I had shown an apprehcnsion prophetically enough that this was the~rconcept as true Isism

I likely t o be the first step towards Prophethood. Mirza Sahib was the Const~tutiunalAmend

1 quick in reruting this and in claiming that he was a firm believer

in the finality o f the prophethood of the Holy Prophet Muhammad
their faith as Islam. The)
freely by puhlicat~ono f b
I (P.B.H.) and in his view any claim t o prhphethood was not less il~dividualMuslims tu credte
than kufr (unbelief). to create law and order sir
I present Ordinance was 2 s '
This uneasiness,resentment and hostility among the Muslims srances the Ordinance appe
increased when the c l a ~ mo f being the Promised Messiah and Article 20 about ~ t sb u n g
Mehdi was made in 1890. I t would be clear from the books of order.
Mirza Sahib and other Quadianl literature that Muslims crowded
around the placesof his stay i n different cities whenever he visited For the above reasor
them. The Ulema were also extremely agitated. and are dismissed.

This agitation reached its peak by the distinct claim o f Bcforc f ~ n ~ s h ~

t hn~gslu
Mirra Sahib t o prophethood made in 1901. cord our deep appreclatlon
Muleehur Rahman, petillon
After the establishment o f Pakistan, there was such an agi- 'ate for the Federal t i o v e r
tation on this point that the Martial Law o f 1953 had t o be cn- l i ulht:
p r r > r ~ ~ l auf ~ ~~ d s zW d s
forced t o curb it. This, however did not succeed in quietening
the Muslims' demand as voiced by the Ulema in their 22 points
programme for incorponting i n the Constitution the non-Muslim
and minority statusof the Quadianis.

The agitation continued despite the imposition o f Martial

Law till the representatives o f the Muslim public i n the Parlia-
ment and the National Assembly had t o pass the Constitution
(Second An~cndment)Act 1974 after giv~nga full hearing to the
Quadianis through M i n a Nasir Ahmad, Chief of the Quadidni
Sect, and t o add a definition t o Article 260 o f the Constitution o f
1973 declaring the Quadianis of the two well-knwon groups as Islamabad dared the 28th (
non-Muslims and placing them through an amendment in Article
106; in Juxtaposition with other minorities inPakistan like Chris-
tians, Parsis and Hindus, etc.

As a result of the declaration which was the result o f a un-

animous demand o f the Muslims it was not possible for the
Ouadianis to call themselves Muslims or to propagate [slam o f