The above picture appeared in at least two Urdu newspapers on April 12. I captured it from Hamara Maqsad (New Delhi). Yes, the man sporting a long beard and angelic white robes is waving a sword. No, he is not a Saudi prince ready to launch into their traditional sword dance. He is a humbler being, but he does claim a link to some royalty, for he calls himself “the Shahi Imam of Ludhiana.” His name is Habibur Rahman Sani Ludhianvi. Among the grinning men standing beside him is his brother Atiqur Rahman Ludhianvi, who is also described as the “Punjab unit president of the Indian Muslim Council.” The two are the grandsons of a well-known and respected Ahrar leader of the past, Maulana Habibur Rahman Ludhianvi, and are described in the newspaper as celebrating the successful conclusion of their month-long effort labeled as the Movement to Protect the End of Prophethood, at a grand rally in Ludhiana on Sunday, the 10th of April, attended by several thousand to over one million Muslims, depending on which report in the same paper one wished to believe. Fourteen resolutions were unanimously approved. Of them the following six dealt with those Indian Muslims who may or may not call themselves Ahmadis but who are contemptuously referred to by their antagonists as Qadianis, after the birthplace of their founder in the Punjab: