Re: Ahmadis in Pakistan
Assalamualaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatahu,
The persecution against Ahmadi's or anyone for that matter is a most hateful crime according according to the Holy Qur'an, which teaches religious tolerance and freedom of conscience.
"...for persecution is worst than killing..." (2:192)
"And fight them until there is no persecution, and religion is professed only for Allah. But if they desist, then remember that no hostility is allowed except against the wrongdoers." (2:194)
"They ask thee about fighting in the Sacred Month. Say, 'Fighting therein is a heinous thing, but to hinder men from the way of Allah, and to be ungrateful to Him, and to hinder men from the Sacred Mosque, and to turn out its people therefrom, is more heinous in the sight of Allah; and persecution is worst than killing.' And they will not cease fighting you until they turn you back from your Faith, if they can. And whoso from among you turns back from his Faith and dies while he is a disbeliever, it is they whose works shall be vain in this world and in the next. These are the inmates of the Fire and therein shall they abide." (2:218)
" And the Messengers indeed have been rejected before thee, but notwithstanding their rejection and persecution they remained patient until Our help came to them. There is none to change the words of Allah. And there have already come to thee some of the tidings of the past Messengers. (6:35)
"And fight them until there is no persecution and religion is wholly to Allah. But if they desist, then surely Allah is Watchful of what they do." (8:40)
" And of men there are some who say, 'We believe in Allah;' but when they are made to suffer in the cause of Allah, they regard the persecution of men as if it were the punishment of Allah. And if help comes from thy Lord, they are sure to say, 'Certainly, we were with you.' Is not Allah best aware of what is in the breasts of His creatures?" (29:11)
This last verse clearly shows that though persecution and tribulation by ay of torture solely due to religious beliefs seems like a punishment from Allah, it is no punishment, but is a trial from Allah, and is the natural order of things, for no Messenger came who was not mocked at.
So those who consider that Ahmadi's should be slapped or what not, should fear Allah, for they have committed a sin worse than that of manslaughter, which is equivaled to that of the mass murder of the whole of humanity in Ch. 5 verse 33.
The Holy Prophet (saw) prophesied in these words about the Muslim Ummah of the latter days:
"There will come a time upon the people when nothing will remain of Islam except its name only and nothing will remain of the Quran except its inscription. Their mosques will be splendidly furnished but destitute of guidance. Their divines will be the worst people under the heaven and strife will issue from and avert to them."
(Mishkatul Masabih, Kitabul Ilm)
"The best century is the one in which I live, then the next century, then the century after that. Then there will spread falsehood at the hands of people who will take pride in their wealth and riches and will grow fat on the earnings of others."
(Tirmidhi & Bukhari, Kitab Al-Shahadat)
As foretold in this tradition of the Holy Prophet, Islam began to decline after the first three centuries of uninterrupted conquests and growing prosperity, till it suffered a very serious check in about 271 A.H. when its graded decline and decay continued till it reached its nadir in the next one thousand years that the reference has been made in the Quranic verse:
"Then shall it go up to Him in a day the duration of which is a thousand years." (32:6)
In another of his sayings, the Holy Prophet, peace be on him, is reported to have said:
"Faith will ascend to the Pleiades and a man of Persian descent will bring it back to earth."
(Sahih Bukhari, Kitab-al Tafseer)
Abdullah bin Amar (RA) relates that the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said "Surely things will happen to my people as happened earlier to Israelites, they will resemble each other like one shoe in a pair resembles the other to the extent that if anyone among the Israelites has openly committed adultery to his mother there will be some who will do this in my Ummah as well, verily the Israelites were divided into 72 *sections but my people will be divided into 73 sections, all of them will be in the fire except one." The companions asked, 'Who are they O Messenger of Allah,' Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said, **"They are those who will be like me and my companions.***"
Other than Tirmidhi, Ibne Maja gives three independent narrations of the same hadith. Talking about the authenticity of this hadith Abu Mansur Abd al-Kahir ibn-Tahir Al-Baghdadi says:
"There are many isnad (independent testimonies) for the tradition dealing with the division of the community. A number of following companions have handed it down as coming from the Prophet (peace be upon him): Anas ibn-Malik, Abu-Hurairah, Abu-l-Darda, Jabir, Abu-Sa'id al-Khidri, Ubai ibn-Ka'b, Abd-Allah ibn-Amr ibn-al-'As, abu-Imamah, Wathilah ibn-al-Aska' and others. It is also handed down that the pious Caliphs mentioned that the community would be divided after them, that one sect only would save itself, and the rest of them would be given to error in this world, and to destruction in the next."
