Ghulam Mohammad Khan

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When power is misused to silence truth, the sword of heaven does not remain still.

In 1948, at the United Nations General Assembly, Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia, then a young royal diplomat, witnessed a defining moment for the Muslim world. Before the global community, Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan (ra), Pakistan’s first Foreign Minister, boldly defended Palestine and stood as the sole voice of the Muslim Ummah when others remained silent. Even Prince Faisal admired the clarity and conviction with which Zafrullah Khan spoke.

But fate would soon test that admiration.

In February 1974, now as King, Faisal visited Pakistan to attend the Second Islamic Summit Conference in Lahore. There, surrounded by world leaders like Anwar Sadat of Egypt, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan, a turning point unfolded in Muslim political history.

Amid increasing pressure from religious hardliners and under Bhutto’s government, Pakistan’s National Assembly passed the Second Constitutional Amendment, declaring Ahmadis to be non-Muslims. It was a devastating blow to religious freedom and especially painful because Sir Zafrullah Khan, the same person who once advocated for the Ummah, belonged to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Furthermore, Faisal was one of the architects of this heinous move against the Ahmadiyya Community.

What followed was sobering.

In 1975, just a year later, King Faisal was assassinated by his own nephew. And one by one, those who stood as towering figures of the Islamic Summit met similar tragic ends:

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (hanged in 1979)

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (assassinated in 1975)

Anwar Sadat (gunned down in 1981)

Muammar Gaddafi (killed brutally in 2011)

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General Zia-ul-Haq, another great servant of Islam

President of Pakistan from 78 until Aug 17, 1988.

Enacted Ordinance XX in 1984 targeting Ahmadis.

Prohibited Ahmadis from practising religion openly.

Died in a plane crash on August 17, 1988.

Injustice against the righteous does not go unnoticed. Divine retribution moves unseen, yet exact.

“And Allah is swift in reconing” (Quran 3:19)

Let history bear witness: when power is misused to silence truth, the sword of heaven does not remain still.