Truth Prevails — Page 149
( 149 ) From a too frequent use of the word Nabi , in regard to the Promised Messiah, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II had apprehended trouble that after some time people might extract from the word Nabi the sense of a Nabuwwat-i - Mustaqilla. Thus the position is clearly implied here that if the Paigham-i- Sulha , and its friends, in season, and out of season, had not so frantically been harping on the same tune, that the Promised Messiah was not a Nabi , forcing us to join issue on the point, by insisting that he was a prophet, and the two Sections had not kept the controversy hot for fifty years, there might well have been no agitation against the Ahmadis; there would have been no disorder, no martial law, to cope with the lawlessness that raised its head. It thus stands to reason that by far the greater part of ill will against the Ahmadis is the result of the Lahore Section’s vehemence on the point in the press and from the platform, against Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II in the guise of a discussion on the question of Nabuwwat. It is unfortunate that the Lahore Section is not prepared to stop this propaganda even now, as tracts published recently bear witness. Mr. Faruqi’s book itself is a link in the same chain. It is entirely wrong and unjustified on his part to say that a temporary measure, in a certain contingency, has assumed a permanent form, for the Ahmadis of the Rabwah Section have never held that the Promised Messiah was a Mustaqil Nabi , nor does it hold that view now. We have always believed that he was an Ummati Nabi ; and we still hold the same belief. But what is the remedy for us when we find that the Ulama on the other side had concealed the real position and based the agitation on a false ground? Statement of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II before The Inquiry Commission It is not easy to understand what is Mr. Faruqi’s aim and intention in reproducing Hazrat Khalifatul Masih’s statement before the Inquiry Commission, except that he desires to keep the old propaganda against us, which, so far has conferred no benefit on them, while it certainly has wasted a good deal of energy on both sides, which should have been poured into the missionary endeavour. But the Lahore Section, it seems, is not prepared to stop this propaganda even now. Otherwise, during the last fifty years, so much has been written from both sides on points under dispute that the reader can easily get to the truth at the bottom. The difficulty however, is that where the people opposed to us consider that the key to their success lies in their opposition to us, they cannot hold themselves back from it although their efforts on this point have always failed. Hazrat Khalitfatul Masih II stated before The Inquiry Commission that the Promised Messiah is a Nabi , and to deny him constitutes kufr and he also explained that this kufr is not of the first kind which results from a denial of the Kalima “ ” “there is no one worthy of worship except Allah and Mohammad is His Apostle. ” In the court he was asked if