Next i would like to correct joeking in his complete misunderstanding and unintelligent remark and erroneous translation of "Mujjaddid". A Mujjaddid is a Reviver of Religion, and was used by the mouth of the Holy Prophet (saw) himself:
"Verily God will appoint for this Ummat in the beginning of every century, one who will restore for it its faith (Mujjaddid)."
(Abu Dawood, Kitabul Fitan)
*"Every century raise a Reformer from among the Muslims who would revive the faith *(Abu Daud, *Vol.11, p.241;*Mishkat, Kitabul Ilm)."
So your personal interpretation of Mujjaddid holds no weight and is completely nullified and debased as untruth by the above AHadith.
Secondly, about the Prophethood of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad; there is a verse in the Holy Qur'an which declares those who obey Allah and the Holy Prophet (saw) as Prophets or at the status and caliber of the Prophets:
"And Whoso obeys Allah, and this Messenger (saw), shall be among those on whom Allah bestows His favors - namely - the Prophets, the Truthful, the Martyrs, and the Righteous, and an excellenct company are they." (4:70)
"This grace is from Allah, and Allah suffices as One Who is All-Knowing." (4:71)
Do you then dare or attempt to hold back the grace of Allah, which descends on whomsoever of His servants as he pleases? And if every type of Prophethood has indeed come to an end, then what, I ask, is this verse doing in the Holy Qur'an? Why has Almighty Allah exalted the followers of the Holy Prophet (saw) to the status of the Prophets if the Holy Prophet (saw) was the last Prophet in absolute time. The verse should have left out the highest catagory of the Prophets if every type of Prophethood was finished with the appearence of the Holy Prophet (saw). But no, indeed the followers of the Holy Prophet (saw) who are sincere and obedient are like the Prophets of God as the Holy Prophet (saw) declared himself:
"The true divines among my followers will be like the prophets of Israel."
Do people then think that they can withold the prize of prophethood from a true Muslim, while Allah Ta'Alaa has declared them as having the status of Prophets in His everlasting Book, and while the Holy Prophet (saw) has declared such Muslims as the Prophets of Bani Israel? Indeed not, no one has that athority or power, indeed there is no proof in the Holy Qur'an that no kind of Prophet will ever appear after the Holy Prophet (saw), excpet for the phrase 'KhatamanNabiyyeen', which they knowingly missinterpret to meaning simply the Last in time, while the word used is Khatam, meaning seal, and not Khatim, which means last. Also, please my Urdu speaking brothers, we are dealing with an Arabic phrase not an Urdu phrase, do not attempt to translate the Urdu meaning of Khatam in place of the Arabic meaning, thank you.
Reffering to the above Quranic verses, do we not pray repeatedly in our everyday lives:
"Guide us along the straight path, the path of those on whom Thou hast bestowed Thy favors." (1:6-7)
Then what favors and blessings do you ask for if Prophethood is not included?
In chapter 7 verse 36 Allah clearly proclaims that he will continue sending prophets until the Day of Resurrection, the Khatamiyyat of the Holy Prophet (saw) means that with his grand comming, no Prophet can arise after him who will not be of his ummah, who will not follow his Shariah, and that even though prophets may come after the Holy Prophet (saw) no new Law-Bearer can come, the Qur'an is the Last in time of the Divine Laws, and that now no Prophet can appear who is outside of the pale of Islam, those Prophets will be subordinate Prophets to the Holy Prophet (saw) and will be his perfect servants and followers. This is what is meant by the verse 70 in Surah Nisaa.
