Ahmadiyya

Dear Mirza Masroor Sahib,

Assalamaolaikum,

I’m really getting tired of constant, patient debating, with no real answers, just the incessant twisting and turning, ducking and diving, running and hiding. I’ve tried to ask your followers questions in the wonderful ahmedi.org forum, but when confronted with the real issues, they run away! Why?

Just answer the questions head-on!! Please! The real questions! The real issues! But no - with you and some of your well-meaning, but haplessly misguided followers, it’s always a case of picking up the little bones like the esoteric ilham about some August date in 1908 - I mean who cares? What about the real stuff?

1. Why did MGA back the Boer War? No prophet would have backed the death of tens of thousands of children in concentration camps. Just answer this please. None of the others really matter, but this is a biggie.
2. MGA had a “revelation” that he’d die in Mecca or Medina. He died in Lahore. And you insult me by trying to tell me that Lahore means Mecca or Medina. Come on! Enough of this nonsense!
3. MGA had a “revelation” that he’d marry a widow. “Note it”. I did. “Wait for it”. I did. It still hasn’t happened. Oh - and there’s no such thing as a heavenly nikkah. Remember the stuff about “prophecies” and “touchstones” and “liars” and “impostors”?? Note it. Wait for it…
4. You’ve ordered your followers to disengage from the Internet. (Apologies to those Lahoris who have split their sect into another sect who don’t follow the “khalifa”). Yet they persist in engagement, even though you are “appointed by Allah” and are his “vicegerent on earth”. And when you are asked about it, you don’t answer. Is it that difficult?
5. MGA had a revelation that Allah SWT “praises him” (MGA). What? Come on. You have tried to defend this. And I’m afraid you’ve fallen short. By about half a dozen parsecs. Allah SWT alone is worthy of praise!
6. MGA prescribed tonic wine for illness, and for all I know, took it himself. RasulAllah SAW said “it is not a medicine, it is a sickness”. “Second advent”? Of whom exactly?
7. MGA plagiarised his theory of Isa’s (AS) death to faciliate his own incremental claims to Messiahship and eventually, full-blown-second-advent-of-Muhammad (SAW)-hood. Or did he even go on to claim godhead? Oh yeah, he did. Do you believe any of this?
8. Allah SWT warned us not to split our religion into sects. What is Ahmadiyyat? And Haqiqat Pasand? And Janfah? And Lahoris? And so on and on and on? You’re having a laugh, right?
9. Allah perfected our deen in the lifetime of RasulAllah SAW. Do we really need a self-appointed-prophet after the seal is closed to tell us about The Book that we already know about?
10. Tell us about the eclipses. Again. Go on. Just for fun. Let’s clear this up, it really is quite simple! The hadith is weak. The weak hadith isn’t even attributed to RasulAllah SAW. That weak hadith talked of an event that hasn’t happened since the beginning of time. Double eclipses have been happening in Ramadan every 22 years since the beginning of our planetary system. There have been claimants in that time. So go on, tell me about this pathetic scam again? Please?
11. MGA called everyone who didn’t follow him “kaafir”. You want to be called Muslim, yet reserve the right to call everyone else non-Muslim. Erm, please explain this to me, so that I can understand. And try and do a better job than Mirza Nasir Sahib did in 1974. Please?
12. Remind us, who won the debate in 1974?
13. Explain to me how Bahishti Maqbara is anything other than a higher rate tax bracket in jama’at that fraudulently offers heaven without Allah SWT’s intervention?

While you’re at it, please tell me about chanda. And why it’s given more importance than zakah? And tell me about jalsa, and why it’s given more importance than hajj? And tell me why your office bearers talk about chanda more than they do about salah, the only fundamentally important aspect of Islam? And while you’re evading all the important questions by taking potshots at RasulAllah SAW or the Holy Qur’an, please explain why trying to discuss things with you is like trying to nail jelly to a wall.

Wassalam,

Shahid

Salaam to my readers.

I’m working on three long articles at the moment, and these will take some precedence over this blog.

They are:

1. A Fracture in Belief
2. Letter to a Friend 2
3. The Only Advent

The first is my document on why I left jama’at Ahmadiyya, what my journey was like, what the conditions were, overall, it is the description of a joureny.

The second is a follow-up to the open letter I wrote to Mirza Sahib and his followers. It doesn’t address any of those points, rather, it is a discussion on the document “Ek Ghalati Ka Izala” (The Removal of a Misunderstanding) by Mirza Sahib.

Finally, I am writing a document that compares RasulAllah SAW with Mirza Sahib in order to show people unequivocally, that there can be no second advent of RasulAllah SAW - and for the sake of argument - even if such a thing were sanctioned by Islam, that person could never have been Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani.

When one has invested so much of one’s life in an idea; when one’s ancestors and relatives have invested so much into that same idea; when one has sufficient intelligence that they can produce reasoning and support for an idea; where does the strength come to realise that the idea is wrong - and that the benefit of releasing it, of walking away from it, is worthwhile?

