Spreading hatred agaisnt Ahmadis

Spreading hatred against Ahmadiyya Community

The Islamic Leader [Mullahs] in Pakistan have a great hatred against Ahmadiyya Community, and they are always preaching this hatred, discrimination and persecution against Ahmadiyya Community. After the attacks on Ahmadiyya Mosques in Lahore, killing nearly 90 Ahmadis and wounding 125 innocent Ahmadis, one political leader issued a statement saying Ahmadis “our brothers and sisters” and “an asset for Pakistan”. The Islamic clergies could not bear this statement and started protests against the statement and demanding him to apology on his statement otherwise he will be considered non-Muslim and infidel. Read below news for further information on this issue.

Nawaz Sharif kafir? No, khariji mullah kafir

Khariji mullahs threaten Nawaz Sharif with fatwa of kufr (apostasy) in retribution of his statement on Ahmadis; they also term Ahmadi massacre in Lahore as an Ahmadi conspiracy against Islam and Pakistan.

Pakistan’s opposition leader and chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Group (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif has been censured by clerics of different religious parties as Mr Sharif spoke in friendly terms about the Ahmadi sect.

Mr Sharif was expressing solidarity with the Ahmadis who came under a bloody attack by terrorists of Taliban / Sipah-e-Sahaba on Friday May 28, 2010, leaving over 90 of them dead and scores of others injured.

In a statement on Saturday June 06, 2010, in Lahore, Mr Sharif expressed commiseration toward the Ahmadi community, calling them “our brothers and sisters” and an “asset for Pakistan”.

This set orthodox Muslim clerics on fire since mullahs were able to pressurize Pakistan parliament in 1974 to declare Ahmadis as official non-Muslims, and many mullahs and their followers look on them as “traitors”.

Mr Sharif at once came under verbal attack from the Wafaqul Madaris al Arabia, a madrassah association of Deobandi sect, which stated that Mr Sharif should be ashamed of calling Ahmadis as our brothers. The Wafaqul Madaris al Arabia statement mentioned Ahmadis as “traitors” and “infidels” and stressed that they could not be the brothers of Muslims. It warned Mr. Sharif to revoke his statement.

Other religious parties also expressed resentment over Mr. Sharif’s statement. Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) president Maulana Sami-ul-Haq even threatened that his party would launch a countrywide protest if Mr. Sharif did not retract his statement.

In the latest development, a leading mullah of India declared that if Nawaz Sharif does not revoke his statement on Ahamadis, he will be deemed an infidel. Mufti Habibur Rehman Ludhianwi advised Nawaz Sharif to repent for calling Qadianis (Ahmadis) as his brothers and sisters. Mufti said that Qadianis are non Mulsims and no Muslim is allowed to have any relationship with them. He also said that if Nawaz Sharif did not repent, he will be considered as an apostate.

What is Nawaz Sharif’s crime (or sin)?

He declared Ahmadis as our brothers and sisters and as an asset for the country.

Why are mullahs upset?

Because they are rabid dogs; their only aim is to create hatred and mischief (fasaad) in Pakistan and the wider world.

Here are some examples of mullahs’ reaction to Nawaz Sharif’s statement:

Nawaz should seek pardon for giving pro-Qadianis statement: Wafaq-ul-Madaris

ISLAMABAD: The religious leaders of the Wafaq-ul-Madaris Arabia on Sunday said that Mian Nawaz Sharif should not give pro-qadiyanis statements, as the Qadiyanis are disbelievers of the last Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) and seditious to Islam.

Religious scholars including Maulana Salim Ullah Khan, Maulana Qari Hanif Jalandhari, Maulana Dr. Abdul Razzaq and Maulana Anwar-Ul-Haq while expressing their reactions against the statement of Mian Nawaz Sharif regarding Qadianis said that he should not betray the masses for his political interests and should request pardon to Allah.

Declaring Qadianis an asset, who are the traitors of Islam and the country, reflects ignorance of Nawaz Sharif, they added.

They said that the Qadianis are disbelievers of the finality of Prophet hood of Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) and the enemies of Muslims, adding that they cannot be the brothers of Muslim till they do not embrace Islam and seek pardon for their past to Allah. The Qadiyanis always subverted the constitution, parliament and judiciary of Pakistan and they did not miss any opportunity to harm Islam and Pakistan.

The religious scholars said that Nawaz Sharif should withdraw his dubious statement and seek pardon from Almighty Allah.

Sharif’s statement on Ahmadis angers clerics

June 07, 2010

Wafaqul Madaris al Arabia asks PML-N chief to retract his statement

ISLAMABAD: Top leaders of an organisation representing Deobandi madrassas across the country have reprimanded PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif for calling members of the Ahmadiyya community as “brothers” of Muslims.

