Hazrat Sahibzadah Abdul-Lateef (ra)

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Hazrat Sahibzadah Abdul-Lateef 28 commonly understood concept of holy wars. The Promised Messiah as strongly supported the view that waging a holy war against the British was not permissible, since they protected mil- lions of Muslims who lived in perfect peace and harmony in their territories. When Hazrat Miya n Abdur-Rahman ra returned to Kabul for the last time, he took along with him some pamphlets about jihad published by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at which he presented to the religious scholars of Afghanistan. According to the pamphlets, it was against the teachings of Islam, as explained by the Promised Messiah as, to kill the British people in the name of jihad without a proper and open declaration of war against them. Jihad, accord- ing to Ahmadiyya Muslim teachings, can only