Ahmadiyya verontrust over referendum minarettenverbod Zwitserland

 


Onvoorstelbare beeldretoriek in Zwitserse propaganda.

Een rechtse politieke partij in Zwitserland heeft een wetsvoorstel gedaan om de bouw van minaretten te verbieden, met als argument dat een minaret niet gebouwd wordt als een religieus symbool, maar om te fungeren als een symbool van islamitische politieke dominantie die een gevaar vormt voor de grondwettelijke rechten. Deze bewering mist elke grond en vormt opnieuw een duidelijk voorval van religieuze discriminatie en onderdrukking van moslims.

Nu wil de regering van Zwitserland op 29 november a.s. een landelijk referendum houden over dit onderwerp. Er zijn grote posters gemaakt die overal in het land zijn opgehangen, ook op stations. Op deze poster wordt een vrouw gekleed in boerka afgebeeld voor een aantal minaretten in de vorm van ‘raketten’ die oprijzen vanuit de Zwitserse vlag. Zo wordt getracht met negatieve en valse propaganda de deelnemers aan het referendum te beïnvloeden. De Ahmadiyya Moslim Djamaat is van mening dat een dergelijk verbod een duidelijk voorbeeld is van religieuze discriminatie, en een directe schending is van de verplichtingen van Zwitserland onder het internationaal humanitair recht.

Het referendum is gebaseerd op een voorstel van de Zwitserse Volkspartij (SPP) om artikel 72 van de Grondwet te wijzigen door de zin “De constructie van minaretten is verboden” in te lassen.

Van oudsher is het belangrijkste doel van een minaret het doen van de islamitische oproep tot het gebed vanaf een verhoogde plaats in of rond de moskee. De oproep tot het gebed kan worden vergeleken met het luiden van de klokken van een kerktoren omdat beide het aanbreken van de tijd voor aanbidding aanduiden. Maar uit respect voor de lokale omwonenden, en om het storen van niet-moslims tot een minimum te beperken, gebeurt dit in de meeste Ahmadiyya-moskeeën niet en wordt de oproep tot het gebed gedaan binnen de moskee. Niettemin blijft de minaret nog steeds een rol spelen als een belangrijk architectonisch gezicht van de moskee.

De minaret is geen politiek symbool of een middel om de samenleving op de proef te stellen en te domineren. In alle Ahmadiyya-moskeeën wordt het beoefenen van de islamitische principes van liefde, vrede en verdraagzaamheid voortdurend gestimuleerd en in praktijk gebracht. Terreuraanslagen worden dikwijls toegeschreven aan de Islam, terwijl dergelijke aanvallen de handelingen zijn van misleide en kwade geesten die niets uitstaande hebben met de islam. De Koran verklaart expliciet “Er is geen dwang in de godsdienst”. (2:257)

Het provocerende karakter van deze anti-islamitische campagne is zowel opruiend als volstrekt onverantwoordelijk omdat de campagne eerder dient om te vervreemden dan om het wederzijds begrip te verbeteren.

Als minaretten zouden worden verboden in Zwitserland is dit een schending van de fundamentele rechten van de moslims in het gehele land en een rechtstreekse schending van de artikelen 18 en 9 van het IVBPR (Internationaal Verdrag inzake Burgerrechten en Politieke rechten) en van het EVRM (Europees Verdrag voor de Rechten van de Mens). Beide verdragen zijn geratificeerd door de Zwitserse regering en garanderen iemands recht om zijn godsdienst te belijden.

Het wekt verbazing dat een dergelijke actie als het verbod op minaretten zich voordoet in een land als Zwitserland, dat altijd een reputatie heeft gehad van vrede, tolerantie, rust en neutraliteit, zonder enig vooroordeel. Dit zijn idealen die in het gedrang komen en worden bedreigd door de voorgestelde wetgeving. De Ahmadiyya Moslim Djamaat maakt zich zorgen over deze ontwikkeling.

Het is te hopen dat de bevolking van Zwitserland het verbod op minaretten zal verwerpen in het te houden referendum.

(Persbericht Ahmadiyya Moslim Gemeenschap)

Islamic Jihad compared with Biblical and Modern Concepts of War (Episode 12)

Biblical Concepts of Holy War (Jihad)

I recommend to the readers to consult the following chapters.

  • Joshua 10
  • Joshua 11
  • Joshua 13

Joshua 10 and 11, describes the stories of the Holy Wars totally. Kindly read the details of what they did with their enemies. I have already mentioned that these wars were just to expand the empire of the children of Israel, not to spread the message of God across the world as in the case of Islam.

Joshua 13 describes the future campaigns that were left unaccomplished, as Joshua was too old to be a part of those. So, he described what lands to capture and the inheritance of that land to the Israelites. So, this ultimately showed the sole purpose of those wars. And that was to capture the land and wealth only. And just for that they killed thousands of people, destroyed many cities. Now, take the two cases. A king who fights to expand his empire and capture as much wealth as he gets; for that he just kills everyone he comes across. And then we have the Israelites that are doing the same. Is there any difference between these two? Indeed not. They both are fighting for the same purpose. Then can anyone claim that there was anything “Holy” in the Holy Wars the Israelites fought?

Can these people who just keep on raising objections against Islam that Muslims shed blood on this planet have anything to say? Do they have any reason talk about it? I am so sorry for them, as they don’t look at themselves. If you read the Bible, you will find that the their history is full of wars. It looks like they didn’t even have few years of peace. And if we see the brutality which is written in Bible then one can feel that Mongols were the followers of Bible as these war crime remind me the brutality of Genghis Khan and Hulagu Khan which they brought into Muslim world.

Islamic Jihad compared with Biblical and Modern Concepts of War (Episode 11)

Biblical Concepts of Holy War (Jihad)

       I just can’t provide all the references from Bible related to the Holy Wars. There are about 500 places in bible, where bible talks about Jihad or War. And these are not just one small quote or line but there are even whole chapters describe their stories of Holy wars (Jihad).

If we just see the life of Joshua according to bible then we find that he defeat (or we can say fought) 31 Canaanites states, and after every victory the same barbaric behavior were repeated by Israelites and by their holy leaders and some of them were even claims to be the Prophet or Successor of Prophet. The reader should know that even some of the wars which were fought by Joshua has no reason except to promoting terror into the hearts of their real enemies the Canaanites. So they destroy those who are not even their enemies like Ai and some others. And the reason for these terrorist activities were just that according to their spiritual leaders God want them to do this. In biblical words we can say “I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land” (Joshua 8: 1).

I really feel sorry for those who believe Bible as the guidance for life style. These references draw the picture of biblical God as a savage creature, who just need blood of others to satisfy himself and Israelities. I am really confuse about the biblical God who on one hand called himself as a creator of universe while on the other hand continuously order the Israelities to eliminate the other human race. Bible portray the picture of that God who only care for Israelities. Israelities just kept on killing the people who used to live in their respective homelands. Did they have any great purpose of doing these cruelty? Indeed not. Can this kind of teachings be associated with God? That God just forgets every other nation other then the children of Israel.

Islamic concept compared with Biblical and Modern Concepts of War (Episode 10)

Biblical Concepts of Holy War (Jihad)

Thirteenth extract:

And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua. And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day. And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.” (Joshua 8: 23 to 29)

Here we can see again, great campaigns of the children of Israel. Here again no great reason has been stated to destroy the city and its inhabitants viciously. The only reason that is present is the following verse;

And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:” (Joshua 8: 1)

Shame on those priests and writers who just blame Islam on its beautiful and peace loving teaching to hide their ugly face. In above reference, God is just interested to give the children of Israel as much land and wealth as possible, and for that He does not bother whether his created humans who were unfortunately not amongst the children of Israel, be slaughtered like animals. Just to give them the kingdom of this world, He just keeps on commanding them to destroy all the people they come across. And the kindness that they showed after defeating them is noteworthy.

Islamic concept compared with Biblical and Modern Concepts of War (Episode 9)

Biblical Concepts of Holy War (Jihad)

Twelfth extract:

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian” (Numbers 31: 1 to 3)

So, Moses was about to retaliate the Midianites. When they defeated them, were they supposed to show any mercy to the people of Midianites. Of course not, because it looks against the teaching of bible. They were supposed to kill them as they show no mercy to children, women, old, cattle etc. This is exactly what they did. But I have already mentioned these verses, but here I would like to mention another act of extreme cruelty of the children of Israel. And that is

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.” (Numbers 31: 15 to 18)

This is what they did with women and virgin women, and in verse 35 of the same chapter (Numbers 31: 35), the number of those women (virgin girls) that they kept alive is mentioned and they were about 32,000. I think the above mentioned verses need no further explanations. Who knows that how many virgin girls they really kept in other wars and what was the end result of this because this is just one uncomplete reference which just talk about one war and show number of women, and no further explain that what these people did with those women. This references also show that how much interest the biblical kings and warriors has in virgins. The priest are continuously blaming Islam on this issue even they do not show or find any teaching in Quran or saying of Muhammad (s) related to this issue like the bible has. I think the root of this allegation on Islam is hatred and to promote hatred against Islam and its prophet (s) .

Islamic concept compared with Biblical and Modern Concepts of War (Episode 8)

Biblical Concepts of Holy War (Jihad)

Eleventh extract

And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor. And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones. And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.” (Joshua 7: 24 to 26)

According to the teachings of the bible, it is clearly evident that God of Bible is not interested to bless any other nation other then the children of Israel. And they are supposed to rule the world in whatever way they can. Every other nation is no more a creation of God. And whatever the children of Israel were doing, they were not doing it for the sake of making people pious or to spread the message which is from God across the world, but to capture as much land and wealth as possible. So, every other nation they came across, they just ruined their honor, dignity, independence, empire, in shorts almost everything. Just to show that children of Israel are those who are most blessed one and all other nations are just nothing. Can anybody believe in such God, who shows mercy to a specific group of people? Can anybody believe in such God who does not want to bless any other nation? Can anybody believe in such God who just doesn’t want any other nation to be closer to God? Of course not. We can’t even think that God is just for one nation or tribe, and treats every other nation just like they were created by someone else. If a religion does not teach equality, brotherhood and tolerance, then can anybody state any valid reason to believe in such religion?

For Islam, it is often said that Islam was spread on the edge of the sword. Although this is totally wrong but even if we accept it for the moment, then we find that every campaign of Muslims against Non Muslims were just to make them Muslims i.e. people who are pious, to make them just like themselves, to make them closer to God, to make the world a better place to live. I know some people would not agree on the statement, as they think that Muslims are everything but pious. But if we look at the Bible teachings, it is clearly speaking about that children of Israel wanted to have whole world and the whole wealth in their hands. They don’t want any other nation to survive on this planet. So, their ultimate objective does not mean to reform people but to increase the empire of the children of Israel only. Now, can anybody answer that is there anything in these people’s hand to say even a word against Islam?

Islamic concept compared with Biblical and Modern Concepts of War (Episode 7)

Biblical Concepts of Holy War (Jihad)

 

Tenth extract:

Now, I will include some references of the person which was regarded as “full of spirit of wisdom”. In the Bible it is written,

And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.” (Deuteronomy 34: 9)

Now, If we look at the activities in which he was involved, we feel very sorry that can it be called as the person with full of wisdom. If someone says that it something which God commanded him to do, then this reason is more unwise in nature. Because it will ultimately mean that God, as presented by Bible, is very unkind and full of wrath. He does not like to forgive people, because this is very clear from the above mentioned references and the references to come that, Bible does not provide a valid reason for killing innocent people. And it looks like that for every sin; the only way of making that person (*) is to kill that person.

Now I would like to quote some verses from the Bible about what kindness and justice that he brought to the world.

And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword. But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot’s house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her. And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel. And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD” (Joshua 6: 21 to 24)

I don’t find a single reason that why they are so brutal in their revenge. How can a follower of those people be kind to others? How can a follower of Bible be just to others? Hitler is famous in recent history of these kind of cruel acts but if someone want to read about the Hitler way cruelty then he should read the story of biblical Joshua. These references clearly provide evidence that according to Bible the enmity of one person with the followers of God is strong and evil enough that the whole city should be completely destroyed which includes men, women, young and old. Now, if we look at the context of the above mentioned reference, we will see that Joshua just destroyed that city because of the following reason.

Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.” (Joshua 9: 1 and 2)

Now can any wise man think that just this reason was strong enough to kill all the living beings of that city? Bible is just quite about whether Joshua and his followers delivered the message of God to them or not. And they just shut up the city so that the children of Israel might not enter in it is the sin they committed. And they had to pay to price by being killed brutally. After killing them, the thirst of revenge was not quenched. And they burnt the whole city. And they didn’t feel satisfied with that, Joshua said

And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.” (Joshua 6: 26)

This is the teaching of Bible. I don’t know why these people speak against Islam for being very intolerant religion? Why don’t they look at the teachings of the Bible? May God show them the right path!

Islamic concept compared with Biblical and Modern Concepts of War (Episode 6)

Biblical Concepts of Holy War (Jihad)

Eighth extract:

And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners. And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah” (Numbers 21: 1 to 3)

The king took some of the Israelites Prisoners. Just this act was so evil that they destroyed the whole cities.

Ninth extract:

When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.” (Deuteronomy 7: 1 to 6)

So, they are supposed to show no mercy to them. The merciless and unjust actions with these nations are evident in the above mentioned verses, which need no further explanations.

Islam compared with Biblical and Modern Concepts of War (Episode 5)

Biblical Concepts of Holy War (Jihad)

Sixth extract:

"But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth; but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee; (Deuteronomy 20: 16, 17)

Thou shalt save alive nothing that breath. What can I say more about this? After reading this verse I really doubt whether Bible is the book of God (who create the whole world and all humans) or it is a book of only Israelite.

Seventh extract:

and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife; then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife” (Deuteronomy 21: 11 to 13)

Christen always blame Islam that Muslim capt women as a war prisoners but they hide what their bible teaches them. The cruel part of biblical teaching is that; Israelite are order to capt women on base of beauty and not only this, when they bring that women home then they shave her head which is a act of humbled or humiliation of women. Even Muslims are not allowed to disfigure the face of dead bodies as it is a act of humbled against humanity “No disfigurement of face is to be permitted” (Bukhari and Muslim). While bible teaches to humiliate the live women. How shameful is this.