“Sharif should be ashamed of calling them brothers of Muslims,” said a statement issued by the Wafaqul Madaris al Arabia (WMA).

Sharif said in Lahore on Saturday that Ahmadis were as important citizens of Pakistan as people from other religions and called them an asset.

He made the statement to express solidarity with the Ahmadiyya community following last month’s two synchronised attacks on their places of worship in Lahore which claimed more than 80 lives with many more injured.

In a statement issued here on Sunday, leaders of the Wafaqul Madaris al Arabia – an umbrella organisation of more than 12,000 Deobandi madrassas – called Ahmadis “traitors”.

WMA leaders Maulana Salimullah Khan and Qari Hafeez Jahalindri urged Sharif to retract his statement and advised him not to “defy religion for petty political gains.”

The statement termed the Ahmadis as “infidels” and said that they could not be brothers of Muslims until they convert to Islam again.

Ahmadis were declared a minority under the 1973 constitution – a move that some people believe intensified hatred against Ahmadis.

Published in the Express Tribune, June 7th, 2010

Ripples in political, religious circles

Sharif’s comments on the Ahmedis drew sharp criticism from religious parties like Khatm-e-Nabuwat Movement, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and Jamaat-e-Islami.

Maulana Ilyas Chinauti, the head of KNM, which has been at the forefront of the movement against Ahmedis,said Sharif should seek “forgiveness from Allah and the people of Pakistan for calling the Ahmedis his brothers”.

“Ahmedis are traitors and they deserve no sympathy whatsoever. Nawaz Sharif is trying to please the US by showing sympathy for Ahmedis,” he said. Sharif had hurt the feeling of all Muslims and KNM would stage protests till he apologised, he said.

JUI president Maulana Samiul Haq said his party would launch a countrywide protest if Sharif did not take back his statement.

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Farid Paracha said it was unfortunate that the PML-N had started toeing the line of the US. Paracha said Ahmedis could never be “brothers or friends” of Muslims and a “true Muslim must not develop any relation with Ahmedis”.

Protest staged against Qadianis

PESHAWAR: Aalami Majlis-Tahaffuz-e-Khatam-e-Nabuwwat staged protest outside the Peshawar Press Club on Monday, asking the government to take action against Qadianis.

Carrying banners and placards, the activists chanted slogans against Qadianis and asked the Pakistan Muslim League chief Mian Nawaz Sharif to clarify his position on his recent statement.

Criticising Qadianis, the speaker termed them as enemies of Islam and the state. They asked the government to take action against them for their blasphemous activities.

They reiterated to render sacrifices of their lives to protect the honour and respect of their holy prophet (PBUH) and the holy Quran and not allow anyone to continue insulting their religion and prophets.

JTI activists protest sacrilegious caricatures: Jamiat Talaba-e-Islam activists staged demonstration against the blasphemous caricatures and reiterated their commitment to render sacrifices of their lives to protect sanctity of the Holy Prophet (PBUH).

Carrying banners and placards, the activists gathered outside the Peshawar Press Club and chanted slogans against anti-Islamic forces and urged the government to sever diplomatic ties with Western countries.

Attack on Ahmadis was a conspiracy: MTKN

LAHORE: Leaders of Muttahida Tehrik-e-Khatm-e-Nabuwat said on Wednesday that Lahore attacks were a conspiracy to repeal laws against Ahmadis, reported BBC Urdu.

Maulana Zahidul Rashdi, founding member of the organisation, read a joint statement at the meeting’s conclusion that said that the attack on Ahmadis is being used to create suspicions about the concept of Khatm-e-Nabuwat i.e. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) being the last prophet.

The meeting that took place in Muslim Town, Lahore, included members of 13 religious and political organistations including JUI-F, Jamaat-ud-Dawa and 11 others.

Just a few days back, religious leaders had shown their contempt for Nawaz Sharif’s statement where he referred to the Ahmadi community as brothers.

‘Attack on Ahmedis conspiracy to repeal laws against them’

LAHORE: A gathering of the leaders of 13 religious and political parties in Lahore claimed that the attack on Ahmedis on May 28 was part of a conspiracy to repeal the laws against them, BBCUrdu reported.

The meeting was held in an office of the Majlis Ahrar Islam in Lahore’s Muslim Town. The parties concluded that a conspiracy was in place to debate the laws against Ahmedis, the report said.

Maulana Zahidul Rashdi, who is a founding member of the Muttahida Tehrik-i-Khatm-i-Nabuwat and also the Secretary-General of the Pakistan Shariat Council, read the joint statement at the meeting’s conclusion: The attack on Ahmedis is being used as an excuse to generate suspicions regarding the concept of khatm-i-nabuwat.

The gathering was attended by leaders of the Jamaat-i-Islami, Jamiat-i-ulema-i-Islam Fazlur Rahman group, Jamaatud Dawa and Markazi Jamaat-i-Ahl-i-Sunnat among others.

