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Punjab Intelligence Version (part-3)
Secret Report of the Punjab CID about the Origin, Growth and Development
of The Ahmadiyya Movement Upto the year 1938
Source: National Documentation Center, Islamabad, Pakistan.

NO BURIAL NO ENTRY INTO MOSQUE (1937)

Early in 1937 there was trouble at Batala in the Grudaspur district over the burial of an Ahmadi in a Muslim graveyard and the local police had to intervene to maintain the peace. Under instructions from Jaji Abdul Ghani, the local Ahrar leader, sign-boards were affixed at graveyards forbidding the burial of Ahmadis, while the Ahmadis engraved names on tomb-stones so as to be able to produce proof of burial should the dispute be taken to a court of law. In March the Ahrars affixed notices at the local mosques at Batala prohibiting the entry of Ahmadis.

A serious dispute occurred over the burial of Ahmadi children in the old Muslim graveyard at Qadian on the 16th June, when a non-Ahmadi was soundly beaten by the Ahmadis before being rescued by the Police. Nineteen Ahmadis were subsequently prosecuted under section 326/147 of the Indian Penal code and eleven of them were sentenced to payment of fine. A month later, a party of Ahrars attempted to prevent the burial of another Ahmadi in a Muslim Cemetery in the suburbs of Amritsar.

CONFLICT WITH SIKHS (1937)

In June, the relations between the Sikhs and Ahmadis became still further strained as the result of the mortgage to the Ahmadis of certain property attached to the Dharamsala by the Pujari of Dharmsala Udasian at Qadian. The Pujari fled after making over the building to the Ahmadis but the Sikhs brought two priests from Amristsar who broke open the locks and took possession of the place. The Ahmadis wisely, dissolved the mortgage, but ill-feelings between the Sikhs and Ahmadis were revived soon afterwards as a result of the publication of an Ahmadi poster headed "Hazrat Baba Nanak Sahib Rahmatullah Alaih Ka Din Dharam" claiming that Guru Nanak was a Muslim.

MISRI-MULTANI CHARGE SHEET AGAINST MIRZA MAHMUD

Serious dissensions broke out in the Ahmadi community in June 1937. Two disaffected Ahmadis, Fakhr-ud-Din Multani and Abdul Rehman Misri, published posters containing serious allegations against the personal character of the head of the Ahmadiyya community and Abdur Rehman Mirsi, who was the Headmaster of the Ahmadi School of religious teachings, started a rival organization called the "Majlis-I-Ahmadiyya Qadian," with himself as President and Fakhr-ud-Din Multani as Secretary. The Lahore Ahmadi Party, the Arya Samajists, and the Ahrars, all took sides with the secessionists. The two rebels were excommunicated and threats of violence were held out against them by Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud in his speeches. The threats led an Ahmadi fanatic to stab Fakhr-ud-Din Multani and another Ahmadi secessionist on the 7th August. Fakhrud-din died of his injuries a week afterwards. His assailant was arrested and sentenced to death by the High Court early in the following year. Security proceedings under section 107 of the Criminal Procedure Code were taken against several prominent Ahmadis, including Khan Sahib Farzand Ali, an important member of the Ahmadi hierarchy, who was, however, subsequently acquitted by Court. In September, a report was made to the Police that a boy servant of Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud had been told by the affected Ahmadis to poison Mirza Bashir-ud-Din on promise of payment of a small reward. On enquiry the matter proved to be false. Following the auditing of the "Bait_ul-Mal" accounts of Qadian, a report was lodged that Abdul Rehman Misri has been guilty of defalcations during his tenure of the Headmastership of the Ahmadiyya School (This case failed in court in May 1938.) About this time a number of complaints were made by the Qadian Branch of the Ahmadi community on the one side and the Lahore branch on the other, charging each other with the publication if provocative articles in the press and thereby creating a situation likely to result in the commission of violent crime. The "Al Fazl" and "Paigham-I-Sulah", the respective organs of the parties, were warned to desist from, publishing objectionable matter on pain of legal action. In December, efforts were made by the Ahrars and excommunicated Ahmadis of Qadian to create trouble by publishing posters demanding an open enquiry into certain allegation against Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud. Five pamplets entitled. "Ahmadi Arbab Ki Khidmat men ajzana guzarish aur faisla ke asan tariq". "Bara Bol", "Janab Khalifa Sahib Ke dono pesh karda tariq faisla manzur", "Azal-e-Khalifa" and "Kiya tamam khalilfe Khuda hi banata hai?", which were circulated at this time, were found to be objectionable. The printer of the first poster was warned and of the remaining four pamphlets was fined. Internal dissensions among the Ahmadis continued. Strict disciplinary action was taken by Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud against the dissentients, who were invariably excommunicated and subjected to rigid surveillance by Ahmadi volunteers. Altogether nineteen Ahmadis had been excommunicated by the end of September 1938.

