Letter: Stop hatred toward Ahmadiyah

Tue, 05/13/2008 10:39 AM  |  Reader's Forum

I visited your country a couple of times in the mid 90s and found it not only immensely beautiful but also the atmosphere very tolerant and people very loving.

The recent news of hatred toward the Ahmadiyah sect is very painful. I want to remind my Indonesian brothers that hatred has never paid well.

I want to remind you that Afghans displayed their extreme hatred towards Ahamdiyah over 100 years ago by stoning to death a very noble and respected religious figure (Sahbizada Abdul Latif) whose only "sin" was to have accepted the truth of Ahmadiyah.

History bears witness and testimony that in the past over 100 years, Afghanistan has never seen peace and Allah has "stoned" the entire Afghan nation and Allah's wrath has continued to descend on that unfortunate nation ever since "Shahadat" of that noble person.

I also want to remind my Indonesian brothers it was in 1974 in Pakistan that a handful of ill-informed mulahs and politicians let loose reins of terror and "zulm" on the Ahmadiyah sect and threw them out of the folds of Islam.

Recall the history of Pakistan since 1974. Allah has taken the peace from that nation and it has experienced the terrible wrath of Allah since.

Dear Indonesian brothers, if you love your country and yourselves and your next generations, please fear Allah and refrain from actions that will invoke Allah's wrath.

I pray that Allah give wisdom to the leaders of Indonesia to save their great country and the innocent Indonesian public from wrath that is bound to come if they interfere in the domain of Allah by terrorizing and doing "zulm" on His innocent people of the Ahmadiyah sect.

RAHIR IQBAL
Washington, U.S.

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Laeeq Ahmad (not verified) — Mon, 05/19/2008 - 3:21am

Dear sir,

Islam is just a religion of 1400 years old and we are already divided in so many sects. We rush to declare Kafirs each others. While declaring some one non muslim, we forget that there is Almighty God, who knows who is muslim and who is non muslim and who is Kafir. We still go ahead and take this task in our own hands. Instead we be stead fast and firm in our believes, we are
immediately get frustrated by other peoples's belives and thoughts. It shows that we are weak in our beliefs and thoughts.
The reason for this weakness is that 99% of us dont read our self regarding the Islam and its fudamental teachings.Due to this reason. we believe what ever we are told about the religion.I ask all muslims, how many of them have read the Bible? I bet hardly any one . So all the objection and myths about Christanity are told by the Mullahs. We have not our own knowledge of any religion. Due to this reason, we are weak in our religion.
God bless Muslims. Instead converting non muslims to Islam, we trying to push more people out of Islam.

Hale Luia

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