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TRANSFER TO MOSCOW 131 a passport is punished with a six-month imprisonment and a financial fine, whereas the punishment for being a spy is death. He said he would give me three days to think about this and suggested that it would be better for me to tell the truth; other- wise, I would have to suffer a lot of pain. I signed a document to confirm I understood my options and was sent back to my solitary room. When I heard this order from the Colonel and went back to my room, I turned to Allah Almighty and prayed to Him in great anguish, saying: O my Lord, should I be killed in Your service not just once but millions of times and come back to life, then in accordance with the poetic words of my dear Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih II, I promise that I would still declare: پھیلائیں گے صداقت اسلام کچھ بھی ہو جائیں گے ہم جہاں بھی کہ جانا پڑے ہمیں We will spread the truth of Islam, no matter what happens. We will go wheresoever we be compelled. I mentioned this because I was also told that it was possible I might be taken to Siberia, which is similar to “black water” [a term used to indicate exile]-like how the British government in India would send prisoners into exile. Three days later, when I was presented in front of the same Colonel, since the fact of the matter was that I was not a spy, I confidently testified so in a clear statement. The Colonel then asked what the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's policy would be if a war were to erupt between the British, which rules over our Community's headquarters in India, and another country where Ahmadi Muslims also lived. He asked