January

2012


Editors:
Shahid Aziz
Mustaq Ali

Contents: Page
Announcements and News 1
The Promised Messiah speaks 2
The Second South Africa Case 3

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Announcements and News
Friday Prayers 12:30
Dars/speech 12:45

Sunday 01-01-2012 15:00

Webcasts: Please note that the Friday
khutba and prayers, the dars, as well as all meet-
ings are broadcast over the Virtual Mosque at
the time stated above.
Acquisition of New
Equipment
The UK jamaat has acquired the latest print-
ing equipment. This is a digital printing machine
with automatic duplex facilities and direct print-
ing from a computer. The means that rather
than first having to print the material and then
copy it resulting in loss of sharpness especially
in pictures it can be printed directly from the
computer.
The machine has facilities to staple pages so
that booklets can be produced automatically in
one process triggered from the printer. The
Light in your hands was printed on our new ma-
chine and we look forward to your comments.
Hazrat Ameer in the UK
By Akbar Abdullah, Editor HOPE, USA
Meeting with a distinguished member
of the Lords
Hazrat Ameer-i-Qaum, Dr Abdul Karim
Saeed Pasha Sahib held a fruitful meeting to
benefit our Jamaat in the United Kingdom with
Lord Eric Avebury, a human rights activist and
a distinguished parliamentarian. After Dr Muja-
hid Ahmad Saeed sends us the photographs
taken during this important meeting with a text
report we shall include the material in the first
one of our two supplements we intend to pub-
lish. Our readers can obtain more information
about the political agenda of Lord Avebury by
accessing his website on the Internet.

Luncheon in Woking by Br Azhar-ud-
Din Ahmad in honour of Hazrat Ameer
Mr Azhar-ud-Din and Mrs Samira Ahmad
hosted a welcome lunch in honour of Hazrat
Ameer, Head of the Worldwide Lahore Ahmadi-
yya Movement, on 13
th
November, 2011 at Jhol-
pali Restaurant, Byfleet, Woking, England.
Brother Nasir Ahmad has submitted a detailed
report of this event and Dr Jawad Ahmad has
provided us elegant photographs of the lunch-
eon meeting which will be part of our first sup-
plement of the two of Hazrat Ameer's last two
weeks of activities in the United Kingdom
which we intend to publish.
Jumah prayers at Dar-us-Salaam
(London)
In the late morning of Friday, Brother Azhar
-ud-din drove Hazrat Ameer-i-Qaum from Bir-
mingham to our London Mission House where
the latter delivered khutba and led the Jumah
prayers. Mr Tim Miller, the Vice-President of
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the European Chapter of the Universal Peace
Federation attended the Jumah prayers as an
observer of Hazrat Ameer's sermon and prayers,
and after the prayers he delivered a brief mes-
sage of peace.
Dr. Zahid Aziz followed Mr Tim Miller, and
delivered his speech on the "Importance of Ad-
vent of Masih-e-Maood.
Nasir Ahmad and Dr Jawad Ahmad in-
vite Hazrat Ameer to tea
Towards the final days of Hazrat Ameer-i-
Qaum, Dr Abdul Karim Saeed Pasha Sahib's final
leg of the tour of UK & Mainland Europe,
Brother Nasir Ahmad & family hosted a farewell
tea party in his honour in their residence on last
Sunday afternoon.
The President of the UK jamaat lauds
Hazrat Ameers efforts
Sister Jameelah Khan, President of AAIIL, UK
expresses a highly favourable opinion of Hazrat
Ameers mission to the United Kingdom and the
Mainland Europe. In a telephonic conversation
with me she stated that she marvels at the ener-
getic spirit of Hazrat Ameer which the latter has
demonstrated by his visit to the UK Jamaat. She
said that it is due to his stamina, sincerity and
faith. JazakAllah!
Hazrat Ameers departure from the UK
The Promised Messiah
Speaks
Muslim scholars misunderstanding of
the doctrine of jihad
Remember, the doctrine of jihad, as under-
stood by the present day Muslim scholars, who
are called Muslim priests, and the form in which
they state this doctrine to common people, is
absolutely incorrect. Its result is nothing except
that they, through their passionate sermons,
turn the men of brutish qualities into venomous
beasts dispossessed of all pious virtues of hu-
manity. Thus, so it happens. I know for certain
that the sin for all the brutalities and unjust
bloodshed that results at the hands of these ig-
norant conceited persons, who are quite un-
aware of why and for what reason, in its early
period, the necessity for war arose for Islam,
rests on the shoulders of these Muslim priests
who secretly keep teaching such doctrines,
which lead to such sorrowful bloodshed.