But if we see Islam then we find this beautiful teaching that “Prisoners should live in comfort. Muslims should care more for the comfort of their prisoners than for their own” (Tirmidhi).

Islam compared with Biblical and Modern Concepts of War (Episode 4)

Biblical Concepts of Holy War (Jihad)

Fourth extract: The following verses show the treatment of the followers with Idolaters.

       “Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. (Deuteronomy 12: 2 and 3)”

    By these teachings, we can easily say that the followers of Bible don’t want Idolaters to exist on this planet at all. Wherever they find them or conquer their nation, just destroy them completely. What kind teaching of tolerance is this that they are supposed to completely destroy them and all of their sacred places? Here I want to write about one allegation which mostly Christen raise about Muhammad (s) that when he (Muhammad) conquer the Makkah he threw all the idols out from mosque Kaaba.

Answer of this allegation:

      Yes it is true but Kaaba was build by Abraham (Ibrahim) the forefather of Muhammad (s) for worship one God. But later on people replaced the one God with 360 idols. So Muhammad (s) when we enter into the Makkah as leader he clean the Kaaba from idols and stone gods and restore the Kaaba into its original position. But this is history that he did not order to destroy all the idols which were present into the houses of Makka. Even after this conquest people of Makka were still worshiping idols in there homes and later when they closely watch and listen the teaching of Islam and Muhammad then they accept Islam.

   If we compare this beautiful conquest with biblical conquest then as Muslim I feel so proud and feel sorry for those who still sitting into the dark and cruel teaching of Bible.

 

Fifth extract:

This is the teaching to the followers of the Bible when they fight with their enemies.

When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve theeAnd if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the swordBut the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.” (Deuteronomy 20: 10 to 15)

    

      This teaching is again not based on Justice. If the opponents want peace even then they will become slaves and subordinates of them otherwise they all will be killed. So, either their independence or lives will be taken away. Whatever choice they make, they indeed have nothing nice to gain or lose in either case. There is no reason to kill all the men of the city that is being invaded. Not necessarily all the men of that city are those who are their opponents. Indeed they have some old men and sick people as well. But killing everyone is an extremely unfair teaching to take revenge from innocent people. When ever I read bible I felt that God of bible is only fair with biblical followers, other nation are like slaves and third degree humans in front of them.“   

Islam compared with Biblical and Modern Concepts of War (Episode 3)

Biblical Concepts of Holy War

After quoting the above beautiful paragraph which summarize the of concept of Holy War or Jihad in Islam and also the teaching of Muhammad (s) about the Jihad now I would like to present you the biblical concepts of Jihad or Holy War, I will try to provide some references from the Bible about the Israelite’s and Christen teachings.

First Extract:

“Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places: and ye shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for unto you have I given the land to possess it…But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. (Numbers 33: 52,53,55)”

In this verse, a strange and rather cruel teaching is mentioned that you are supposed to drive out the inhabitants of the land.

Second Extract:

Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet; (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us. But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land. Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his peopleAnd we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain: only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken (Deuteronomy 2: 28 to 36)

One can easily understand what they did to their opponents. And strange thing is that it is mentioned that God made the heart of that king obstinate. Not only this when follower of bible took the city they kill king and his sons and his people included children and women, and what was remain cattle and money which they took for themselves. I my mind this kind of blood thirty wars were the only quality of Biblical warriors. No need to mention the great teaching of Islamic concept of War (as I have wrote in episode 2 of this article)

Third Extract:

  “And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many. And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city” (Deuteronomy 3: 2 to 6)


I have no words to comment on this curtly. Sixty cities were destroyed, outnumber men, women and children were killed. It is clearly mentioned here, they destroyed the whole city. Now can anyone claim that this teaching is based on Justice? What kind of enmity is this that? But if we compare the Islamic teachings then we Islam and Muhammad teaches us Children are not to be killed, nor women (Muslim). When Muslims enter enemy territory, they should not strike terror into the general population. They should permit no ill treatment of common folk (Muslim).

Shame on those who try to blame peaceful teaching of Islam

Islam compared with Biblical and Modern Concepts of War (Episode 2)

Islamic or The Prophet’s (s) Precepts About War

   This part has been taken from the Book of Hadrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad (Second Successor to the Promised Messiah, peace be on whom)

Muslim teaching, however, does not consist only of precepts laid down in the Qur’an. It also includes the precepts and example of the Prophet sa. What he did or what he taught in concrete situations is also an essential part of the Islamic teaching. We append here some sayings of the Prophet sa on the subject of war and peace.

(i) Muslims are forbidden altogether to mutilate the dead (Muslim).

(ii) Muslims are forbidden to resort to cheating (Muslim).

(iii) Children are not to be killed, nor women (Muslim).

(iv) Priests and religious functionaries and religious leaders are not to be interfered with (Tahavi).

(v) The old and decrepit and women and children are not to be killed. The possibility of peace should always be kept in view (Abu Dawud).

(vi) When Muslims enter enemy territory, they should not strike terror into the general population. They should permit no ill treatment of common folk (Muslim).

(vii) A Muslim army should not camp in a place where it causes inconvenience to the general public. When it marches it should take care not to block the road nor cause discomfort to other wayfarers.

(viii) No disfigurement of face is to be permitted (Bukhari and Muslim).

(ix) The least possible losses should be inflicted upon the enemy (Abu Dawud).

(x) When prisoners of war are put under guard, those closely related should be placed together (Abu Dawud).

(xi) Prisoners should live in comfort. Muslims should care more for the comfort of their prisoners than for their own (Tirmidhi).

(xii) Emissaries and delegates from other countries should be held in great respect. Any mistakes or discourtesies they commit should be ignored (Abu Dawud, Kitab al jihad).

(xiii) If a Muslim commits the sin of ill treating a prisoner of war, atonement is to be made by releasing the prisoner without ransom.

(xiv) When a Muslim takes charge of a prisoner of war, the latter is to be fed and clothed in the same way as the Muslim himself (Bukhari).

The Holy Prophet sa was so insistent on these rules for a fighting army that he declared that whoever did not observe these rules, would fight not for God but for his own mean self (Abu Dawud).

Abu Bakr ra, the First Khalifa of Islam, supplemented these commands of the Prophet sa by some of his own. One of these commands appended here also constitutes part of the Muslim teaching:

(xv) Public buildings and fruit-bearing trees (and food crops) are not to be damaged (Mu’atta).

From the sayings of the Prophet sa and the commands of the First Khalifa of Islam it is evident that Islam has instituted steps which have the effect of preventing or stopping a war or reducing its evil. As we have said before, the principles which Islam teaches are not pious precepts only; they have their practical illustration in the example of the Prophet sa and the early Khalifas of Islam. As all the world knows, the Prophet sa not only taught these principles; he practised them and insisted on their observance.

Turning to our own time we must say that no other teaching seems able to solve the problem of war and peace. The teaching of Moses as is far from our conceptions of justice and fair-play. Nor is it possible to act upon that teaching today. The teaching of Jesus as is impracticable and has ever been so. Never in their history have Christians tried to put this teaching into practice. Only the teaching of Islam is practicable; one which has been both preached and practised by its exponents, and the practice of which can create and maintain peace in the world.

