19th July, 1929 194, the same statement is claimed by his spiritual predecessors, Ehsan. Elahi Zaheer in his book Qadiyaniat, An Analytical Survey, to have been made in the Al Fazl of Qadian, dated 19th October, 1929,195 What do such contradictions in relation to one statement attributed to one person in these hostile publications suggest to a perceptive person?. Hadhrat Ahmad's as views in relation to consumption of any kind of intoxicant have already been stated in the preceding pages and within his numerous calls to people to shun the use of these evil things, he described opium also, as something which is addictive and which destroys man. Therefore, Abdul. Hafeez may, to his heart's wont concoct this false charge against. Hadhrat Ahmadas but it is a recorded fact of the Ahmadiyya. Muslim literature that Hadhrat Ahmadas stated: 196 'Once a friend advised me that opium is good for diabetes and there is no hitch if it is taken for medicine. I replied that it is very kind of you that you have shown sympathy. But, if I form the habit of taking opium as a cure for diabetes, I am afraid people might make fun by saying that the first messiah was a drunkard and the second an opium addict. 1197 193. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One, p. 15/16 195. Zaheer, Ehsan Elahi,. Qadiyaniat, r/n. 4, p. 58. 194. Ibid, p. 16 196. Ahmad, [Hadhrat] Mirza Ghulam. Kashti Nuh, p. 65; Ruhani Khazain, vol. 19, p. 70/71 197. Ibid. , Naseem e Dawat p. 69; Ruhani Khazain, vol. 19, p. 434/35 165