When these people meet the government
officials they kneel so low to greet them as if
they are ready to prostrate before them. But
when they sit in the gatherings of their compa-
triots they repeatedly insist that this country is
Dar-al-Harb. In their hearts they consider wag-
ing jihad as their religious duty. There are few of
them who are not of that view. These people are
so firm in their belief about jihad, which is com-
pletely erroneous and against the teachings of
the Quran and hadith, that if someone does not
agree with their view about this they call him
Anti-Christ and declare him deserving of the
penalty of death. Accordingly, I am subject to
such decree and some Muslim priests of this
country have declared me an Anti-Christ and a
heretic. Without any fear of the Laws of the Brit-
ish Government they have issued a private de-
cree about me that this person deserves to be
put to death, his property looted and his women
abducted. And, that one doing so is worthy of
great Divine reward.
But for what crime! Only this: that my being
the Promised Messiah and preaching against their
doctrine of jihad and declaring the coming of their
Hazrat Ameer, Dr Abdul Karim Saeed Pasha
and Dr Mujahid Saeed
at Heathrow before departure for Pakistan
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case our jamaat was directly involved and the case
started with two plaintiffs, Ahmadiyya Anjuman
Ishaat Islam Lahore and Mr Ismail Peck against the
Muslim Judicial Council. After much legal wran-
gling and many hearings, eventually the case be-
came Ismail Peck v MJC. On the day the hearing of
the substantive matter started the defendants
withdrew. Although this meant that we won by
default Hafiz Sher Muhammad still proceeded to
present our case announcing that if the Defendants
decide to rejoin the proceedings at any stage there
will be no objection from the Plaintiff. His evidence
continued for a week but the Defendant did not
reappear. Mr Ismail Peck was declared to be a Mus-
lim and therefore, by extension, so were all
Ahmadis. We printed and published the book The
Ahmadiyya Case which is a translation by Dr Zahid
Aziz of the evidence presented to the court by
Hafiz Maulana Sher Muhammad.
The second case did not directly involve us. It
was between two Sunni imams, Sheikh Jasseim
and Sheikh Nazim and Sheikh Jasseim, and the M J
C, whose President, I think, Sheikh Nazim was.
How the second case started :
In South Africa each mosque has an endow-
ment by way of land, shops and other property and
the income from that endowment bears the
mosques expenses and pays the imams salary.
Most Sunni mosques joined together many years
ago to form the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC), a
body to which they assigned the authority to issue
fatwahs or religious opinions. Sheikh Nazim was
the head of the MJC and Sheikh Jasseim the imam
of a mosque. It seems that when this mosque was
built there was not much income from its endow-
ment as it lay some distance from the main city
and its facilities. However, as population increased
and the city expanded the mosques property be-
came extremely valuable and the income, mainly
rental, increased many fold. It is said that Sheikh
Nazim wanted his son to be appointed the imam of
this mosque. The problem was that, in South Af-
rica, imamat was regarded as hereditary making it
impossible for Sheikh Nazim to remove Sheikh
Jasseim.
So it remained until some Lahori-Ahmadis vis-
ited Sheikh Jasseim. As they talked the Azan was
blood-shedding Messiah and blood-thirsty Mahdi, on
whom they have pinned great hopes of pillage, as
completely false doctrines became the cause of their
rage and enmity. But they should remember that the
doctrine of jihad as it is in their minds is not correct
as its first step is shedding the blood of human sym-
pathy. We have a two-fold response to their question
that when jihad was permissible in the earlier period,
what is the reason that it is now prohibited? Firstly,
that the view about jihad is mere conjecture, which
has exceptions. Our Holy Prophet (s) did not raise the
sword against anyone except those who first raised
the sword and mercilessly slaughtered innocent and
righteous men, women and children. And they killed
them in such a distressing manner that even now
reading those accounts makes us cry.
The Second South Africa Case
Some Memories
Shahid Aziz
As many eyewitnesses to the historical events
that took place in the case Sheikh Jesseim v Sheik
Nazim and the MJC have passed away, Dr Mujahid
Saeed has asked me to write down some personal
memories of my participation in these momentous
events and to share them with you.