If you think that the Muslims cannot raise to the status of the Prophets, then you are surely debasing the Ummah of the Holy Prophet (saw) with such hidiousness and ugliness that Satan has made it appear good in your eyes. How can you believe that from the Ummah of Moses (as) countless Prophets were raised among their own followers, yet Islam, whose teachings are infinately superior, cannot concieve even one man who is righteous enough to call a Prophet, what an insult indeed! Why should we be so deprived of Guidance and righteousness that we need to borrow a Prophet from the Ummah and Shariah of Moses (as), while declaring that no Muslim is pure enough to be called a Prophet or to be appointed as one. Is this not honoring and preffering the Ummah of Moses (as) over the Ummah of the Holy Prophet (saw), and is this not contrary to the above Quranic verses?
Prophethood can be achieved and bestowed by Allah, but only to those who are followers of the greatest lightbearer, whose brilliance radiates the office of Prophethood upon his followers, that is, the Holy Prophet Muhammad Mustaffaa, the Seal and Best of all the Prophets.
Remember that Allah praises the Muslims in the Qur'an in the words:
"You are the best people raised for the good of mankind." (3:111)
How is it possible then that with this statement of Allah and our prayer from Surah Fatihah, we still cannot achieve the rank of Prophethood, while no Prophet before the Holy Prophet (saw) had the pleasure of following the greatest Prophet, who braught the eternal teaching, yet was able to reach the status of Prophethood, while those who do abide by and obey the Highest Prophet of Allah, cannot even enjoy the status of subordinate Prophethood, which is bestowed only by following the Holy Prophet of Islam (saw).
If this is indeed the case then what is the difference or distinguishing blessings upon the followers of the Holy Prophet (saw), to that of the followers of other Prophets?
Alas, we find in the Holy Quran the verse:
"And those who belive in Allah and His Messengers, they are the Truthful and the Martyrs in the presence of their Lord." (57:20)
This is the distinguishing factor which many Muslims choose to ignore. Read this with 4:70 and you'll see that no other Ummah has been blessed with the continuation of prophethood save that of the Ummah of the most beloved of God, Hadhrat Ahmad Mujtaba (saw).
In fact there are two verses which speak of the comming of a subordinate prophet who would appear among the Ummah of Muhammad (saw), one of which is interestingly in the same Surah as the verse which declares the Holy Prophet (saw) as Khatamannabiyyeen, as if to resolve the issue once and for all:
"**[33:8] **And call to mind when We took from the Prophets their covenant, and from thee, and from Noah and Abraham, and Moses and Jesus, son of Mary, and We indeed, took from them a solemn covenant;"
**"[33:9] **That Allah may question the truthful about their truthfulness. And for the disbelievers He has prepared a painful punishment."
And what is that Covenant that Allah took from the prophets and even from the Holy Prophet (saw)? The answer is undoubtedly in this verse:
"**[3:82] **And remember the time when Allah took a covenant from the people through the Prophets, saying, 'Whatever I give you of the Book and Wisdom and then there comes to you a Messenger, fulfilling that which is with you, you shall believe in him and help him.' And He said, 'Do you agree, and do you accept the responsibility which I lay upon you in this matter?' They said, 'We agree.' He said, 'Then bear witness and I am with you among the witnesses.'"
**"[3:83] **Now whoso turns away after this, then, surely, those are the transgressors."
Again this 'covenant' is reffered to in 5:71
"Surely We took a covenant from the Children of Israel, and We sent Messengers to them. But every time there came to them a Messenger with what their hearts desired not, they treated some as liars, and some they sought to kill."
It is clear that just as Allah took a covenant from the earlier peoples he alo took this covenant from the Holy Prophet (saw), which is that Messengers will appear from among themselves.
What clearer evidence do you need from the Noble Qur'an?
JazakAllah