Islam compared with Biblical and Modern Concepts of War (Episode 1)

    Islam and Prophet Muhammad (s) are always blame for their teaching about Holy War, not even this accusers also blame the Holy Book of Islam that it actually promote the killing of innocent peoples. The problem is that nobody really try to know and understand the rules which Muhammad (s) made for these Holy War. In this Article I will try to provide some Comparative references from the Islamic rules and teaching about Warfare and Biblical and modern rules and teaching about Warfare so people can compare both religion on the basis of teaching of Holy War. First of all I would like to to explain the War and Holy War and then Islamic and Quranic concept of wars and the ethical code and practice of Muhammad (s) according to his own teachings and practice. Then I will discus and show to the reader that what are the teachings and concepts and practice of war according to bible and modern society (so called developed and well manners society).

         The difference between a “War” and a “Holy War” indeed lies in the word “Holy”. Now, different religions regard different deeds and actions to be consider as “Holy”. The concept of Holy War is indeed common in many religions; rather one should say that it is common in the world’s renowned religions of the time. It is indeed a very unjust statement that Islam is the only religion on this planet today which believes in the Holy War.  

       I am not going to discuss the concept of Jihad in Islam in this article in detail. Rather people should consult other literature that is available on Jihad on http://www.alislam.org/terrorism.html  but one thing which I would like to mention here is that Islam presents the concept of Jihad, which does not only and necessarily mean the Holy War. Jihad means to strive and to struggle. So, this is a very beautiful teaching that one should always believe in Jihad, not against people, but first against oneself. Always in a struggle and strive to make oneself a better human, a human closer to God, lessening the worldly desires, increasing the spiritual levels is Jihad. Jihad against poverty, Jihad against illiteracy, moral and spiritual descend of oneself and others are the few examples Jihad. This is the primary teaching of Jihad according to Islam. And in my opinion, this concept is also present in all other religions. Because those religions teach the people how to become a better human being, as it does not really matter what you name it exactly. And if any religion does not have this concept, I don’t think any reason to follow that religion. Because if any religion does not present any teaching to make human better, then what is the need of believing in such a religion.

          Islam, in one time, did state that the followers must raise the sword against the people who raised the sword against them. Muslims did indulge in wars at times. But allow me to say that, all of those wars used to be defensive in their nature. Muslims were allowed to raise the sword against those people who used to raise the sword against them as Qur’an state “Permission to fight is given to those against whom war is made, because they have been wronged—and Allah indeed has power to help them—Those who have been driven out from their homes unjustly”. The act of being defensive has never been against the humanity. It is a very basic right of a human that he can defend himself from others. After all we are human first and followers of any religion second.

One principle which if followed properly can never make a situation when people come across each other in a battlefield. And that principle is Tolerance. If people learn to tolerate, then the world will be full of peace. Freedom of religion is something which should be a common practice of every society. As long as people don’t interfere in other’s religions, then there is no reason of settling their issues in the battlefields. Indeed those issues can never be solved there. But if the people try to remove any religion by force, then the religion against which that force is being used has the right to defend itself. It is not against any law rather it is a natural phenomena and even which we can see in animal also.

Promised Messiah: The Divine Warner has warned you

The Divine Warner has warned you in the name of God and His Messenger, the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him). He has done his duty. It is my prayer that God grant you the strength and courage to do your duty. Let me conclude in his own words:

"Remember, God has informed me of many earth-quakes.
Rest assured, therefore, that as earth-quakes have shaken America and Europe, so will they shake Asia. Some of them willresemble the Day of Doom. So many people shall die thatrivulets of blood shall flow. Even the birds and the beastswill not he immune against this death. Havoc shall sweepthe surface of the earth which shall be the greatest sincethe birth of man. Habitations shall be demolished as if noone had ever lived in them.
This will he accompanied bymany other terrible calamities which the earth and theheavens will send forth, till their extraordinary nature willbecome evident to every reasonable man. All the literatureof science and philosophy shall fail to show their like.Then mankind shall be sore distressed and wonder whatis going to happen. Many shall escape and many shallperish. The days are near, in fact. I can see them close athand, when the world shall witness a terrible sight: notonly earthquakes but also many fearsome calamities shallovertake man, some from the skies and some from theearth. This will happen because mankind have stoppedworshipping their true God and have become lost in theaffairs of the world with all their heart and their effort andin-tent.

If I had not come, these afflictions would perhapshave been delayed a little. But with my coming the secret purposes of an affronted God which were hidden so far,became manifest. Says God: ‘We never punish unlessWe send a Messenger.’ Those who repent shall findsecurity and those who fear before calamity overtakesthem shall be shown mercy. Do you think you will beimmune from these calamities? Or can you saveyourselves through artifice or design? Indeed not. Thatday all human schemes shall fail. Think not that earth-quakes visited America and other continents but that yourown country shall remain secure. Indeed, you mayexperience a greater hardship.

O Europe, you are not safeand O Asia, you too, are not immune. And O dwellers ofIslands, no false gods shall come to your rescue. I see citiesfall and settlements laid waste. The One and the Only Godkept silent for long. Heinous deeds were done before Hiseyes and He said nothing. But now He shall reveal Hisface in majesty and awe. Let him who has ears hear thatthe time is not far. I have done my best to bring all underthe protection of God, but it was destined that what waswritten should come to pass. Truly do I say that the turnof this land, too is approaching fast. The times of Noahshall reappear before your eyes, and your own eyes willbe witnesses to the calamity that overtook the cities ofLot. But God is slow in His wrath. Repent that you maybe shown mercy! He who does not fear Him is dead, notalive."

(Haqiqatul Wahy, pp.256-57).

{A message sent by Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat International}

Five women labelled as Witches in India

On 20 October 2009, I read a shocking news from India’s Jharkhand state that Five women were paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches.

Local police said the victims were Muslim widows who had been labelled as witches by a local mullah (cleric). "On Sunday morning the victims were taken to a playground where hundreds had assembled to watch the ghastly incident," Majority of perpetrators were Muslims and four of the five victims belonged to the same community. Deputy inspector general of police Murari Lal Meena told the BBC. "No one in the mob came forward to rescue the victims as they were being stripped and beaten up,".

The question arise how much Muslim mullah are ignorant and where they are leading to Muslims, Alas on those who follow them. Why Muslims follow these cleric this is totally out of my understanding even as they read about this saying of Prophet Muhammad (s) “There will be nothing left of knowledge. People will make the ignorant their leaders and will seek guidance from them in matters of religion. These leaders will issue fatwas without any knowledge. They will themselves be misguided and will lead others astray. (Mishkat, Kitab ul-‘Ilm, page 33)

Further He (s) explains these mullahs as monkeys and swine and even the worse creature under the canopy of the heavens as He (s) state The Holy Prophet (s) once said: Among my follower there will be perplexity (confusion), and the people in their perplexity would approach their learned men, but at the time those learned men would be (like) monkeys and swine. [Kanz-ul-Umaal, vol 7, Page 190]

Mullah got these kind of believes and practices through the Hindi and Christians religion as they mix the Islamic concept of death of Jesus and Last Prophet with Hindi and Christians and other deranged religions.