Two cases in South Africa:
In the eighties there were two court cases in
South Africa where the question whether Ahmadis
were Muslims or not was discussed. In the first
Hazrat Ameer, in a pensive mood (perhaps re-
flecting upon the quality of lunch) and Mr Azhar-
ud-Din Ahmad
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called and Sheikh Jasseim asked the Ahmadis to
join him for prayers. They responded by saying
that as he regarded them as kafirs they could not
pray behind him. At this the Sheikh said that it
seemed to him a silly comment for had it been a
Hindu or a Christian he would have asked them
to wait as he goes to pray. The fact that he asked
them to join him in namaaz shows that he re-
garded them as Muslims. Upon this, the Sheikh
led the prayers and members of our jamaat
prayed behind him providing Sheikh Nazim with
the excuse to start a campaign to oust Sheikh
Jasseim from the imamship of the mosque. Then
other things happened. There was a wedding at
the house of someone called Rakip where
Sheikh Nazim said that Sheikh Jasseim was an
Ahmadi lover and thus unfit to lead a Muslim
congregation. Eventually, Sheikh Jasseim was
dismissed by his local board under pressure
from Sheikh Nazim. Sheikh Jasseim promptly
sued both Sheikh Nazim and the MJC for breach
of contract by an unfair dismissal and defama-
tion of character. As a consequence of these is-
sues the question of what Ahmadis believe arose
all over again.
Before the hearing started :
Hafiz Sher Muhammad again went to South
Africa and spent a long time there. Mr Masud
Akhtar Choudhry was also there to translate and
interpret for Hafiz sahib. And, Rishad Khan was
organizing things as Sheikh Jesseims solicitor.
Zahid translated material and, as luck would
have it, as fax had been invented (!) fax it to the
solicitors. Hafiz sahib would ring me from South
Africa and give me a long list of references to dig
up and send him. Fortunately, at that time I
worked in Central London and on many days I
would take a longer lunch hour and go to some
library or other to find the books from which
Hafiz sahib wanted photocopies as original
source material.
As the hearing date drew closer the question
of court interpretation arose. And for some rea-
son known only to himself, Hazrat Ameer, Dr
Saeed Ahmad Khan sahib, asked me to go to
South Africa to translate and to interpret in the
High Court.
Threats and mind games :
At that time Mr M R Malik was very closely
involved with our jamaat. He would ring me al-
most daily to talk about things and we became
friends and occasionally we would meet to go
out. As young men all over the world do we
would go out to exciting places in Central Lon-
don and the West End. I mention a few, as I be-
lieve they still exist, and if any of our young
members want a bit of excitement, as we did,
they can also go and spend many happy hours
there! These were: the India Office Library, the
Library of SOAS, the University of London Senate
House Library and the British Library etc.
I discussed my trip to South Africa with him.
One day he rang me asking me to meet him as he
had important information. As he had contacts
with many organizations I was curious to find
out what it was. When we met he warned me
that there are plans afoot to assassinate
Ahmadis who go to South Africa for this case. I
was sure that this was just an empty threat but I
immediately rang South Africa and spoke to
Hafiz Sahib to warn him. It seems that such
threats had been made in South Africa as well
and Rishad Khan, the solicitor there, had ar-
ranged for a paramilitary guard to protect Hafiz
sahib.
When I got home I told Riffat, my wife, about
this in the hope that she will come up with a
suitable excuse for me to get out of the trip. I
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assume that it was after checking my life insur-
ance policies (!) that the reply she gave was this.
She said Allah provides for even those who have
neither a mother nor a father. If I believed that I
provided for the family then I should not go but
if I believed that Allah provides then I should go.
Second, she said that she did not expect her hus-
band to turn his back to the enemy.
But that wasnt the only problem that arose.
At the time I worked for British Telecom in a
department called Logistics. One day a clerk
came and told me that the pen I had ordered had
arrived. I had indeed ordered some biros so I
asked her to put them in the stationery cup-
board. She was insistent on my collecting this
pen so I told her not to be silly and just put the
pens where people could get them. I was later
told that someone had ordered a gold Parker
pen and the lady was trying to get me to accept
it and to sign a receipt for it.
Many years later, after I had moved to an-
other part of BT I saw someone in Holborn who
worked with me in Logistics and asked him
about the gold pen incident and why the pen
was so specifically offered to me. He told me that
the black members of staff, and this was about
one third of the section, resented my going to
South Africa for a holiday which if you remem-
ber had apartheid at the time. They had set this
trap for me. They hoped that I would accept the
pen, they would inform BT internal investigation
team and I would be charged with theft and dis-
missed. Of course having acquired a criminal
record and without a reference I would not have
been able to get another white-collar job. But I
guess, Allah saves His own people.
Getting to South Africa :
At that time, many countries, because of its
apartheid policies, did not recognize South Af-
rica. This meant that if a person has a South Af-
rican visa in their passport they would be de-
nied entry to places like Pakistan. I explained
this to the embassy and they stamped a visa on a
blank sheet of paper.
