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and his followers: 'Their marriage contracts are void and anybody is free to enter into matrimonial relationship with any woman in the wedlock of any of them. ". A year later, Maulvi Abdul Haq Ghaznavi issued a leaflet against Hadhrat Ahmadas in which he stated that on the basis of. Ghaznavi's revelations, Hadhrat Ahmadas was, God forbid, 'an infidel and would be thrown into hell. 136 A certain Muhammad. Baksh also issued a handbill in the same year in which a campaign of slander and vilification was let loose against. Hadhrat Ahmadas by the mullah of Lahore. 37 He also used the columns of the Ahle Hadeeth journal Ishaatas Sunnah to abuse the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and was stated to represent the official view of the Ahle Hadeeth leadership. 38 In 1893, the. Muhaddith of Delhi, Maulvi Nazir Hussain began to call upon. Muslim: 'not to salute the members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim. Community with an Islamic salutation. . This demand by the leadership of the Ahle Hadeeth in India also required that Muslims abstain from any social contact with. Ahmadi Muslims. It stated that: 'It is unlawful for Muslims to invite an Ahmadi to a meal or to accept an invitation from an Ahmadi. '40. Maulvi Muhammad Hussain Batalvi, who at one stage praised. Hadhrat Ahmad's as services to Islam but later became hostile to him issued repeated fatwas of Takfir against Hadhrat Ahmadas 35. Fatwa Ulama e Ludhiana, circa. 1890, vide. Life of Ahmad, p. 426 36. Ghaznavi, Maulvi Abdul Haq. circa. February 1891, vide. Life of Ahmad, p. 178 37. Baksh, Muhammad. Jafar Zatalli, 11 June, 1897 38. Ibid. , Ishaatas Sunnah, vol. xviii, no. 5, pgs. 150 & 154/55 39. Delhvi, Maulvi Nazir Hussain. Ishaatas Sunnah, vol. xiii, p. 85 261 40. lbid