This is very sad that in Islam there is no concept of witches, but mullah introduce this concept in Islam from other religions as the history of India and Europe is witness on this brutal act. Still in India every year; hundreds of people, mostly women have been killed because their neighbours thought they were witches. But actually most of the time the reason behind these kind of incident are property (especially widows who are targeted for their land and property) or revenge against those who are branded as Witches and some other issues.

Shame on all those who listen these sort of mullah. 

Promised Messiah wrote in book “Lecture Sialkot”

Today, while the Aryas are trying somehow to get rid of their old polytheistic creed of creature-worship, the Christians, on the contrary, are trying to convert, not only themselves, but the entire world to creature-worship. In an arbitrary and authoritarian manner they project the Messiah (as) God. There is no reason whatsoever to believe that he possessed any special power which other Prophets (as) did not. In fact, some Prophets (as) have shown even greater miracles than him. His frailties testify that he was only a human. He never made any claim on the basis of which he can be considered a claimant of divinity. All his sayings, which are supposed to prove his divinity, are merely taken out of context; for thousands of such figures of speech have also been used regarding other Prophets (as), and no reasonable person would argue that they prove the divinity of these Prophets (as). The only people who can do such a thing are those who love to deify human beings. I swear by God Almighty that the revelations and Divine communications vouchsafed to me contain even greater expressions. If such words could prove the divinity of the Messiah (as), then (God forbid) I too would have the right to make the same claim. Remember, it is simple and pure aspersion to say that the Messiah (as) ever claimed to be God. He never ever made such a claim. Whatever he said about himself does not exceed the word ‘intercession’, and no one denies that Prophets as hold the right of intercession. Was it not the intercession of Moses (as) that saved the Jews from burning chastisement time and again? I myself have personal experience in this regard. Many of my honourable followers are well aware that some people suffering from diseases and other tribulations have been delivered of their misery through my intercession and they were given the good news beforehand. It is simply absurd to believe that Jesus (as) took upon himself the burden of people’s sins and was crucified for their salvation. This belief is miles away from reason. It is also against the Divine attributes of equity and justice to say that one man should commit the sin while punishment should be awarded to another. This doctrine is nothing less than a bundle of errors! It does not behove rational men to abandon the One God, Who has no partner, and start worshipping His creatures. To believe that there are three independent and perfect persons in the Trinity who are equal in power and glory, and then to combine them into one perfect God, is the kind of logic which is peculiar only to the Christians. It is all the more lamentable that the purpose for which this novel plan was made, i.e., redemption from sin and deliverance from a life of filth, was never realized. To the contrary, before the doctrine of Atonement, the disciples were pure-hearted, had nothing to do with this world and its riches, were not defiled by the evils of this life, nor strive after worldly gains. Alas! where did such pure and devout hearts disappear after the Atonement! It is even more so in this age. The more stress is laid on the doctrine of Atonement and the blood of Jesus, the greater is the enchantment of the Christians with the mundane. Indeed, like a man in stupor, most of them are engrossed day and night in their earthly pursuits. The other sins rampant in Europe, like alcoholism and illicit sex, are too obvious to require any mention.

LECTURE SIALKOT: 49-52

Was Islam spread through Wars and did it force others to change their religion?

The Promised Messiah (a) wrote: Some, in their ignorance, blame Islam of Jihad [waging wars] to spread its message and of gaining converts at the point of sword. They claim that these converts were forced to change their religion under the threat of the sword. Woe to them a thousand times! They have exceeded all limits in their injustice and in their efforts to conceal the truth. O pity! What is wrong with them, that they wilfully turn away from realities? Our Holy Prophet (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) did not appear in the land of Arabia in the capacity of a monarch. It therefore cannot be suspected that he had royal majesty and power with him, such that the people gathered under his banner for fear of their lives. Now the question one faces is simply this: When he waged his lone spiritual battle for the pronouncement of God’s Unity and for the establishment of the truth of his ministry in a state of utter helplessness and poverty, then where was that sword which struck terror in their hearts, and coerced the meek into submission? And had they refused to believe or had they persisted in their rejection of him, from which king did he beg for a contingent army to be sent to his aid so that they may be forced to yield?

O seekers of truth! Rest assured that all these allegations are fabrications by those who are sworn enemies of Islam. Cast a glance at history. Muhammad (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was that same orphan whose father died shortly after his birth and whose mother passed away leaving him behind as a child of only a few months. That child on whom God had extended His hand of support was nurtured in His care without any other patronage. During those hard times of orphanhood, he tended goats belonging to others. None was his mentor except God. And even up to the age of twenty-five, none of his uncles were willing to offer their daughter’s hand in marriage to him as it appeared that he would be unable to meet even the basic household expenses. Moreover, he was unlettered and was not trained in any skill or profession. As he approached the age of forty, lo, there he was with his heart powerfully drawn towards his Lord, Allah, the Gracious. There was a cave, a few miles from Mecca by the name of Hira. It was here that he would retire by himself and, concealed from the eyes of men, become lost in the remembrance of God. One day, in that very cave, while he was praying in seclusion, God revealed Himself to him, and he was told: The people have turned their backs on the path of Allah and the earth is befouled with sin. So I [God Almighty] appoint you as My Messenger and send you to the world, so that you may warn the people that they should turn back to their Lord before His punishment befalls them.

Being unlettered, he was frightened by this command and beseeched God: I know not how to read and write. Then God filled his bosom with all faculties of spiritual knowledge and enlightened his heart. With the blessing of his quwwat-equdsiyyah [power of purification], the humble and meek started entering the circle of obedience to him. But the powerful leaders mustered all their forces to oppose him tooth and nail. They went even to the length of plotting to kill him and many men and many women were put to agonising death. As a last measure they surrounded the house of the Holy Prophet (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) with intent to murder him. But who can touch him whom God protects. God revealed to him: Leave this town forthwith and I will remain with you at every step.

Accordingly he left Mecca and took Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) along and remained in hiding for three nights in the cave of Thaur. The enemy gave chase, and with the aid of a tracker were led to the cave. That tracker traced their footsteps right up to the entrance of the cave, telling them: Here the track ends, so search for him in this cave. If he is not to be found here then the sky must have swallowed him. Who can limit the boundless wonders of God’s creation?

In a single night, God so manifested His will that a spider spun its web across the mouth of the cave from end to end and a pigeon built its nest at the entrance of the cave and even laid its eggs therein. When the tracker urged the Meccans to enter the cave, an old man thus retorted: This tracker must be mad. I have been seeing this web across the mouth of the cave since the time when Muhammad (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was not even born. At this, people began to disperse and gave up the idea of searching the cave.

After this, the Holy Prophet (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) travelled to Medina secretly. The majority of the inhabitants of Medina accepted him, causing the peopleof Mecca to seeth in rage, lamenting: Our prey has slipped out of our hands. They then became occupied in plots to murder the Holy Prophet (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). A small party from among the Meccans who had accepted Muhammad (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also left Mecca and migrated to different countries. Some took shelter under the Emperor of Abyssinia. Some however were left behind in Mecca as they lacked adequate provisions for such journeys; they were tormented to the extreme. The Holy Qur’an mentions how they wailed and bemoaned day and night to God.

