I would like to comment on an article titled “Government to review Ahmadiyah joint decree,” (the Post, Oct. 4)
Religious intolerance is one single problem confronting humanity today
that is fraught with dangers, since it is pushing mankind to the
precipice of chaos and violence.
Followers of different religious faiths withdrew into their cocoons,
drumming up zealotry and bigotry and fanning the flames of intolerance,
enmity, hatred and so on.
Forgotten is the most basic tenet of all faiths, which is tolerance, as
religious civilizations promote love, brotherhood and understanding
among men.
The Ahmadiyah sect is founded on the denial of prophetic finality,
insisting that Ghulam Ahmad is a messiah. To win converts, they must
deconstruct the belief of mainstream Muslims, and in doing so, make them
disbelievers of the Holy Koran by also denying the finality of
prophethood.
They claim as Muslims yet they are not real ones. In fact, this the
singular dividing line between Sunni Islam and Shia Islam — the Koranic
declaration of Khaatamun Nubuwwa or the finality of the divine
prophethood, whereby Shia sects, Bahais and now Ahmadiyah want to
destroy or “reconstruct” the divine messages.
In my mind, if the Ahmadi sect ventures into proselytization in
non-Muslim countries, and not among Muslims, it can be tolerated since
there is no immediate harm to mainstream Muslims. But they are sowing
confusion which spawns violence.
But, in the final analysis, learned Muslim scholars must face Ahmadi
preachers and engage them in unraveling the divine truth, and erase
blasphemy and idolatry. With the Muslim ummah slowly splitting into 73
different sects, confusion and violence is almost inevitable.
With only one of these sects guaranteed divine salvation, let those
Muslims following the Holy Prophet gain the promised reward of divine
salvation.
It is a big burden among Muslim scholars and, indeed, every Muslim to
spread the message of Islam while divine wrath awaits those who distort
the Koran and Islam.
Bab
Dhaka
Nowadays, attacks on the Ahmadiyah Muslim community are frequent in Indonesia.
The world knows that the Ahmadiyah Muslim community is a peaceful community, which is truly Islam, otherwise what Islam is?
I ask all Muslims, especially Indonesian Muslims, and all Muslims of the
world: How long you will watch these criminal, barbaric acts of your
(Ulema) clerics?
Why do I say your Ulema? Because they are responsible for all these
atrocities, and innocent Muslim youths are just acting as their tools.
Ask your clerics if what they are doing is according to the Holy Koran and the Sunnah of our beloved prophet Muhammad?
Do the teachings of Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)
permit killing innocent, peaceful and helpless people and burning their
houses and places of worship and kicking them out of their own houses,
just based on a religious belief?
No, not at all.
Neither did our beloved Prophet (saw) do this, nor did He permit such
criminal acts. These are the works of Pharaoh, Abu Jahal, Abu Lalab,
Atba and Shaiba, not the work of our beloved Prophet (saw) and his
followers.
Last, I warn the Indonesian government with a painful heart and tearful
eyes that it should learn a lesson from Pakistan, the way Pakistan was
before 1974 and where Pakistan is now?
In 1974, Pakistani leaders sowed the seeds of hatred under the pressure
of their so-called Islamic Ulema (clerics) against the members of
Ahmadiyah Muslims Community.
Fazal Ahmadi
Chennai, India