During the meeting, Maulana Ilyas Chinioti, a member of the PML-N and the Punjab provincial assembly, condemned Nawaz Sharif’s statement in which he had sympathised with the Ahmedis and called them his brothers.

The meeting’s participants demanded that Nawaz Sharif immediately withdraw his statement.

http://criticalppp.org/lubp/archives/12705

Religious Leaders Imply Ahmadis not Victims

First they condemned the attacks. Religious parties got together after the May 28 attacks on the Ahmedi places of worship and termed them un-Islamic (while tempering their criticism with some conspiracy theories). The Newsreported this:

Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Syed Munawwar Hasan termed the attacks on the Youm-e-Takbeer a conspiracy to trigger a civil war in the country and justify the US interference in the country. He said Islam strongly prohibited persecuting minorities and causing any harm to their worship places. He said the minorities in the country had always been secure and Islam made it a state responsibility to protect them.

Of course, everyone knows that minorities have NOT always been secure in Pakistan, but at least the religious parties agreed that the attacks on the Ahmedi community “were uncalled for and condemnable.”

But clearly it was false sympathy and crocodile tears. The view that the attacks were also, as reported by The News, a foreign “conspiracy to malign the country in the world in order to put more pressure [on Pakistan] regarding a change in the blasphemy laws” came with a sickening twist yesterday.

A BBC Urdu article reported on a Lahore meeting of leaders of the Muttahida Tehrik-i-Khatm-i-Nabuwat where the attendees concluded that the May 28 attacks on Ahmedis were part of a conspiracy to repeal the laws against them and challenge the finality of the Prophethood. There is an inherent insinuation that Ahmedis were an active part of the conspiracy; that Ahmedis hired terrorists to kill other Ahmedis in order to garner attention because they want to remake Islam. So, Ahmedis are not the real victims here?

This is like 9/11 conspiracy theorists: Americans killed Americans to launch a crusade against Islam.

Further, a Dawn.com report referencing the BBC article said that “the gathering was attended by leaders of the Jamaat-i-Islami, Jamiat-i-ulema-i-Islam Fazlur Rahman group, Jamaatud Dawa and Markazi Jamaat-i-Ahl-i-Sunnat among others” and that “Maulana Ilyas Chinioti, a member of the PML-N and the Punjab provincial assembly, condemned Nawaz Sharif’s statement in which he had sympathised with the Ahmadis and called them his brothers.”

Maulana Chinioti seems to be openly preaching that non-Muslims are lesser humans: only certain Pakistanis who are brutally massacred are worthy of pity. Our religious leaders believe Allah to be the most compassionate and merciful (and expect Him to show compassion towards them) but do they not believe they have a duty to love and show compassion in their lives (or even try to show compassion) to all people of all faiths. The people killed and injured on May 28 were innocent people, harming no one, only kneeling before God in peace. What about the verse from the Quran that says “killing one innocent person is regarded as the equivalent to killing all of mankind?”

The US, Israel and India (and whatever other foreign agents are at work) do not have to do anything to “malign the country in the world.” These religious and political ‘leaders’ are doing a fine job themselves.

http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2010/06/religious-leaders-imply-ahmedis-not-victims/

http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1100964764&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20100609

http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1100964765&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20100609

Are Ahmadis Muslims?

Ahmadiyya Community is suffering through a very severe persecution and discrimination in many Muslim countries. Which is totally against True Islamic teachings, the Holy Quran states: “There is no compulsion in religion”, but these so-called Muslims are not acting upon this absolutely clear and full of wisdom Islamic teaching, which gives full freedom and liberty to every human being to believe and practice the religion of his own choice, without any compulsion, force, violence, discrimination and persecution.

Most of the Muslim Countries do not recognize us as Muslims; they say all Ahmadis are non-Muslims. What a strange belief they have! Who are they to judge the faith of some one? If someone says I am Muslim, we have to accept him as Muslim. Because religion is a personal matter of someone, so who we are to judge others? There is no one to judge others faith.

But we Ahmadis believe that every human being has the right to practice a religion of his own choice, and belong to any religion. These Muslims are only raising allegations against us but have no proof from the Holy Quran, the main source of Islamic teachings, still we have great respect for them. But we have proofs to prove ourselves Muslims. In the Islamic history once during a battle a companion of the Prophet Muhammad (saw) grabbed an enemy and when he was about to kill him he said I believe in Allah and the Messenger, and I declare myself a Muslim and he read the Kallima, the declaration to believe in God and the Messenger (saw). I am quoting this incident below, so that everyone can decide easily that faith is a personal matter of someone, and no one else has the right to declare others that they are not what they believe.

