In
a previous article in the Blog we have noted some of the outstanding
allegations against Hadhrat Khalifa Sani (ra) (click here) from his critics– including the imposition of
social boycott against rebels in Qadian and even a murder case involving an Ahmadi alleged to have been “ordered” by
the second Khalifa. From our examination of some of the public records and court
judgements, what is apparent is that there was a religious, social and
political context in which the unfortunate events have occurred in the 1930’s
in Qadian under Hadhrat Khalifa Sani (ra).
As
we have shown in the article, while the towering Majlis-i-Ahrar leader Maulana Ataullah Shah Bukhari was prosecuted
and punished by the Lahore High Court for his hate speech and incitement to violence against the Ahmadis in a single public sermon in Qadian,
the same High Court in the same period absolved the second Khalifa of the allegation
of incitement to murder his “Muslim” enemies/ Ahmadi rebels, even after
examining several of his speeches
printed and published in the Ahmadi Press, including the “AL FAZL” of the 1930’s.
The Hon’ble High Court had before it those very sermons and it reached its
conclusions after forensically analysing the contents thereof and that too in
the context of a murder case which took place in Qadian itself.
Flawed Perception of a Complex
Legacy
Let
truth be told. It is not just the Lahori-fellow travellers who are guilty of a
flawed perception of a complex legacy of the past. Put differently, members of
both the mainstream Jamaats- Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya
Qadian and the Lahore Ahmadiyya
Movement are wrong in their ‘blames’ and ‘accusations’ against Hadhrat
Khalifa Sani (ra). If there is visceral hatred on the part of the enemies of
Hadhrat Khalifa Sani (ra) to implicate and consider that he “ordered” murders
and violence against his opponents, the people who claim they are his followers
in the “mainstream” Jamaat are equally guilty of the sin of deification, unexamined adulation and uncritical implementation of his policies even for a new age.