ASSASSINATION OF AN AHRAR LEADER (1938)

Minor incidents continued to take place during 1938. In February, Haji Abdul Ghani, President of the Majlis-I-Ahrar, Batala, died in suspicious circumstances of a wound on the head, and it was falsely alleged that he had been murdered by the Ahmadis for his anti-Ahmadi activities. Actually, the Haji had sustained fatal injuries after attending a drunken dinner. The case remained untracked. A pamphlet entitled "Yad-I-Raftgan", is said to have been published by the Ahrars in this connection, was proscribed by the Government. A number of Ahmadis interfered in the burial of a non-Ahmadi in the common graveyard in March when the police had to intervene to restore order. In June, the Ahmadis attempted to revive the agitation in connection with the Idgah at Qadian, which they claimed to be their exclusive property. Special police precautions had to be taken to prevent a breach of the peace. In August at Batala, Hara, a lad of sixteen, narrated how he had been unsuccessfully trying to kill Mirza Sahib for the past three months, but the story was probably false. The same month a fight took place between four Ahmadis and three Ahrars of Qadian as the result of a minor quarrel between little boys. The Police had to intervene to prevent another conflict between the Ahmadis and Ahrars in September, when about 350 Ahmadis under the order of their leaders decided to put up a comp on the Idgah and level the ground. During the year the Ahrars showed little signs of renouncing their hatred of the Ahmadis but their political credit was low and their were, therefore, unable top do much more than give occasional violent to their feelings by declaring at public meetings that the Ahmadis were outside the pale of the Muslim community.

In the long conflict between the Ahmadis and their opponents, it must be admitted that the Ahmadis came out with remarkably little immediate damage to themselves. This was primarily due to the extremely well regulated and efficient administration of Ahmadi affairs at Qadian. The machinery set up by Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud and his predecessors stood the strain extraordinarily well. But on a long-range view, the Ahmadis must be considered to have lost in prestige and materially impaired the future prospects of their missionary work. Some time must elapse before the Ahmadis are able to rehabilitate themselves in the eyes of the general public and to take up once again their proselytizing activities – the most important Ahmadi objective – with the same zeal and success which has characterized those activities in the past.

QADIAN AND LAHORE ORGANIZATIONS IN (1938)

The present organization of the Qadian section of the Ahmadis may be noticed briefly. The controlling authority of the movement is the Khalifa, who is, in theory, elected and holds office for life. The principal instrument of his authority is a central organization, known as the Sadr Anjuiman-e-Ahmadiyya, which is a registered body. The Anjuman is divided into a number of departments, each under the direct control of one or more Nazirs or Secretaries, At present (1938), there are nine important departments, viz, Amur-e-Ama, Bait-ul-Mal, Dawat-o-Tabligh, Talif-o-Tasnif, Talim-o-Tarbiyyyat, Ziafat, Jaidad, Jama-e-Ahmadiyya wa Maqbara Bahishti and the National League. These Departments are under the respective charge of Syed Zain-ul-Abdin, K. S. Farszand Ali, M. Abdul Mughni, M. Sher Ali, Mirza Bashir Ahmad, Mir Muhammad Ishaq, Mirza Muhammad Ashraf, M. Sarwar Shah and Shaikh Bashir Ahmad. Besides the central departments, there are a number of other institutions under the general control of the secretaries. The annual budget of the Sadr Anujuman-I-Ahmadiyya is approximately twelve lakhs of rupees. In addition, the Anjuman has a "Reserve Fund" amounting to Rs.25,00,000 and it is at present raising a Khilafat Jubilee Fund of Rs.3,00,000 which will be utilized in celebrating the completion of twenty-five years of the regime of Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud in Mrach, 1939. Outside India, the Ahmadis have twenty-two missionary centres in London, Rome, Belgrade, Budapest, Chicago, Buenos Aires, Lagos (South Nigeria), Gold Coast Colony, Mauritius, Nairobi, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Kobe, Pairum (Australia), Sumatra, Java, Ceylon, Rangoon, Singapore and Hong Kong. In India, there are about 1,000 Ahmadiyya Anjumans of which 536 are located in the Punjab, 50 in Patiala and Kashmir States, 7 in Mysore, 4 in Hyderabad (Deccan), 35 in Orrisa, 28 in Baluchistan, 9 in the United Provinces, 7 in Bombay, and 6 in the Madras Presidency. The Ahmadis claim a membership of approximately fifteen lakhs of persons throughout the World. The Ahmadi papers and periodicals published in India are the "Al Fazl", the "Faruq", the "Nur", the Al-Hakam", the "Misbah", the "Review of Religions" and the "Sunrise". Foreign publications include a Chicago edition of the "Sunrise", the "Muslim Times" (London), the "Al-bushra" (Egypt), the "Message" the "Dotan" (Ceylon) and "Al-Islam" (Java).

