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THE WEEKLY
www.alhakam.org AL HAKAM | Friday 16 May 2025 | Issue CCCLXXIV Ahmadiyya Archive & Research Centre (ARC), 22 Deer Park Road, London, SW19 3TL, UK info@alhakam.org | ISSN 2754-7396
Two nuclear powers on the brink of war: A just and logical solution ignored in 1947 When India and Pakistan gained independence from British rule in 1947, various princely states were given the right to choose either the Indian Union or Pakistan.1 These states included Junagadh, Kashmir, Hyderabad and more. Kashmir was a Muslim-majority state whose head was Maharaja Hari Singh. Unable to decide about the accession to any of the two new Dominions, he signed the interim standstill agreements. Another princely state was Junagadh. It was a Hindu-majority state, ruled by Nawab
Muhammad Mahabat Khanji III, who was a Muslim. He decided to accede to Pakistan. Hyderabad, another Hindu-majority princely state, was ruled by a Muslim Nizam who had decided not to participate in the Constituent Assembly of either Pakistan or the Indian Union. In early October 1947, the Indian Union helped form a Provisional Government of Junagadh in Bombay and the Nawab was overthrown. Following this, it was expressed in Pakistan that, in light of this development, the Pakistan Government
could not be blamed if it supported any independent government of Kashmir established in its own territory. Hence, the Provisional Republican Government of Kashmir was established, which announced the overthrow of Hari Singh and the establishment of a new government.2 The then Ahmadiyya Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmadra, also expressed at that juncture that since Junagadh had decided to accede to Continued on page 3
Hadith-e-Rasul – Sayings of the Holy Prophet Muhammadsa
Tahiyyat-ul-Masijd َ َ َ َّ َ َ َ َ َ ْ َ ّٰ ّٰ َ ��� أ ّن َر ُﺳﻮل ا�� ِ� ﺻﻠﻰ ا،�ِّ �ِ اﻟﺴﻠ ﻋﻦ أ�ِ� ﻗﺘﺎدة َ ُ َ ْ َ َ َ َ َ ُ �ﻠﻴﻪ وﺳﻠﻢ ﻗﺎل� ِإذا َدﺧﻞ أ َﺣﺪ� ُﻢ اﻟ َﻤ ْﺴ ِﺠﺪ َ َ َ َ ْ ْ ْ َ ََْ �ﻓﻠ� ْ��� َر� َﻌ َﺘ� ِ� ﻗ ْﺒﻞ أ ْن � ْ�ﻠِ َﺲ Hazrat Abu Qatada Al-Salamira narrates that Allah’s Messengersa said, “Whenever one of you enters the mosque, let him perform two rak‘ahs before sitting down.” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Kitab as-salah, Bab idha dakhala l-masjida fa-l-yarka‘ rak‘atayn, Hadith 444)
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas, In His Own Words
An incident of Hazrat Sheikh Abdul-Qadir Jilanirh related to truthfulness There is an account narrated about Syed Abdul-Qadir Jilani, may Allah have mercy on him, that when he set out away from home for the purpose of his education, his noble mother sewed his share of eighty coins into the underarm of his shirt and advised him: ‘Son, do not lie.’ When Syed AbdulQadirrh departed, on the first day of his journey he passed through a jungle that was inhabited by a large band of thieves and robbers. A party of robbers confronted and apprehended him. The robbers asked: ‘What have you in your possession?’ Syed AbdulQadirrh thought to himself that he was being tested in the first stage of his journey; he reflected over his mother’s advice and said: ‘I have eighty coins which my noble mother has sewn into the underarm of my shirt.’ The robbers were extremely surprised on hearing this and said: ‘What is this dervish saying! We have never seen such a righteous man!’ They took him and putting him before their chief, related the entire story. When the chief questioned him, Syed Abdul-Qadir Jilanirh gave the same response. Finally, when his shirt was torn at the place that he had described, it turned out that there were indeed eighty coins sewn into his shirt. All Continued on page 3