To be able to take maximum leave I took a
night flight. I remember I had a meeting with
suppliers which over-ran and I rushed to the
underground. There was some kind of incident
and there were thousands of commuters being
off-loaded at King Cross. I fought my way out as
there was no point in waiting and ran down the
road. Zahid and I used had spent some time in
halls of residence in the area so I knew the back
streets. Anyway I got to the airport just in time,
checked-in, found my seat and discovered I had
dropped my wallet. As I began to panic the air
hostess walked straight up to me and asked me
if I was Mr Aziz and after seeing my passport
handed me my wallet. This is one time Ive been
glad to have been brown among a sea of white
faces!
The plane landed at Nairobi and then at Jo-
hannesburg where I had to change planes for
Cape Town. At Johannesburg the security at the
airport was the way it is now at most airports. I
had to empty my pockets in a box and walk
through the machine which bleeped. I had to go
back and take off my belt and shoes and tried
again. There was no response to my protests
that the machine was malfunctioning. Every
time I had to take off one more item and try
again until I was a picture of theres no place to
hide anything. At which point the Sergeant
went: You may be right, put your clothes back
on. I have to say that it is not easy to drag a trol-
ley full of books with one hand while trying to
pull your pants up with the other as you hop on
one leg; especially when scores of people are
laughing and clapping. Although I was grateful
for the experience I dont really want to repeat it.
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Sana Ullah Amritsari and secret plans :
I arrived at departures. I looked around and
saw what I guessed were some of the witnesses
from Pakistan who were appearing against us.
They must have boarded the plane at Nairobi. To
check my guess, I went and lent on a pillar close
to them so that I could hear what they were say-
ing. They were indeed talking about the hearing
in which Hafiz Sher Muhammad was appearing
as a witness. One asked the other: Why is it
only Ahl-i-Deoband who conduct this jihad
against the Qadianis? The other replied: Who
else is going to do it? Barailvis? They are tomb-
worshippers and Qadianis will defeat them in a
minute. I was grateful to learn that we could
easily defeat the vast majority of Muslims living
in the sub-continent in one minute. You are
right, said the first man, Maulana Sana ullah
Amritsari declared them a kafir and carried out
a jihad against them all his life. The other re-
plied: The less you say about Sana ullah the bet-
ter. All you needed was to give him ten rupees
and he would declare anyone you wanted a kafir
or a Muslim.
Mrs Sabiha Saeed (wife of Hazrat Ameer), Mrs Bano Anwar, Mr Azhar-ud-Din Ahmad, Mr
Shahid Aziz and Dr Mujahid Saeed
They also said that they will be using
Qadianis original books so that we will not be
able to ask for the original and how they had to
bring a ton of books with them to make sure.
This proved to be very useful because when I
went to collect my luggage I stood close to the
belt to see what they had brought. They had
been very kind and labeled each package with
the names of books. To my delight I noted that
they were indeed original Qadiani books but
mostly those written by the likes of Mirza Bashir
ud Din Mahmud Ahmed, Mirza Bashir Ahmad
etc.
Work starts :
As I got out I found our brothers from the
South Africa jamaat waiting for me, worried at
the delay in my coming out. I think it was Rishad
Khan, the solicitor, Sulaiman and one more per-
son whose name I cant remember. We drove to
Rishads house. Hafiz sahib was anxious for me
to arrive because there was still a lot of work to
be done in translating materials from Urdu into
English. There were also other difficulties such
as the fact that when Hafiz sahib arrived back in
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Pakistan after the first case, the Government of
Pakistan confiscated a lot of his books as if such
confiscation would actually change the facts.
I asked Rishad if he could get hold of a couple of
PCs. Before I left the UK I had been experimenting
as a part of my job with introducing PCs using word
processing etc. to BT so I knew what would be use-
ful. Shabir, a friend of Rishads, provided two PCs
and a matrix printer. We hired a typist and by the
following day, off we went translating. I directly
keyed-in material but Masud sahib would write out
the translation and the typist we had hired would
key it in. He had much typing to do as Masud sahib
had already translated a lot of the material. Zahid
would of course send his translations in a typed
format.
The following day we met Sheikh Jasseims ad-
vocates, Mr De Villiers, one of the top barristers in
South Africa, and his assistant whose name I cannot
now remember.
An interesting incident :
Mr De Villiers had been part of the team which
put South Africas case regarding, I think it was Na-
mibia, to the World Court. He told us of an interest-
ing conversation he had with Sir Muhammad Zafa-
rullah Khan who was one of the judges of the Inter-
national Court. Mr De Villiers told us that when the
court started hearing the case Sir Zafarullah ex-
cused himself saying that he hated the system of
apartheid so much that he may not be able to do
justice to the South African case. Later on, when
the Court decided in South Africas favour, Sir
Zafarullah told Mr De Villiers that had he known
that white judges were going to give such an
unjust decision he would not have withdrawn
from the case.