The organization and general position of the Lahore Party is comparatively less strong. The head of the party at present (1938) is Maulvi Muhammad Ali (who, in theory, does not hold office for life but is elected every year) and he is assisted by a general secretary, a financial secretary and an executive council. Mirza Mahmud Beg and Maulvi Aziz Bakkhsh are at present working as secretaries and the executive committee includes Maulvi Sadr-ud-Din, the famous Ahmadi missionary. The annual budget of the Anjuman-I-Ishaat-I-Islam, Lahore, is about two lakhs of rupees and its existing membership does not exceed 5,000 persons. The Anjuman has a number of branches in India and six missionary centres in London, Berlin, Java, Fiji, and West Africa. It publishes the "Paigham-I-Sulah", the "Light", the "young Islam", and the "Islamic World" in this country and the "Islam Review" and the "Woking Muslim Mission Gazette" in England. The Lahore Party is also collecting a Jubilee Fund to celebrate next year the completion of twenty-five years of the establishment of the Anjuman-I-Ishaat Islam, Lahore since its secession from the Qadian Party.4

SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-455
Unqualified support was extended during the Second World War in India and abroad by Qadiani and Lahore Jamaats to Allies.
ELECTIONS (1945-46)
Dubious policy towards Muslim League. Mirza Mahmud remained a protagonist of Akhund Bharat-United India.
PARTITION WILL BE TEMPORARY (1944)
Mirza Mahmud Ahmad seemed to stick to Qadian against heavy odds. He advised his followers that after evacuating their women folk they would return to Qadian.
PROTECTION OF QADIAN (1945)
Ahmadis Volunteers were activated for protection of Qadian.
ASPIRATIONS TO SUCCEED (1946-47)
Ahmadis aspired to succeed the Britishers and to retain Qadian as a buffer state between India and Pakistan in collaboration with Akali leadership.
AHMAD IN PAKISTAN (1947-1952)
Mirza Mahmud Ahmad fled to Pakistan in 1947. He took keen interest in politics and was eager to get a base in Pakistan. Zafarullah represented Pakistan in the UN on Palestine and Kashmir issues as Foreign Minister.
TEHRIK-I-KHATM-I-NABUWAT (1953-54)
Qadiani involvement in palace intrigues resulted in an anti-Qadiani movement. Martial Law was clamped on the Punjab. The Tehrik was crushed.
AYUB REGIME (1958-68)
Qadiani Community flourished in Pakistan and abroad during the Ayub regime. It was a Victorian rule for them. M. M. Ahmed became a powerful bureaucrat.
SEPTEMBER 1965 WAR
Qadianis were involved in some overt and covert operations during the Indo-Pak War. They aspired to get hack Qadian.
MIRZA NASIR, THE THIRD SUCCESS OR (1965-1982)
Mirza Nasir Ahmad became the Third Head of the community in 1965. During his leadership Qadianyat spread its tentacles in Pakistan and abroad especially in Africa.
COLLABORATION WITH THE PPP (1970-71)
Ahmadis collaborated with the Pakistan Peoples Party to help it win elections. Role of M.M.Ahmed in East Pakistan crisis (1971) was strongly criticised.
NON-MUSLIM MINORITY (1974)
Qadians were declared a non-Muslim minority by the Senate and the National Assembly of Pakistan in Sept. (1974) through a unanimous resulution. Credit goes to the late Z.A. Bhutto Prime Minister of Pakistan for his bold efforts to solve this 90-year old problem.
MIRZA TAHIR AHMAD FOURTH SUCCESSOR (1982)
Mirza Tahir Ahmad became the fourth head of the community after the death of Mirza Nasir Ahmad in June 1982).
ORDINANCE XX 1984
During Zia’s martial Law Anti-Qadianis movement gained momentum. In April 1984, Zia’s regime issued ordinance XX of 1984 to curb anti-state Qadiani activities. Mirza Tahir Ahmad fled to London.
CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS (1989)
In 1989 Mirza Tahir announced to celebrate Centenary celebrations after his vicious mubahila campaign (1988) which ended in fiasco.
SUPREME COURT VERDICT (1993)
Supreme Court of Pakistan rejected Qadiani appeal against ordinance XX (July 1993.)

References

1. That was not the reasons. Actually Mirza Ghulam, the founder of Ahmadiyya Jama'at, had already in his lifetime labelled all those who do not accept his prophethood as Kaafirs, infedils, bastards and out of the fold of Islam.

2. Report by E.W.C. Wace, Assistant to DIG Police, CID Punjab Simla, 2nd June 1928.

3. Punjab CID Secret Report on Majlis-i-Ahrar, 1938. (NDC Islamabad)

4. Secret Report of the Punjab CID, Lahore, 15th Oct 1938.

5. Events relating to 1939 - 1947 are based on following main sources:

* Mansergh, Transfer of Power documents.
* India Office Records, London (India- The War Series)
* Quiad-e-Azam Papers, The National Archives of Pakistan Islamabad.
* Punjab Police Secret Reports 1941 - 47 (NDC Islamabad)

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