ISRAEL MISSION
The Ahmadiyya Mission in Israel is situated in Haifa at Mount Karmal. We have a mosque there, a Mission House, a library, a book depot, and a school. The mission also brings out a monthly, entitled Al- Bushra which is sent out to thirty different countries accessible through the medium of Arabic. Many works of the Promised Massih have been translated into Arabic through this mission.
In many ways this Ahmadiyya Mission has been deeply affected by the Partition of what formerly was called Palestine. The small number of Muslims left in Israel derive a great deal of strength from the presence of our mission which never misses a chance of being of service to them. Some time ago, our missionary had an interview with the Mayor of Haifa, when during the discussion on many points, he offered to build for us a school at Kababeer, a village near Haifa, where we have strong and 2052well- established Ahmadiyya community of Palestinian Arabs. He also promised that he would come to see our missionary at Kababeer, which he did later, accompanied by four notables from Haifa. He was duly received by members of the community, and by the students of our school, a meeting having been held to welcome the guests. Before this return he entered his inpressions in the Visitors' Book.
Another small incident, which would give readers some idea of the position our mission in Israel occupies, is that in 1956 when our missionary Choudhry Muhammad Sharif, returned to the Headquarters of the movement in Pakistan, the President of Israel sent word that he (our missionary) should she him before embarking on the journey back; Choudhry Muhammad Sharif utilized the opportunity to present a copy of the German translation of the Holy Quran to the President, which he gladly accepted. This interview and what transpired at it was widely reported in the Israeli Press, and a brief account was also broadcast on the radio. (Our Foreign Missions)
(by Mirza Mubarak Ahmad)
یہودیوں اور قادیانیوں کے نظریاتی مماثلت اور اشتراک کا تجزیہ کرتے ہوئے آج سے ۲۸سال قبل علامہ اقبال نے کہا تھا کہ ’’مرزائیت اپنے اندر یہودیت کے اتنے عناصر رکھتی ہیں کہ گویا یہ تحریک ہی یہودیت کی طرف رجوع ہے۔‘‘
(حرف اقبال ص۱۲۳)
مگر ۱۹۳۶ء میں تو یہ ایک نظری بحث تھی۔ جس پر رائے زنی کی گنجائش ہوسکتی تھی۔ لیکن بعد میں علم ونظر کے دائرہ سے لے کر سعی وعمل کے میدان میں دونوں یعنی قادیانیت اور صیہونت کا باہمی اشتراک اور تماثل ایک بدیہی حقیقت کی شکل میں سامنے آیا۔