The strength comes from Allah. You might well be cleverer than me. That cleverness might make it easier for you to fend off individual points, and to win some moral victory in your own mind at some given point, but the truth will gnaw away at you. People die for the sake of an idea. You have to ask yourself - am I going to die for the right idea?

Religions are ten a penny. Choose one. If you’re in a free and democratic country, no one will stop you. Feel free! It’s just an idea, you can change it tomorrow if you don’t like it! But if you believe in Allah, then be careful. You never know when your life will be taken back by Allah. Make sure that you have studied your belief - that your belief holds up to scrutiny.

When there is a simpler, more logical explanation for an idea; one that is not contrived, and one that does not require twisted logic to support it, then it’s probably better. That’s not to say that the correct idea is necessarily rational. Hey, if you want to go down that road, what business have you in believing that you will be bodily resurrected? What business have you believing in angels? In miracles? Religion is not entirely rational. Rationality is not all there is. It’s a tool. It should help you to arrive at conclusions that sometimes require a degree of faith. Don’t use that same rationality to blind you into believing strange stories that are difficult to understand.

Was the Holy Prophet Muhammad SAW the Last in the Line of Prophets or not? Look at the evidence. The arguments used to support the corollary are circuitous and contrived. Why go with that answer? We are warned against that in the Holy Qur’an! Is the “seal” in the “Seal of Prophets” a seal that signifies the sealing of a container? Or the seal that signifies the last in the line? Or is it the seal that stamps out more of the like? Well, look at the Hadith for your answer. It gets no simpler than “There is no prophet after me”. Which part of the word “no” do you not understand? RasulAllah SAW didn’t say “there is a prophet after me”. So why are you arguing to the contrary? Why look at the weaker hadith, or the possibly fabricated hadith, in favour of the stronger hadith? Look, you’re reading this right? So you don’t have to tell anyone. This is between you and your Maker.

You talk about Hadhrat Isa AS. That’s just another “but” so that you can hold onto your belief. Don’t make excuses as they won’t avail you when you’re standing in front of Allah, trying to explain to him why you ignored the deen finalised on earth by His Final Prophet. You know very well that Hadhrat Isa AS was not the last in the line. If he comes back, he will not be a new prophet! Don’t you get that? The only reason he doesn’t violate the Seal of Prophethood is because he came before the Seal! Whereas Mirza Ghulam Ahmad came after the Seal! Mirza Sahib claimed prophethood and messengerhood as a new person. He was not Hadhrat Isa AS. Was he? Hmmm? Please don’t fool yourself with all this “incarnation” stuff. It’s a non-sequitur and in your heart, your Muslim, not Hindu heart, you know it.

You laugh at Muslims asking “where is Hadhrat Isa - is he in the sky? Is he floating? Is he eating a special diet?”. Don’t you feel uncomfortable mocking Allah’s greatness in this way? Hasn’t Allah told you that you will be raised again? “What, when we are dust?” Do you see where this argument goes? You might as well mock the angels! God forbid! God is great. He can do as He pleases. Your job is to believe in Him and His Final Prophet.

If the religion of Islam was perfected in the Holy Qur’an, 1400 years ago, why would we need some new prophet to come again, with a bunch of excuses, to reveal Islam again? Do we not have eyes to see? The first thing Hadhrat Jibreel asked RasulAllah SAW to do was “read!”. Can you not do the same?

You accuse Muslims of behaving like the Jews. What, are you for real? Allah made a binding covenant with no qualifications in the Holy Qur’an. Read the first few verses of Sura Al-Baqara and tell me where you see any so-called Promised Messiah. The other scriptures warn us of prophets to come. The holy Qur’an does not. Will you not read and see for yourself?

Religion is not a sport. Muslims do not debate with Ahmadis for sport, to deride them (though it might seem that way sometimes!). There is only one “true Islam”. And that is the Islam of the Holy Prophet Muhammad SAW. I know a lot of Ahmadis don’t read the Ahadith in detail. You should brothers and sisters. It’s half of what Muslims believe. Read the authentic, the muttawatir ahadith about the finality of prophethood. Read again and look for the same on Hadhrat Isa AS. You will be disturbed if you make a concerted effort to open your heart.

Study the life of the Holy Prophet Muhammad SAW. Then, armed with knowledge of Islam, and only then, read the books of Mirza Sahib if you can read Urdu, and get people to translate the “trickier” references if you cannot. Then tell me if the man you call “Promised Messiah” can be a prophet, or the” second advent of Muhammad” as well as the “second coming of Jesus” and the incarnation of Krishna.

Study Islam first, not the Islam filtered through the coloured lens of jama’at Ahmadiyya, but all if it - even though you already believe you are in the true Islam; study Islam to the best of your ability, then study Mirza Sahib. And if you are truthful to yourself, and you don’t drop the jama’at habit, I’ll give you your money back. Guaranteed.

May Allah guide you to the straight path of Islam, grant you health, happiness and strength in your deen. Ameen.