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FOR THE LOVE OF THE HOLY PROPHET (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) by The Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement For thy love (0 Muhammad, peace and (f; blessings of Allah be upon him.) I have .L.rf kl!-;.::-d f J-io/1 / myself. For thy sake I have • / J,, ,, annihilated J.-. (' I J'.. 0 '52 o:;;J ~J thrown to the winds everything I had. k'-' My soul is eternally attuned to the soul of Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah rw/u~J/,,::_jd.~4-~; be upon him). I have drunk the cup of his love to the full. L(< kl~4--..;)t-f r~•J IJJ, God's glory can be seen in the excellence / / / ,II' of thy character. By coming into contact 4-·a tp '-1. J,; ~2. ;ycJ,t; with thee (0 Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.) I L~~~/~Jj vlcJ:~Lt'-}.. eventually came into contact with the Divine Being. / ,/ / , , Thy love has taken possession of every o}j _/2 ~,17"4-~~I JJ particle of my existence. See, this is the great city of love which I have built up in L(' k~/ ..lkv=~¾I my heart. The touch of thy garment makes one free ,;J1JL;r, from all traps. It is for this reason that I t·4--i~r'~ have bowed down my head at thy L/ k(fJ; ~21:,); ,J:v threshold. , . ,, ; I swear by God that all other marks were tl£ui~i.~4~J~ l,Af. wiped out of existence as soon as this •/ mark of thy love was printed in my heart. L~klk(?JL1~u!J~~~ - English Translation by S. Muhammad Tufail www.alahmadiyya.org MONTHLY THE LIGHT LAHORE Vol. LXVIII - No. 1 - 15 January, 1991 ORGAN OF LAHORE SECTION OF THE AHMADIYY A MOVEMENT 5-Usman Block, New Garden Town, Lahore-54600, Pakistan Telephones: 042-863260, 042-862956 Editor: NASIR AHMAD OUR REPRESENTATIVES CONTENTS USA Mr. Masud Akhter Choudhary 1376 Lytella St., Hayward CA. 94544 Hafiz Sher Muhammad Sahib - A Great GERMANY Champion of the Ahmadiyya Movement Mr. Saeed Ahmad Choudhary Brienner Strasse 7 /8 by Masud Akhtar, U.S.A. 2 D-1000 Berlin-31 ENGLAND Col. (Retd) Mahmud Shaukat An Allegation against the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement 15 Stanley Avenue Answered Wembley, Middx HAO 4JQ TRINIDAD by Dr. Zahid Aziz, Nottingham, England. 4 Mrs. Zarina Mohammad 106-A Old Southern Main Road McBean, Couva. News and Views - Islam and the West 5 SURINAME (S. AMERICA) Mr. Mohammad Rashid Pierkhan Zwartenhovenburg Straat 154 Book Review: The Shroud and the Controversy by Kenneth E. Paramaribo. REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA Stevenson and Gary R. Habermas. Mr. Osman Sydow by M. A. Samad 7 P.O. Box 112, Goodwood 7460 NEDERLAND _________BOOKS IN GERMAN________ _ Mr. A.S. Abdul Santoe Zevengetij deklaver -5 3069 DK Rotterdam TEACHINGS OF ISLAM INDONESIA by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Imam Musa Projosiswoyo P.O. Box 2535 LIVING THOUGHTS OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD JKT., Jakarta 10001 by Maulana Muhammad Ali INDIA Mr. Abdul Razak Fatimabai Court, 4th Floor FOUNDER OF THE AHMADIYY A MOVEMENT Jacob Circle, 17 Maulana Azad Road by Maulana Muhammad Ali Bombay - 400011 GUYANA (S. AMERICA) Moulvi Mohammad Rasheed PROPHET OF ISLAM ISLAM THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY 111 Regent Road by Maulana Muhammad Ali by Maulana Muhammad Ali Post Office Box 10692 Bourda, Georgetown. For prices and other details, write to: FIJI Mr. Mohammad Amin Sahu Khan Mr. Saeed Ahmad Choudhary 12 Bau Street, Suva. Brienner Strasse 7/8, D-1000 Berlin-31, Germany CANADA Mr. Yaseen Sahu Khan 3181 East, 15th Avenue Printed at PAKISTAN PRINTING WORKS, (Behind Veterinary College,) Lahore and Vancouver BC V5M -2Ll published by NASIR AHMAD from the office of THE LIGHT, 5 Usman Block, New AUSTRALIA Garden Town, Lahore-54600. Pakistan. Dr. A.H. Sahu Khan REGISTERED L. No. 8390 9 Yasmer Avenue, Haberfield, N.S.W. 2045 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION Rs. 75.00, US $15.00, UK £8.50 (inclusive air mail postage) If convenient, kindly send your subscriptions to our Representatives in USA, HOLLAND & ENGLAND for onward transmission to us. NEWS FROM PAKISTAN AND ABROAD Hazrat Ameer Dr. Saeed Ahmad Khan Sahib been done. Its final revision will soon start. By the grace of Allah, Hazrat Ameer Dr. Saeed Ahmad Khan Sahib kept fairly good health despite • New edition of the English translation of the the hectic days of the four-day Annual Prayer Gather Holy Qur'an has been undertaken. English translation ing held in the last week of December, 1990. During and notes are being recomposed as per latest compos these days, Hazrat Ameer led the Fajr congrega ing and printing techniques. tional prayers and delivered the Friday Khutbah as well. He later addressed the opening and closing sess • Translations Project is a joint