The cruelties of the infidels from among the Qureish exceeded all bounds. They started to murder the helpless, poor women and orphaned children. They went to the extent of killing some women with such ruthlessness as to have tightly bound their legs each to different camels and driving them in opposite directions. Thus they died as they split in two.

When the transgression of these merciless infidels reached this stage, God, who turns to His servants with mercy revealed to his Messenger: The supplications of the afflicted have reached me. Thus this day, I permit them to stand up to their persecutors and remember that a people who raise their sword against the innocent will themselves perish by the sword. Yet, transgress not, because God does not befriend those who transgress.

This is the spirit and essence of Islamic Jihad which has been maliciously portrayed in the wrong light. God is forbearing, indeed, but when the mischief of a people crosses all limits, then He does not let the transgressors go unpunished. Then He Himself creates conditions which result in their destruction. I know not how and from where our opponents heard that Islam was spread by the might of the sword. God in the Holy Qur’an pronounced that    لَاۤ اِكْرَاهَ فِىْ الدِّيْنِ‌ۙ

there is no compulsion in Islam (al-Baqarah, 2:257)

That is: The religion of Islam does not permit any compulsion in matters of faith. Who commanded the application of force and what were the means of coercion available to them?And again, such people as are coerced into changing their faith do not display such dedication and such quality of belief, that without any financial returns and despite being a mere few hundred they dare to confront the army of thousands. When the same reached the number of one thousand, they somehow acquired the strength to defeat enemies running into hundreds of thousands. They readily offered their lives in defence of their faith, to be slaughtered like sheep and goats. They stamped the testimony to the truth of Islam with their own blood. Moreover, they became so enamoured with the task of spreading the Unity of God that, willingly accepting all kinds of hardships like ascetics, they crossed the deserts of Africa to disseminate the message of Islam so that their blessed teachings should bear the fruit of truth. Thus they succeeded in converting tens of millions of Chinese people to Islam. Then they entered India in the style of dervishes wearing sackcloth and succeeded in converting many to Islam from the

Arya faith. They even reached the frontiers of Europe and raised loud and clear the message: There is none worthy of worship except Allah

Can you claim in honesty that such as these are really the fruits of the sword of Islam, whose hearts remain infidel while the tongues alone profess the faith. Nay! It is the work of those whose hearts were filled with the light of faith. Nothing but God dwelled in their hearts.

MESSAGE OF PEACE 38-42

Pen to fight pen (time to Jihad with Pen)

The Promised Messiah (a) said: I have come to know that the Japanese are now inclined towards Islam. That being the case a very comprehensive book on the teachings of Islam should be compiled - it should contain every information about Islam, just as somebody describes the features of a man, from head to toe, like a picture of his. This book should contain all the good points in Islam. All the aspects of its teachings should be discussed; this also should be shown as to what the result of those teachings is and the fruits that they bear.
The Islamic morals should form a separate chapter and therein they should be compared with the morals presented by other religions.. I think it is so important to publish a book of this type that the person for whom the Hajj has become obligatory, should spend the money for the Hajj to publish this book instead; it would be a religious Jihad.
Once the Holy Prophet, sallallaho alaihi wa sallam, had to offer all the five prayers together. Now it is the Jihad with the pen (instead of the sword) that has to be waged. That is why this now is the time that the people should pick up courage and spend their time and wealth.

You should know it well that this is not the time to go the battlefield for religious purposes. The battles that were fought during the life time of the Holy Prophet, sallallaho alaihi wa sallam, were not meant to convert the non-believers to Islam by force; these battles were fought by the Muslims to defend themselves. When the Muslims were inhumanly tortured and turned out of Mecca and many Muslims had become martyrs, it was then that God commanded them to fight back; this definitely was a defensive measure. Now the times have changed. There is peace every where; it is with the pen that Islam is being attacked. That is why it is necessary that pen should be used to rebut the attacks. God! the Almighty says in the Holy Quran that you should make prep! aration to defend yourselves with the same kind of weapons as the opponents happen to use.

Think of the preparations that the opponents of Islam are now making. They are not lining up the armies. They are publishing magazines and books. We also should, therefore, pick up our pen and answer their attacks with magazines and books. It is not expedient that the prescription (treatment) and the sickness should be at variance. If the treatment does not conform with the sickness, the consequence is bound to be unprofitable and harmful.

(Malfoozat Vol. 8, pg. 20)

Brides: Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ… Episode 4

 

One allegation is made against Hazrat Zainab (r), who was actually the cousin of Muhammad (s). The allegation is that Muhammad (s) married to a wife of his adopted son’s. For the information of those who dare to accept Truth, kindly read (Genesis 15:4) And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, "This man shall not be your heir; your own son shall be your heir. It states that God said to Abraham that only the one who comes from your body is the one who is your real son. So, an adopted son is not the real son according to Bible and Quran. So, marrying the wife of a person who is not ones son is indeed not objectionable. This was one of the common practices of the people of that time that they consider their adopted sons to be the real ones. At the hands of Muhammad (s), God destroyed all the ignorant traditions of that time. God, who sent his dear messenger to illuminate the whole world, commanded him to marry a divorced woman of his adopted son. People who continue to blame Muhammad for violating the family terms then they should read the following verses from Bible.

While illustrating the ancestors of Jesus in (Mathew 1:3), it is mentioned that Tamar was amongst the ancestors of Jesus. So, kindly read what kind of family relations she kept with her true father in law which is mentioned at (Genesis 38:6 to 18)?

According to Christians, all the Christian man and women are the wives of Jesus. But they don’t accept only few women as the wives of Muhammad. (Matthew 7:3) And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Brides: Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ… Episode 3

     Muhammad (s), at the time he was a young man, married a woman who was more then 15 years older then him. And as long as she was alive, he didn’t marry any other women. But after the sad demise of his wife, he married some other women. Muhammad (s) wanted to spread Islamic teachings across Arabia and ultimately to the whole world. So, in order to widely spread the Islamic teachings across women, he married few intellectual, moral and pious women. That’s why he married different women. And it is quite evident from the history that his goal was perfectly achieved. Muslims still believe that they have learned half of their religion from Ayesha who was one of the wives of Muhammad. Then another reason for getting married to different women was that marrying women from different tribes ultimately resulted in the open interaction with those tribes and Islam was introduced to those tribes as well. Due to which many tribes got to know about the teachings of Islam. Arabs of that time were distributed amongst different tribes and those divisions were a great reason for their enmity. And those marriages ultimately united and develop peace between those different tribes. Whenever women used to have any questions regarding Islam they just asked any of the wives of Muhammad. Further I have found following reasons of his multiple marriages:

- Establishing Peace and Harmony
- Elimination of bad customs
- Reformation of people (especially the education and rights of women)
- Protection of widows

      Learn half of the religion from Ayesha (r);does the bible give this honor to a woman that she can speak about the religion openly anywhere? Sorry to say, but the answer is No. Because women are not allowed to deliver speeches in the Churches. Kindly read the following references that are extracted from Bible.

