Ahmadiyya

This is Farhan, the Gangsta Mullah, here to refute a common Ahmadi argument. In fact, I am so bold as to say the single most common Ahmadi argument, stemming from dozens of Ahmadi sources. It even almost convinced me!

Here is the gist of the argument. In the Qur’an, in Surah Nisaa verse 69 (70) Allah says:

وَمَن يُطِعِ اللّهَ وَالرَّسُولَ فَأُوْلَئِكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ اللّهُ عَلَيْهِم مِّنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَالصِّدِّيقِينَ وَالشُّهَدَاء وَالصَّالِحِينَ وَحَسُنَ أُولَئِكَ رَفِيقً

And whoso obeys Allah and this Messenger shall be among those on whom Allah has bestowed His blessings - the Prophets, the Truthful, the Martyrs, and the Righteous. And an excellent company are they.
- Muhammad ‘Ali translation, the official Ahmadi translation

The gist of their argument is: Whoever obeys Allah and the Messenger will be one of the Truthful, Martyrs, and Righteous. These three categories will continue to come in this Ummah. If these can continue to come, then so can the Prophets! Therefore, there can be other Prophets and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is one of them.

Pretty air tight, right? WRONG! This verse was not revealed in a vacuum left for the Ahmadis to interpret as they wish. This verse was revealed when a companion by the name of Thawbaan رضي الله عنه came to the Prophet صلي الله عليه و سلم with signs of grief on his face. The Prophet صلي الله عليه و سلم asked why he was sad, and he replied saying he is saddened that the Prophet will be in a higher level of Jannah than him, and he will be aware from the Prophet صلي الله عليه و سلم. In response to his concern stemming from his deep love of the Messenger of Allah صلي الله عليه و سلم, Allah revealed this verse.

Said al-Kalbi: “This verse was revealed about Thawban, the client of Allah’s Messenger, Allah bless him and give him peace. Thawban loved the Prophet dearly such that he could not bear not seeing him for long periods. One day Thawban showed up with his complexion changed, he had lost weight and the signs of sadness were evident on his face. The Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, said to him: ‘O Thawban, what has made your complexion change?’ He said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, I am not suffering from any harm or pain, except that when I do not see you, I miss you and feel intense longing for you which does not cease until I meet you. Then I remember the Afterlife and I fear that I will not see you there. I know that you will be raised high up with the Prophets whereas if I enter the Garden, I will be in a rank much lower than yours, and if I do not enter the Garden, it will be certain that I will never see you’. And so Allah, exalted is He, revealed this verse”.

This verse is not talking about the Dunya, it is talking about the Akhirah! Therefore, it has nothing to do with these four categories of people coming in this life. Yes, the Truthful, Martyrs and Righteous will come in this Ummah, but this particular verse is not talking about it.

Still don’t think it refers to the next life? Then ask yourself how you be “with the martyrs”? To be a martyr, you have to have died and to be with the dead you have to be dead yourself! So, it clearly refers to the next life

Still still don’t think so? The Ahmadis canonized (scroll down to THE INSTITUTION OF MUJADADIYYAT) who they believe the Mujaddideen (religious revivers). Two of them are Abdul Qadir al-Gilaani and Jalal ad-Deen as-Suyootee, from the 6th and 9th century, respectfully. Lets see what they say about this verse:

Abdul Qadir al-Gilaani, in his book Futuh al-Ghayb (The Unveiling of the Unseen), in the “Fourty-Fifth” discourse writes:

This is how to protect blessings from passed away and irrigate its plant and to accelerate the growth of its branches and leaves; and to help the beautification of its fruit and to sweeten its taste and to assure the safety of its end and to make its eating tasteful and to make its swallowing easy and to make it yield comfort and to enable it to maintain its growth in the body and to make its blessings manifest on the organs of the body through various kinds of acts of obedience to God such as will render one nearer to God and to keep him in His remembrance, and will further make the servant enter in the life hereafter and the mercy of God, and Mighty, the Glorious, and will earn for him an abiding life in the gardens of paradise in the holy companionship of prophets, siddiqs (the truthful ones), the Shahids (witnesses) and the Salihs (the righteous) - a beautiful company are those.

Jalal ad-Deen as-Suyootee, in his Tafseer book Tafseer Jalalayn writes:

Whoever obeys God and the Messenger, in what he commands, they are with those whom God has blessed of the prophets and the truthful, that is, the most excellent of the Prophet’s Companions, because of the fullness of their truthfulness and their affirmation of the truth; and the martyrs, those slain in the path of God; and the righteous, [all those] other than the ones mentioned. What fine companions they are!, in Paradise, since in it one will enjoy seeing them, visiting them and being in their presence, even though they will be in the highest stations in relation to others.

To sum it up, this verse is talking about the reunion of the righteous Muslims in the next life with all of the other Muslims, including the Prophet صلي الله عليه و سلم! To maintain their intentional misinterpretation, the Ahmadis would have to do the following:

1. Reject the Hadith of the Prophet صلي الله عليه و سلم
2. Reject the logic of being “with the dead”
3. Reject the Scholars of Islam they themselves consider Mujaddideen رحيمهم الله
4. Find some other implausible explanation. But, I trust the average Ahmadi will see through nonsense of the Murabbis and their tactics.

May Allah guide our friends away from Ahmadiyya and to Islam!