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42 Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Deen Mahmood Ahmad them first’. Instead, he instructed only to fight those who take up arms against you and to leave those who are engaged in the service of religion. The sixth example highlights the disregard for the feelings of the opposing party in worldly conflicts. The defeated party is oppressed, and their emotions are suppressed. The British government is considered civilised, yet there is a statue in Lahore of Lawrence 21 holding a sword that bears an inscription directing a question to the Indians: ‘Will you be governed by the pen or the sword?’ This statue and inscription are seen as insulting by the people of India because it implies that force will be used to rule over them if they reject the government. Despite repeated efforts to have the statue removed, the government has refused to do so. On the other hand, let’s consider the greatness of the Holy Prophet s as. He was subjected to countless forms of abuse by the Makkans. For 13 years, he and his companions endured torture at their hands. Women were murdered with javelins thrust into their bodies brutally, and men were tied up with ropes and dragged across scorching sands, made to lie on burning coals, 21 John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (born March 4, 1811, Rich - mond, Yorkshire, England—died June 27, 1879, London), British viceroy and governor-general of India (1864-1869). [Publishers]