Why ahmadis are wrong

Please receive my own thanks and the ummah's gratitude in advance for your expected satisfactory answer. I hope that you are always safe and a shelter for seekers of guidance. This is the reason why the Shaykh of al-Azhar and the Mufti of Beirut banned the Holy Book, to which this English translation is attached, from entering Egypt and Syria, preventing the Muslims from being led astray by this distortion.

The Qadiyani sect deviated from Islam by their claim that revelation comes down to their swindler Messiah and his successors. These translations could only be used to invite non-Muslims, who do not know Arabic but know the language of the translation, to [embrace] Islam. Two cases should again be mentioned here. Other scholars also supported this position. This allegation is to some extent justified.

It is right that Muhammad Ali believed in the doctrine of Messiah, or that Ghulam Ahmad was the Promised Messiah, and that revelation was not limited as regards time. Nevertheless, it needs elucidation based on Muhammad Ali's own opinion on these doctrines, as he states that :. Such a clear promise is contained in a saying of the Holy Prophet : " Surely Allah will raise up for this people i.

The analogy of the Israelites, to which the verse refers, points to the appearance of a Messiah among Muslims as a Messiah was raised among the Israelites, and it was on this verse that the claim of the late Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadiyan, the founder of the Ahmad[i]yyah movement, was based. He claimed to be a reformer for the fourteenth century of the Hejira and the Muslim Messiah. During the life of Ghulam Ahmad, Muhammad Ali did not dispute his claim to prophet- hood.

And at the time of the split, Muhammad Ali still spoke of Ghulam Ahmad as a "partial" and "shadowy" prophet. However, he used the word "prophet" in its general sense, and not in its legal sense Friedmann : By though, Muhammad Ali had revised his opinions, claim-. To him, all people have at one time or another received divine revelation. Without the assistance of revelation from God, no people ever could attain to communion with God.

It appears that he uses the word commentary following Imran's usage of the term. But he then uses "interpretative translation", and in the last paragraph he stresses "literal translation". This demonstrates his inconsistency in dealing with Muhammad Ali's work because these three categories have different connotations.

For Rida, commentary and interpretative translation are permissible, but literal translation is not so. He mentions his opinion about it in some of his writings with very little explanation. It could be right or wrong Rida : However, what he means by interpretative translation is not quite clear. I am coming to the end of my discussion. This is undeniable fact. It is because the literal translation is impossible.

Skovgaard-Petersen : Hence, the prohibition of depending upon the translation is because Allah says that Muslims are men of reason 12 : , "Say : It is my way; I call to Allah with knowledge, I and those who follow me". This necessitates the use of reason to understand God's revelation. Allah also states, "Follow what has been revealed to you from your Lord and do not follow, apart from Him, other patrons.

How little you heed the warning". Following the translation means deviating from the imperative and prohibition of this verse. The translation does not deserve this superiority.

Yet what is used in Arabic as metaphor is probably not so in other languages, and vice versa. The translator possibly chooses the wrong meaning of two or more meanings. This composition and style are impossible to be transformed into [other languages] through translation. It has been preserved from any change, deviation, and reduction, and was written as God revealed it. The translation is an other case. Nevertheless not all commentary is permissible.

In this regard, the problem was, in fact, not the nature of Muhammad Ali's work of being a "commentary", but rather his allegedly "deviated" faith. As we have seen from Tjokroaminoto's interest in an Ahmadi translation and commentary, Islamic reform in the Indonesian context did not come solely from the Middle East, and especially Egypt, but also from the Indian sub-continent.

It is important to note also that Aligarh University, which produced such famous non-Ahmadi reformists as Muhammad Iqbal, has also inspired Islamic educational reform in Indonesia. Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. Share Information. Specialty Products. Catalogs, Flyers and Price Lists. Open Access. Open Access for Authors.

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Ahmad claimed to be the Reformer, the Promised Messiah, the mahdi , and the Prophet. These claims, however, agitated the mainstream Muslim community, because Muhammad is believed to be the last Prophet.

In , a new wave of anti-Ahmadi disturbances spread across Pakistan. Put into effect on September 6, , the amendment explicitly deprived Ahmadis of their identity as Muslims. In addition, Ordinance XX prohibited Ahmadis from declaring their faith publicly, propagating their faith, building mosques, or making the call for Muslim prayer.

In short, virtually any public act of worship or devotion by an Ahmadi could be treated as a criminal offense. While Ahmadis consider themselves Muslims, their persecution is wholly legalized, even encouraged, by the Pakistani government. Ahmadi mosques have been burned, their graves desecrated, and their very existence criminalized. Since , Ahmadis have been formally charged in criminal cases including blasphemy for professing their religion.

The offenses charged included wearing an Islamic slogan on a shirt, planning to build an Ahmadi mosque in Lahore, and distributing Ahmadi literature in a public square. While it is difficult to provide an exact figure of the Ahmadiyya population, estimates of around 20 million would be appropriate. Commission on International Religious Freedom, April 30, Commission on International Religious Freedom, Apr.

Department of State. Bangladesh , 45 D. Using the same proportion as in the census, the Ahmadi projection for would be , Assuming only one in four declared themselves as Ahmadis to the Census takers, the size of the community in Pakistan could be projected to be 1,, approximately 1.

In addition to the constraints the amendment placed on Ahmadis, it also called for the nationalization of Christian schools, so that the influence of private Christian groups was radically reduced. In Mujibur Rahman v. Islamist groups, including the Taliban, have repeatedly targeted religious minorities in the country to impose their strict Shariah, or Islamic law, on people. Baseer Naveed, a human rights activist, says that Ahmadis continue to be persecuted and attacked in Pakistan with the full backing of the state.

We see that the Pakistani state continues with its policy of hatred towards religious minorities, which embolden fundamentalists," Naveed told DW. Read more: Pakistan journalism student latest victim of blasphemy vigilantes. Abdus Salam Physics Department. Internationally, Dr.

Salam is known for his outstanding contribution to physics and his groundbreaking work that led to the discovery of the so-called "God Particle," but in Pakistan, where the late Nobel laureate was born, Dr.

Salam is a heretic, whose name has been removed from all text books. Salam's crime was that despite being a genius in the field of science, he was an Ahmadi. Pakistan is not the only Muslim-majority country where Ahmadis face systematic persecution.

In South Asia, Bangladeshi Ahmadis are also discriminated against, whereas the situation is direr in Southeast Asian Muslim nations, particularly in Indonesia. Most of Indonesia's over million Muslims are Sunnis. There are an estimated , Shiites and , Ahmadis who were declared "deviant" by Indonesia's top Islamic body in According to various polls, over 40 percent of those surveyed in Indonesia would not want Shiites or members of the Ahmadi community living in their neighborhood in comparison to Ahmadi leaders in Indonesia complain that members of the community have been intimidated and terrorized since and that their prayers and activities have been banned in many districts.

An especially shocking incident happened in February when 20 Ahmadis were attacked on the Java peninsula by about 1, radicals. Three members died and five were severely injured. Moreover, people who are discriminated against on religious grounds do not seem to be able to turn to the courts for help.

In Pakistan, it is illegal to drink, eat or even smoke in public during Ramadan. You can be sent to jail, heavily fined, or may even be beaten by vigilantes.