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corpse is indescribable. When it is known in the town that an. Ahmadi has died, all the graveyards are put under guard with people armed with sticks and the corpse is subjected to all sorts of indignities. A search is made for a coffin but it cannot be procured. Grave diggers refuse to dig graves. Wood and bamboo become scarce. Being disappointed in every direction, when the relatives of the dead decide to bury the corpse inside the house, someone informs the Municipal. Authorities and the officials of the authorities appear at the door to frustrate the design. 159. Should Ahmadi Muslims have to justify their decision to segregate their own mosques and graveyards and create a distinct identity for themselves after such treatment by their opponents treatment which continued into the 20's and 30's and thereafter and with greater intensity? In fact, the opponents of Hadhrat Ahmad as would not let Ahmadi Muslims in peace after this decision also. In 1928, Ahmadi Muslims obtained a plot for the purpose of establishing an independent cemetery at. Cuttack in Orissa where the remains of an Ahmadi woman had previously been disinterred by the adversaries of the. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and thrown on the door of her husband's house. 60 But, these opponents would not permit the burial of a small child even in this graveyard. 61 Such incidents were repeated at Calicut in Malabar 62 and Bhadrak in Orissa 63 as well as countries across the ocean in Africa. At Meru in Kenya, infant twin cousins of the author of the present publication were denied burial space in the Muslim cemetery by relatives of their own parents and had to be buried on the other side of the cemetery wall in a patch of land offered by an African farmer in his small field. In 1942 also, an infant Ahmadi child had to be buried in the grounds of a flour mill belonging to an Ismaili for the same reason. 59. Ahle Hadeeth. vide. Al Fazl, 9 February, 1918 60. Al Fazl, 14 December, 1918 62. Ibid. , 25 February, 1934 61. Ibid. , 13 April, 1928 63. Ibid. , 27 April, 1938 266