1 Timothy 3:11 to 15, 1 Corinthians 14:35.

     But Muslims learned many Islamic teachings from Ayesha who were one of the wives who were under the direct guidance of Muhammad. Even Umar, the second successor of Muhammad and Great king of that time used to ask Ayesha (r) in making some important decisions. Marrying Ayesha (r) who was only at least 15-16 years old at the time of marriage also had many important reasons, I am going to write very soon a detail article about the marriage issue of Muhammad (s) in which I will also disuses the Ayesha’s (r) age (insahallah). Muhammad’s (s) marriage with Ayesha has brought a lot benefit for Muslim world. The reason for marrying with (only one) younger girl was that he wanted to convey as much teachings and knowledge as he could to a young girl who had a very good memory and expected to live very long even after him. That’s the reason that there are thousands of traditions that were narrated by Ayesha as she had a very good memory and were very close to him. From her knowledge Muslims took lot of benefit even after Muhammad (s). And many teachings were spread across men and women through Ayesha and other wives. All of the wives of Muhammad (s) were either divorced or widows, the only exception is Ayesha (r). And I have already stated some reasons of that (I will soon upload detail article on this topic insahallah, so reader can consult that article for detail information).

When Muhammad (s) was young, he didn’t marry any young girl, as he loved piety and always used to do things which had pious reasons associated with them. He found Khadija (r) to be a very pious women and he married her. The enemies of Muhammad (s) offered him many times to marry any or as much women as he liked, but he just rejected their worldly offers. According to Bible some prophets before Jesus married twice, thrice and even hundreds of women with hundreds of concubines. And bible stated no valid reasons for that. Readers of Bible would be fully aware of that.

Brides: Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ… Episode 2

     If we accept this argument for a while that Jesus didn’t get married to any woman, then we find that there was no “great” reason for that. As his own father got married to a woman then why Jesus didn’t follow the path of his father? So, if we take Jesus as son god, we see that he didn’t follow the heavenly tradition of his own father. And if we take Jesus as a Prophet, then we see that he didn’t follow the traditions of the earlier prophets. So, he ultimately violated the divine laws which were given to the prophets before him. Kindly read (Mathew 5:17) Do not think I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did come to destroy but to fulfill. But actually he destroyed the laws of the Prophets and if he didn’t then it only means that he lied to people. And the objection that Muhammad being a man, proposed a woman who was 20 years older then him is indeed baseless. As the “God” of Christians himself purposed a young lady who cannot even be compared to God as they were totally different being (certainly their ages cannot be compared, in fact they have nothing in common). Can anyone imagine such insensible and baseless argument? 

             There is no “great” reason of not getting married. In fact, by getting married one is safe from committing many other sins. As Bible says (1 Corinthians 5:1) that by getting married a society remains safe from evils and to avoid fornication and adultery it is better to get married (1 Corinthians 7:1 to 2), then why didn’t Jesus got married? A person who does not marry and thinks that by doing this he is more pious then the person who married somebody is indeed a very unjustified claim.

Brides: Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ… Episode 1

           According to accuser Yashua (Jesus) never married and never was the father of earthly children, but that doesn’t mean He has no bride. Just as Israel is spoken of as a wife to Jehovah in the Old Testament, so the Lord Jesus Christ is spoken of having a bride. John the Baptist referred to the Lord Yahshua as the Bridegroom in John 3:29-He that has the bride is the Bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, that stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegrooms voice, this my joy therefore is made full, and Paul reminded the Corinthians that he had espoused them as a chaste virgin to Christ,(2corinth.11:2)-For I am jealous over you with a righteous jealousy, for i expoused you to one husband, that I might present you a pure virgin to the Messiah. The lord Yashua will someday come back and take His bride to heaven with Him, His bride being made up of all truly born-again Christians. The union between Jesus and His bride is a spiritual union, not a physical one.

While Mohammed, had many wives. His first wife, Khadija, was a business woman who proposed to him, though he was twenty years younger than she was, he married at least 10 women and had a number of concubines. The youngest wife he took was a nine year old named A’isha. He married to his adopted son’s wife named Zainab.

Answer: According to Bible, Mary carried the son of God, which ultimately means that Mary was the wife of God. But it doesn’t say anything about why she carried a child of God; as later she then got married to another ordinary man on this earth. It means that God got married to a woman on this earth which was not only the wife of God but also of a person named as Joseph. Even in Islam it is prohibitied to marry the wife of Prophet which Joseph married to the wife of God. So it means Mary got married twice. But it is not mentioned in the Bible that did God divorce Mary before she got married to Joseph.

Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ (Please note)

I am writing the answers of the allegations which were raised by Christens against Muhammad (s) the founder of Islam. But it is very important to understand that I will be depicting the picture of Biblical Jesus and bringing forth Biblical Jesus (who never existed in reality and claimed to be God). So, my readers should take this into consideration that the true Jesus was indeed the one who was a humble prophet of God; the one presented by the Holy Quran; who lived a pious life as a man and died as a man and raised to a spiritual station as a soul and here I don’t talk about him.

Birth: Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ… Episode 6

The Prince Of Peace

Lets us go on now to Isaiah. Here we find many passages about a coming prophet which can be true only of Muhammad. We are told of a time when a man will call the nations of the world who would swiftly answer his call and gather around him (Isaiah5:26-30).

We are told that the followers of the Promised One will be obliged to take part in wars. We are told that the advent of this prophet will be at a time when even the light will be darkened by the sin and corruption of land and sea. Isaiah also tells us that at the time God will turn away His face from the house of Jacob (Isaiah 8:13-17).

And then: For unto us a Child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. (Isaiah 9:6- 7) The prophecy gives promise of a king who will have five titles:
  • Wonderful
  • Counsellor
  • The Mighty God
  • The Everlasting Father and
  • The Prince of Peace

Was Jesus ever a King? Were the names enumerated in this prophecy ever applied to him? Wonderful he might have been called, because of peculiar birth, but while his deniers regarded his birth as illegitimate, his supporters were in doubt about his ancestry. He gave no exhibition of the might that is mentioned in the above verse. Nor could he be called Everlasting Father, because he himself had mentioned another one coming after him. He neither became king nor could he ever bring peace to the world. He remained oppressed by his opponents until he was put on the Cross. He could not, therefore, be rightly called the Prince of Peace. He never attained to any government and, therefore, the words, "of his government there shall be no end," have no meaning in terms of his life. These signs mentioned in Isaiah apply only to the Prophet of Islam.It was he who had to shoulder the responsibilities of a state, and thus, quite against his will, had to be called king.

Muhammad was Wonderful both in his name and achievements. Jesus, in his parable of the vineyard, speaks of the householder who let his vineyards to husbandmen. These wicked men not only beat, killed and stoned his other servants but also his son. The lord, says Jesus, will come himself, destroy these wicked husbandmen and render the vineyard to those who "shall render the fruits in their seasons." This will be so because:The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the comer; and this is the Lord’s doing, and it marvelous in our eyes. (Matthew 21:33-44)

This is the way in which the "Wonderful" one had to appear. When the son would be slain, then the other one would be sent who would prove to be the head of the corner. And he would seem "marvelous" in the eyes of Jesus and the whole world.And about his wonderful achievements we may quote Thomas Carlyle. He writes:

To the Arab nation it was a birth from darkness into light; Arabia first become alive by means of it. A poor shepherd people, roaming unnoticed in its deserts since the creation of the world, a hero-prophet was sent down to them with a word they could believe: see, the unnoticed becomes world-notable, the small has grown world-great,’ within one century afterward, Arabia is at Grenada on this hand, Delhi on that, glancing in valor and splendor and the light of genius, Arabia shines through long ages over a section of the world. Belief is great, long-living, The history of a nation becomes fruitful, soul-elevating, great, so soon as it believes. These Arabs, the man Mahomet and that one century-is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what seemed black, unnoticeable sand, but 10, the sand proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Grenada. I said ,the great man was always a lightning out of heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel and then they too would flame.
(Thomas Carlyle in Heroes and Hero-worship
)
The second name of the Promised One is Counsellor. This again applied to the Holy Prophet. A nation turned to him for advice. He, in turn, held regular consultation with his people, and made it obligatory on the State to consult the people in all  important matters. The Holy Quran tells us that his companions sought his consultation regularly.