venture of the USA ions of the Gathering and exhorted the members to and Canada Ahmadiyya Anjuman and enjoys the face the present situation with courage and convic kind cooperation of other Jama'ats in foreign coun tion. He also thanked Allah for the steady progress of tries as well. The aim and object of this Project is the Translations Project being carried out jointly by to publish translations of the Holy Qur'an and other the USA and Canada Anjuman. And publication of important books on Islam into various Foreign the French translation of the Qur'an in Canada, he languages. By the grace of Allah, its budget has now observed, was indeed a commendable achievement. exceeded five hundred thousand US Dollars. He expressed satisfaction over the results of the joint efforts of the USA and CanadaJama'ats and the kind Mrs. Sameena Sahu Khan, President of the cooperation of other Ahmadiyya Jama'ats abroad in Canada Ahmadiyya Anjuman alongwith Dr. Nauman furthering the objectives of the Translations Project. Elahi Malik of the USA are worki~g labouriously on the Translations Project. Thanks to their tremen It is gratifying to note that men as well as women dous efforts, the Project has produced amazing results present during the Gathering generously responded, within a short period of four years. May Allah bless as in the past, to the appeal of Hazrat Ameer for their noble efforts. Mrs. Sameena Sahu Khan has donations. recently provided us with details of the programme which the Project intends to accomplish within the Let us pray for the health and long life of Hazrat next two years. It is briefly as follows: Ameer! May the Jama'at, with the blessings of Allah and under the guidance of Hazrat Ameer make Details regarding the five translations which are further progress! in progress i.e. Japanese, Chinese, Russian, German and Polish have already been mentioned. Besides GLIMPSES OF ANNUAL PRAYER GATHERING, these, the books which are being translated and will 1990. be published within the next two years are: • French translation of the Holy Qur'an has been published in Canada. The major portion of its cost of German translation: The Religion of Islam, A Manual publication has been borne by our esteemed brother of Hadith, Muslz'm Prayer Book, Muhammad the Dr. Abdullah Jan of USA. Prophet and Ahmadiyyat in the Service of Islam. • Copies of the French translation of the Holy Russian translation: The Teachings of Islam, Living Qur'an worth five thousand US Dollars are being Thoughts of Prophet Muhammad, The Early Cali donated to various libraries in France, Quebec (Cana phate and The Religion of Islam. da) and West Africa. French translation: The Teachings of Islam. • New translation of the Qur'an in German is ready for printing. It will, Insha Allah, see the light of Polish translation: The Religion of Islam and Islam the day by the end of the year. the Religion of Humanity. • Russian translation of the Holy Qur'an is also Japanese translation: Islam the Religion of Humanity. ready. Its revision is in progress. Its publication is expected towards the end of this year. • A meeting of the International Consultative Committee, chaired by Hazrat Ameer Dr. Saeed • Three-fourths of the translation of the Holy Ahmad Khan Sahib, was held on 29th December, Qur'an into Chinese has been done. The remaining is 1990, in Jami'ah Dams Salaam, New Garden Town, to be completed within the next few months, aftei: Lahore. Besides members from Pakistan, the follow which its final revision will be undertaken. ing foreign delegates attended: Dr. Nauman Elahi Malik, Mrs. Hamid Rahman and Mrs. Munir Ahmad • The Polish translation of the Holy Qur'an has just (USA), Mrs. Sameena Sahu Khan (Canada), Mr. been started by the learned translator who was en Abdul Jameel Hassan Muhammad (Holland), Mr. trusted with the Polish translation of The Religion of Abdul Aziz (Asstt. Imam Berlin Mission, Germany) Islam by the late General Abdullah Saeed, ( of which and Mr. Abdul Razak (India). the translation is now complete). INDONESIA • Japanese translation of the Holy Qur'an has also We are grieved to learn about the sad demise of (Contd. on p. 10) 2 THE LIGHT HAFIZ SHER MUHAMMAD SAHIB A Great Champion of the Ahmadiyya Movement by Masud Akhtar, U.S.A. The little town of Khushab nestles in the foothills arguments advanced by the Founder of the Ahma of the Salt Range in Punjab, Pakistan. A pious agricul diyya Movement. turist from an Awan family living in this town was worried for lack of a male progeny. Besides agricul When he was fifteen or sixteen years old, he ture, his family was seriously engaged in imparting appeared in the Maulvi Fazil examination of the religious instructions to the Muslims residing in that Punjab University which was an examination in Ara area.