There is one incident from the history of Islam where Usamah bin Zaidra killed a man in an altercation, who used to repeatedly attack Muslims. Just when Usamah bin Zaidra was about to kill him, the man recited the kalimah. Usamahra killed the man despite this. Usamah bin Zaidra relates:

When I mentioned this incident to the Holy Prophetsa, he asked, ‘Did you kill him even though he said la ilaha illAllah [there is none worthy of worship except Allah]?’ I explained that he had only done so fearing my weapon. The Holy Prophetsa said, ‘Did you tear open his heart to see what it truly says or does not say?’ The Holy Prophetsa repeated this question over and over again: did you tear his heart open and look inside of it. (Sahih Muslim, Kitab-ul-Iman)

Another hadith relates that he said:

Why did you not open his heart to see if the kalimah was in it or not?

The Holy Prophet Muhammadsa never himself claimed to know what is in the heart of others. He never claimed to know whether someone believes in the kalimah or not, nor did he allow his followers to do so. The mullah of today is contradicting this example, and therefore claiming to be the Knower of the Seen and the Unseen and assuming a rank higher than that of the Prophetsa of Islam and his Companionsra.

In another narration of this hadith the words are slightly different. It relates that when Hadrat Usamah bin Zaidra admitted, ‘O Prophet of God, he said the kalimah fearing my sword.’ The reply came, ‘He read la ilaha illAllah and you still killed him. When la ilaha illAllah will bear witness against you on the Day of Judgment, how will you answer?’ Hadrat Usamahra replied, ‘O Prophet of God, seek forgiveness for me,’ to which the Holy Prophet Muhammadsa said once again, ‘When la ilaha illAllah bears witness against you on the Day of Judgment, how will you answer?’ Hadrat Usamahra relates that the Holy Prophet Muhammadsa would say nothing apart from this. He repeated, ‘When la ilaha illAllah bears witness against you on the Day of Judgment, how will you answer?’

What is the difference between Ahmadi Muslims and other Muslims?

Ahmadi Muslims follow the same Holy Scripture the Quran as other Muslims. The key difference is that Ahmadi Muslims believe that the Promised Messiah (also referred to as the Mahdi in some texts) of the latter days has arrived and he established the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in 1889. It is a revivalist movement that has no new religious laws or teachings as it seeks to rejuvenate the true Islam as taught by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw). Other Muslims are still waiting for a reformer to come.

As with all other Muslims, Ahmadi Muslims believe in the ‘Five Pillars of Islam’, and the ‘Six Articles of Faith’. They follow the same Holy Scripture (The Holy Qur’an), and accept that Islam is the final and perfect religion for mankind. They also believe in Prophet Muhammad(saw) as Khataman Nabiyyeen (the ‘Seal of the Prophets’) as he was the one who was the best model for mankind who brought God’s final and perfect message for mankind.

Ahmadi Muslims also follow the Islamic sources of guidance and jurisprudence– which is sourced from three main authorities:

The Holy Qur’an;

The Sunnah (practice of the Holy Prophet (saw)); and

The Hadith (sayings of the Holy Prophet(saw)

Despite this abundance of guidance Muslims, like followers of all religions before them, were destined to drift away from the true teachings of Islam. This decay was to be followed by the revival of Islam through the messiah of the latter days as prophesied by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw). So whilst all Muslims expect a messiah to appear it is only the question of the identity and acceptance of the messiah that distinguishes Ahmadi Muslims from all other Muslims.

In some Hadith the messiah is referred to as ‘Jesus son of Mary’ and in others he is referred to as ‘Al-Mahdi’.

It is interesting to note that there are also similar such prophecies in other religions that tell of a messiah who was to appear in the ‘latter days’; for example, Christians are awaiting the second advent of Jesus(as).

Ahmadi Muslims believe that the messiah who was promised has come and that he was a single person who fulfilled all the prophecies relating to such a messiah not just in Islam but also in all religions. This was to be a unifying factor for all humanity and a means of uniting people under Islam, as it is the perfect religion for man.

Ahmadi Muslims believe that the Promised Messiah was Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) who was born in Qadian, India and under Divine guidance he established the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in 1889. The community seeks to revive the same spirit and understanding of Islam that existed at the time of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw).

Some other Muslims on the other hand believe that the Promised Messiah has not yet arrived and that when he does he will be the very same Jesus Son of Mary who was sent to the Jews over 2000 years earlier as the Messiah. They believe that he ascended bodily to heaven and that he will return to earth bodily as a sign signifying his second advent. They further believe that he will slaughter all the pigs on earth and break all crosses. According to them he will also force everyone to accept Islam.

Ahmadi Muslims believe that such prophecies are metaphorical in nature. So, for example, the Messiah was not to force people to accept Islam, but rather the force of his arguments, reasoning and spiritual insight would demonstrate the truth of Islam and attract people to Islam.