Forum: Don't overreact on Ahmadiyah

Mon, 05/26/2008 10:17 AM  |  Reader's Forum

Dear Rafiq Mahmood, Part of the hatred against the Ahmadiyah community is sheer ignorance of ill-informed ulema of Muslim world who pass concocted propaganda to the general public, and people like Husni Mobarak fall into their trap. These ill-informed people deserve our prayers because they know not the truth and may invite the wrath of Allah. May Allah give them wisdom to seek and recognize the truth.

Another unfortunate part is that so-called ulema think Islam to be their property and thus cannot tolerate anyone else to share with them the beauty of Islamic teachings.

Yet another sad part is that the Ahamadiyah community is generally not allowed to counter the falsely fabricated allegations, such as in Pakistan where the constitution forbids any Ahmadi to explain his belief as it might hurt the feelings ofMuslim".

The question is why they do this? The simple answer is that: in Ahmadiyah there is no place for mullah-ism and if Ahmadiyah is allowed to be promoted, then theirof religious exploitation" will suffer. Second, these so-called ulema/mullah blackmail the state machinery with the threat of their malicious designs of exploitation in the name of religion.

Now it is up to the general public that they should not fall into the trap of these so-called ulema and seek truth from the Holy Koran and the life of the Prophet Mohammad (SAW) and see for themselves what the Ahmadiyah movement is all about. Ahmadiyah is nothing but true and pure Islam as was taught by the Holy Prophet himself. The promised messiah was assigned to do cleansing to remove false beliefs that intruded Islam over 14 centuries.

TAHIR IQBAL
Chicago

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