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Arguments based on fiction

Apart from “trick” arguments, it is also to be regretted that members of the Qadiani Jama`at spread arguments based on complete fiction. Here is an example about Sahibzada Abdul Latif shaheed. About a year ago a friend of mine told me that Qadiani Jama`at members had told him:

“Just before Sahibzada Abdul Latif was killed he was asked to renounce his prophet Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. He refused, hence his death. This news reached HGMA and he did not rectify this omission regarding his prophethood.”

This is absolute and total fiction, as I explained to my friend in detail, as below.

The whole account of this incident is in the book Tazkirat-ush-Shahadatain by Hazrat Mirza sahib. Sahibzada Abdul Latif accepted him as Mujaddid and as Promised Messiah. This is repeatedly stated in that book. I quote:

1. “Sahibzada Abdul Latif told me this: … I could see that the time had
   come when a Mujaddid of the Deen should be sent by Allah … then I
   heard that a man in Qadian, Punjab, was claiming to be the Promised
   Messiah” (Ruhani Khaza’in, v. 20, p. 11)
2. “During this period of imprisonment the Amir made him an offer several
   times that ‘if you repent from the belief that the Qadiani man is
   truly the Promised Messiah, you will be released’ ” (p. 51).
3. “All during the imprisonment the Amir advised him not to accept the
   Qadiani man as Promised Messiah and repent from this belief” (p. 52)
4. “The Amir and the Maulvies knew well that the Qadiani who claims to be
   Promised Messiah was against Jihad” (p. 53)
5. “Even if millions of posters were circulated in that country to prove
   with strong arguments that I am the Promised Messiah, they would not
   have been as effective as the blood of this martyr” (p. 53)
6. “At the end of the debate with the Maulvies, the Shaheed was asked, if
   this Qadiani man is the Promised Messiah then what do you say about
   Jesus? He replied that Jesus has died and will definitely not be
   returning … then those people became enflamed, started abusing him
   and said: what doubt is there now in his Kufr?” (p. 54)

So the chief reason for the Sahibzada being declared kafir and killed was his belief in the death of Jesus and his acceptance of Hazrat Mirza sahib as the Promised Messiah. His debate with the Maulvies did not discuss at all any claim to prophethood by Hazrat Mirza sahib. Another reason given by Hazrat Mirza sahib as to why the Sahibzada  was declared kafir is that he accepted his concept of jihad and thus rejected the Maulvies’ concept of a war-like Jihad.

It is interesting to note that Hazrat Mirza sahib further says:

“The Amir at least ought to have asked his Maulvies: For what kind of kufr have you given the verdict of death by stoning? Why is this difference a matter of kufr? Why didn’t the Amir say to them: Your own sects have great differences among them. Should all of them, except one, be stoned to death?” (p. 56)

Hazrat Mirza sahib says here that the difference of belief for which they declared the Sahibzada as kafir and deservant of death was a difference of the same kind as other sectarian differences of interpretation between various Muslim sects. In other words, differences of beliefs between Ahmadis and other Muslims are of that sort of level.

Also, in his account of the Sahibzada’s stay in Qadian, Hazrat Mirza sahib says he told him about his claim of being a khalifa of the Holy Prophet and he writes:

“I told him that as the Holy Prophet Muhammad was the
khatam-ul-anbiya, and no prophet was to come after him…”
(p. 45).

This was the teaching about prophethood that the Sahibzada was given by Hazrat Mirza sahib.