Salam, I have a question to my brothers and sisters on this board. Where do all the allegations that people wrote in this thread come from?
I'm still really new to this, but alhamdulillah, during my leisure time recently I have been able to study some of the Ahmadi teachings ( That is, If you can call researching on the Internet "studying" LOL). So along with reading, I also tried to find some videos on youtube. There was this one Video I watched and it was from a source that doesn't belong to Ahmadis. I think it was from a Pakistani channel called ARY. In that video a scholar called "Dr. Israr Ahmad" was praising Mirza Ghulam Ahmad for defending Islam against Arya Samaj and Christian Missionaries of his time. And that was because he was pretty much the only person around who had not only great knowledge on Islam, but also other religions and it's scriptures. Now what I'd like to know is, how do people come up with allegations such as the British Installing him to confuse Muslims, when It was him who actually defended Islam against Christians who used to call the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) all kind of names? It just doesn't make any sense to me.
Edit: Someone else also said that Ahmadis named themselves after Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, but doesn't "Ghulam Ahmad" mean Servent of Ahmad? Ahmad being one of the names of our beloved Prophet (PBUH)?
So doesn't Ahmadi actually mean "Follower of Ahmad" i.e. follower of Muhammad (PBUH)?
Subhan Allah people. Wouldn't it be appropriate If we'd actually try to learn about something (even If we don't like it), before we can actually "criticize" it?