Our plans :
Mr De Villiers started by asking Hafiz sahib
how he would explain matters to the opposition
barrister under cross-examination. To my aston-
ishment, the Great Hafiz replied: With love. It
would be many years before I would learn that
Hafiz sahib was correct and my fist waving and
shouting in the court did not further our cause. I
told everyone about our opponents plans and
the books I had seen and suggested that at the
very start we announce that we are not Qadianis
and we will not respond to any quotations from
their books. This was agreed. Hafiz sahib then
asked Mr De Villiers to make an application to
the court at the very beginning asking for the
court not to sit on Fridays because of Friday
prayers. This was agreed.
It reminded me of the incident at the start of
the First South Africa Case when the opposi-
tions maulvi stood and asked everyone to raise
their hands and pray for the truth to be victori-
ous. Hafiz sahib immediately leapt to his feet
and asked all Ahmadis to stand up and join the
others in their prayers and say Amin. All I can
say is that Allah listened to our Sunni brothers
prayer and granted it and truth was victorious.
Mr De Villiers then started going through
the evidence. Long days were spent going
through Hafiz sahibs evidence. If Mr De Villiers
didnt fully follow something, Hafiz sahib would
become very anxious and say to me: explain to
him because if our advocate doesnt understand
the issue, how will he explain to the court. And
then set about finding more references for
translation.
Once the hearing started the routine was to
arrive at Mr De Villiers chambers which was a
few minutes walk to the court, go through what
was going to happen during the day, then pro-
ceed to the court for an all-day hearing, go back
Interior of one of the Lahore-Ahmadiyya
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to the chambers have a debriefing there, come
home and start translating more materials. I
was amazed at Hafiz sahibs capacity for hard
work. He would give evidence all day and then
go through books looking for references all
night.
A prayer :
The night before the hearing I prayed to Al-
lah for the truth to prevail and if I find the oppo-
nents case to be convincing then not to let my
long family association or pride stop me from
accepting the truth.
The battle commences :
The hearing started and Mr De Villiers made
his application for Friday off. The judge looked
at the other barrister who turned and asked his
clients. To my surprise but not to Hafiz sahibs
there was much whispering and then no objec-
tion was raised to our application.
I was put on the stand because first the
judge had to be convinced that I would be able
to interpret properly and second because I had
to swear to interpret faithfully. I got the shock of
my life when the opposition barrister started to
cross-examine me. You support Sheikh Jesseim,
dont you? he said. I support the oppressed
everywhere. I replied. Who paid your fare? I
paid it out of my own pocket. I have the receipt
here. Do you want to see it? And so it went on
until he asked me to look at a translation and
give my opinion as to its accuracy. I was puzzled
and Mr De Villiers, who must have noticed the
change in my expression, immediately leapt to
his feet and raised some objection. The judge
did not allow it and asked me to answer the
question. I had had the few seconds I needed to
collect my thoughts and declined to comment.
The barrister then took me to another transla-
tion and asked the same question and I gave the
same answer. When the barrister tried it a third
time the judge stopped him.
I surveyed the opposition bench which I think
had about twelve anti-Ahmadi experts including
Professor Ghazi who was the main witness against
us and Prof Khurshid Ahmad of the Jamaat i Islami
and many others. Two came from Al Azhar to criti-
cize Hazrat Sahibs Arabic but left after about a
week without saying anything. Fourteen against
one, I thought the odds were still in our favour! The
Public Gallery was full of people shouting slogans
against us which were making me angry but not
having any impact at all on Hafiz sahib.
Hafiz sahib took the stand and I requested the
judge if he may give his evidence while sitting
down. The judge agreed but Hafiz sahib would not
sit down and insisted on giving evidence while
standing. The judge then ordered Hafiz sahib to sit
down and he agreed. He started by saying that he
will not reply to any question or objection based on
the books by Qadiani. I noticed this caused much
consternation among our opponents.
I started interpreting for Hafiz sahib and sud-
denly one of the opposing team leapt up and
started whispering in their barristers ear who then
rose with an objection. As Hafiz sahib and I usually
spoke in Punjabi I had started translating in Pun-
jabi whereas the oath I had taken said that I would
interpret in Urdu. The judge asked me whether this
was correct and I it was and explained the reason. I
confirmed that I could interpret in Urdu.
(To be continued)
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