Today we will see who are these Ahmadiya Group?
With regard to the reader’s time, unnecessary details will be avoided. Here is presented brief excerpts from the Ahmadiya books and leave the judgment to the reader. Comments will be included as necessary. The caption of this writing is borrowed from the following couplet of Sir Allama Iqbal:
"Like the leaf of Hashish is the prophesy,
That invokes not Power and Majesty"
At the outset the author wishes to remind the reader that according to the Qur’an, “There is no compulsion in religion.” Islam does not permit violence or aggression under any circumstances. This book is intended to be an ideological discussion only so that our younger generation, non-Muslims, and even Ahmadis themselves, can make informed decisions regarding Ahmadiyat.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was born in the nineteenth century in the town of Qadian, at present in the Indian part of Punjab. His year of birth is not certain, but it is gathered that he was born sometime between the years 1835 and 1840. He started as an orthodox Mulla (a cleric) and held debates with Hindus and Christians. Around 1890, he started posing himself as a mystic and laid pretenses to clairvoyance (Kashf and Ilham in Sufi parlance). Then he claimed being a Mujaddid (a revivalist) of the new 14th Hijrah century. Up another rung of the ladder and he announced that he was the awaited reformer, the Imam Mehdi. He continued his climb to new “heights”. The prevalent belief that Jesus Christ (the Messiah) will return was current amongst Muslims then, just as it is current today. The Mirza proclaimed that he was the Messiah whose coming back has been promised by God. In keeping with this claim, he invented for himself the title of the Promised Messiah.
While Thomas Edison was changing the world with his inventions (1888), the Mirza was busy with his own verbal innovations. For example, he professed to be a Zilli Nabi. Zilli denotes something unreal, a mere pretension, it also indicates a shadow. Not content with this, he added Baroozi, which signifies a virtual image, a look-alike, or a reflection. Much later, he declared that he was a prophet in his own right.
He contrived new meanings for the Qur’anic term “Khataman Nabieen”, which, in Islamic terms, denotes the finality of the prophethood. Muhammad, the Exalted was the last of the prophets and there would be no prophet after him. According to the Qur’an, the message to mankind has been perfected in this Last Book of God. The Seal of Finality, Mirza misconstrued to be a Stamp of Approval from Prophet Muhammad himself.
His imagination wandered further:
"I am Muhammad".
"I am Muhammad incarnate."
“I too am the recipient of Wahi (word of God) and that is also the Quran.”
(We shall present some specimens of that “Wahi” or “word of God” later).
These claims created agitation among people in general, and the clergy in particular. To counter that pressure, the Mirza adopted guerrilla tactics. When the pressure of public indignation mounted, he would chicken out and retract his words. When there was some slack in that pressure he would spring back. These guerrilla tactics lasted till the very end of his life (he died in Lahore in 1908 CE).
Mirza Ghulam lived between 68 to 73 years and spent his life promoting his scheme by making claims of divine support, denouncing his detractors in abusive, obscene terms, making threats of divine retribution, whining, interpreting dreams and announcing hit and miss prophecies.
II. Philosophy of Mirza Ghulam
What is Hashish? Hashish is Marijuana that comes from the hemp plant. Smoking or drinking Hashish causes intoxication. Why did Allama Iqbal term Ahmadiyat as hashish? The answer becomes evident when we read the sayings of Mirza Ghulam:
It is "Haram" now to fight and shed blood for the "Deen".
Please note that Jihad, or fighting for Deen does not include aggression.
(Due to my teachings) hundreds of thousands of people gave up filthy ideas (of Jihad). (Sitara-e-Qaisariya p.3)
Submission to the British Government is enjoined upon the Muslims in India and 'Jihad' is 'Haram'. (Tableegh-e-Risalat vol. 3 p.196)
The volume of what I have written in denunciation of ‘Jihad’ and submission to the British Government would be enough to fill 50 cabinets. (Sitara-e-Qaisariya p. 3)
Note: Contrast this with the Mirza’s own verdict that whosoever rejects even one commandment of the Quran is a non-believer and an infidel!
Allama Iqbal had this to say about this crusade of Mirza Ghulam:
The Moses who, in stealth,
Would submit to power of the Pharaoh,
Is a curse upon his Israelites.
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