Beware of deceitful ‘scholars’, as about Nation of Islam and Ahmadiyya

Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas, In His Own Words

Consolidation of faith through Khilafat

“There is a quake that rattles the world at the death of a Messenger or spiritual leader, and that time is extremely perilous. And God effaces it through a Khalifah and the work is stabilised and realigned through that Khalifah.” (Al Hakam, 14 April 1908; Malfuzat [English], Vol. 10, p. 285)

<< Continued from previous page will be like one who fulfils seventy obligatory duties in another month.

“‘It is the month of endurance, and the reward of endurance is Paradise. It is the month of sympathy, and mutual consolation, and a month in which the believer’s provisions are increased. If someone gives one who has been fasting something with which to break his fast, it will provide forgiveness of his sins and save him from Hell, and he will have a reward equal to his without his reward being diminished in any respect.’

“Some of them remarked to Allah’s Messenger that they did not all have the means to give [food] to the one who had been fasting with which to break his fast, and he replied, ‘God gives this reward to him who gives one who has been fasting some milk mixed with water, or a date, or a drink of water with which to break his fast and anyone who gives a full meal to one who has been fasting will be given a drink from my river Al-Kauthar [River of Abundance] by Allah and will not thirst till he enters Paradise.’

“‘It is a month whose beginning is mercy, whose middle is forgiveness, and whose end is salvation from Hell. If anyone makes things easy for His slave during it, God will forgive him and free him from Hell.’” (Mishkat al-Masabih, Kitab as-Saum, Hadith 1965)

By heeding the profound words of the Holy Prophet Muahmamad, may Allah bestow peace and thousands upon thousands of blessings upon him, we can unlock the true potential of this blessed month, and emerge from it as better, more disciplined, and more faithful Muslims. So let us embrace Ramadan with open hearts, and immerse ourselves in the beauty and majesty of this truly special time.

(Jalees Ahmad, Al Hakam)

Asif M Basit Curator, Ahmadiyya Archive and Research Centre

As the Ahmadiyya Muslim community continues to flourish and to serve Islam in a day and age that can justifiably be called the most challenging in Islam’s history, intrigue about the community has seen an uptick in the recent past.

However, this intrigue and enquiry into this reform sect of Islam are not always encouraged, especially among their own coreligionist Muslims – the latter not recognising the former’s Muslim identity. What once used to be disguised in gimmicks, Muslim scholars in the West have now taken the straightforward and direct approach in warning their youth about the “dangers” posed by the Ahmadiyya to Islam. These scholars, in their desperation, are now failing to hide their jealousy and openly telling the Muslim youth that since the Ahmadiyya are now seen as the face of Islam – through preaching Islam more actively than ever before – they need to be condemned publicly, declaring that Ahmadis are anything but Muslims.

One recent example is a so-called Muslim scholar who is seen giving a stand-up presentation to Muslim youth in attendance, as well as to those watching him on YouTube.

Not worthy of any particular importance, such so-called scholars try to recycle the same old allegations about the Ahmadiyya community and its founder, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as But knowing that these allegations have already lost steam, they try various tactics to resuscitate the soulless body of these low-level allegations.

Clutching at straws, when old allegations burn out

One new tactic is holding an iPhone or the latest Samsung mobile in their hand, looking at it from time to time, and claiming that they are not speaking from hearsay but actual references from original sources of the Ahmadiyya literature. Unfortunately, gone are the days when merely flashing a mobile phone and reading off of it made things sound credible.

If they claim that Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as said that “his book, Tadhkirah, is the revealed book of God”, they fail to provide any reference to this shocking statement. They try to plaster it with an even more shocking lie: “I obtained it from the Ahmadiyya website”. Again, without any reference.

How could there be a reference to a blatantly false statement? The book Tadhkirah – an anthology of the revelations received by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as – was not even published in his lifetime. It was published in book form and with this name many decades afterwards. This aside, did he ever claim his revelations formed any form of scripture to replace the Quran? We would leave the answer to such scholars who can only rob people of their true faith and never accept the truth.

However, such self-styled scholars seem to have realised that all old allegations have burnt out. To blow some air in the sails of their anti-Ahmadiyya campaign, they have tried something novel: coining new stories; which isn’t really novel but quite customary of the opponents.

The Nation of Islam and Ahmadiyya

One such false story that has recently come to the surface is that the Nation of Islam (NOI) was founded by the Ahmadiyya missionaries in America. We all know that what emerged as the Nation of “Islam” couldn’t have been farther from Islam as far as its beliefs and tenets are concerned.

To start with, nothing could be far from the Ahmadiyya Muslim belief, as expounded by the founder Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas, that God has bodily form. Allah, the Islamic name for the One God, has no bodily form. If anything, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas spent thousands of pages refuting the Christian attribution of divinity to the person of Jesus Christ. And for that matter, any other human form of divinity, as seen in his English language tract “Warning to a pretender to divinity” – addressed to John Hugh Smyth-Pigott who had made the claim in 1902. Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas called such a claim “irreverent and extravagant assertions”.

How then could the Ahmadiyya community accept the divinity of Fard Muhammad (WD Fard Muhammad) – the founding father of the Nation of Islam? NOI literature – all the way from Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X, and from Farrakhan to present-day sources – base their belief on Fard Muhammad being God in human-body form.

This alone is enough to invalidate any claims that the Ahmadiyya community could back – or sponsor, as some opponents have taken to suggesting – such a claim that has absolutely nothing to do with Islamic faith; a claim most vehemently detested by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas.

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