The prophecy had also described him as mighty God. The Bible has often mentioned the prophets as God himself. (Exodus 7:1 and 4:16)Whenever a human being is spoken of as a "like of God" it can only mean that he is a manifestation of the Almighty .The Holy Prophet, again, answers the description of the prophecy. There are several references relevant to this in the Holy Quran. At the Battle of Badr, the prophet took a handful of gravel and threw it at the enemy. This proved a signal for a dust storm which discomfited the enemy and contributed to his defeat. Of this, God says to the Holy Prophet:

And thou threwest not when thou didst throw, but it was God who threw. (The Holy Quran 8:18)Again it says:

Verily those who swear allegiance to thee indeed swear allegiance to God. (The Holy Quran 48:11)Thus came the manifestation of mighty God, The Holy Prophet, who was able to subjugate all his enemies in his lifetime and to smash all opposition.

The fourth name in the prophecy is Everlasting Father. Jesus was sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel and, therefore, could not possibly have an everlasting character. On the other hand, the Holy Prophet was referred to in the Quran as "bringer together of all mankind". (The Holy Quran 34:29). He was promised that his teaching would abide forever with the people because at the end of days, the Promised Messiah would appear from among his followers and would revive the teachings of Islam and prove conclusively that the spiritual dominion of the Prophet of Islam was everlasting and there would be no heavenly teachers then except from his followers.The fifth name in the prophecy is Prince of Peace. Can Jesus be truly called such? He did not become a sovereign in his life. He did not ever gain power to administer forgiveness to his enemies, and therefore, there was not much occasion for him to perform what he preached. On the other hand, the very religion of Muhammad is called Islam, meaning peace. As for the performance of peace and forgiveness in Muhammad’s life we have ample evidence.

Through thirteen long and weary years the prophet of Islam and his little band of devoted followers bore with calm dignity and patience the bitterest persecution at the hands of the Meccans. Starvation, flogging, scoffings, humiliations, degradations and outrages of every description were the order of the day. When the Prophet took refuge in Medina, even there he was not left in peace. Over a period of seven years of sustained and brutal persecution the Prophet of Islam appeared suddenly on the heights of Paran, at the head of ten thousand saints, with no battle fought and not a drop of blood shed, when any penalty inflicted upon these Meccans would have been light in comparison to their long record of misdeeds, the Prophet announced, gently and mercifully:There shall be no retribution exacted from you, you shall all go free. (The Holy Quran 12:93)

Is it the same way that the Christians treated their enemies when they came to power? Who should then be called a true Prince of Peace, Jesus or Muhammad? Jesus could not afford peace to others. His followers were able to afford it, but they did not give it. The prophet of Islam had the power to punish his enemies but he chose to forgive. Muhammad, therefore, was the Prince of Peace of Isaiah’s prophecy. It was he again who also attained government and thus could fulfill the last part of this prophecy saying, "Of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end."

(this part has been taken from the article written by Dr. Khalil Ahmad Nasir: http://www.alislam.org/books/in-bible/index.html)

Birth: Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ… Episode 5

 

The Earth Was Full Of His Praise

This advent was also prophesied by Habakkuk several centuries before Jesus. Thus we have:

God comes from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the ea11h was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand5: and there was the hiding of his power. Before him went the pestilence, and the burning coals went fo11h at his feet. He stood and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, and the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; and the cu11ain of the land of Midian did tremble. (Habakkuk 3:3-7)

This again shows that the third manifestation mentioned earlier was going to be by one who would appear from the land of Tema and Mount Paran. The earth was going to be full of his praise. It is not a mere accident, then, that the Holy Prophet of Islam was named Muhammad, which literally means, the Praised One. Only a man with a name as beautiful as his personality and character could answer to the description of Habakkuk. The enemies of Muhammad suffered destruction, pestilence and humiliation of "burning coals" in encountering him in spite of overwhelmingly stronger and larger forces.

Moses died while he was still fighting his enemies. Jesus was put on the Cross. The prophet who beheld and drove the nations asunder, as mentioned by Habakkuk, could be, there- fore, none else but Muhammad. His enemies who looked like "everlasting mountains and perpetual hills" with their immense power were completely routed. Later "the tents of Cushan" and the "curtains of the land of Midian," that is, the land of Canaan then under the Roman Caesar, also found their salvation in surrendering to the servants of the Holy Prophet in the time of that Caesar’s successors.

(this part has been taken from the article written by Dr. Khalil Ahmad Nasir: http://www.alislam.org/books/in-bible/index.html)

Birth: Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ… Episode 4

Divine Light From Paran

The prophecies of the Bible had even led its followers to that part of the world where the great Prophet was to appear. Thus it was said:

And he said, the Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; and shined forth from Mount Paran and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them. (Deuteronomy 33:2)

In this verse Moses is promised three manifestations of the glory of God. The first of these appeared on Sinai in the time of Moses. Time passed. The second manifestation promised in the prophecy was to take place at Seir, a part of the world near where the miracles of Jesus took place. "Rising up from Seir," therefore, meant the advent of Jesus.

The third manifestation of divine glory was to take its rise from Paran, and Paran (Arabic Faran) is the name of the hills which lie between Mecca, the birth place of Muhammad, and Medina, the town where he died. According to the Old Testament, Ishmael, the ancestor of Muhammad, lived in this part. Thus we have in the Bible:

And God was with the lad (Ishmael): and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. (Genesis 21:20-21)

Historical and geographical evidence shows that the descendents of Abraham lived in Arabia. All of them held Mecca and Kaaba, the house of worship built by Abraham, in great reverence. His son Ishmael first settled in Mecca. Genesis gives the names of twelve sons of Ishmael including two named Tema and Kedar. (Genesis 25:13-16) This is further supported by the testimony of Isaiah where we read:

The burden of Arabia. In the forest of Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye traveling companies of Dedanim. The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they provided with their bread him that fled. For they fled from the swords, from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it. (Isaiah 21:13-16)

This prophetic passage is a picture of the Battle of Badr which took place about a year after the Holy Prophet’s migration from Mecca to Medina. In this battle the sons of Kedar , the people of Mecca and the territories around, unable to withstand the fierceness of Muslim swordsmen and archers, sustained disastrous defeat. God made a handful of men, poorly armed and without provisions, the means of inflicting this humiliation on an army led by experienced generals.

The battles with the Meccans continued against heavy odds until such time that the Prophet Muhammad entered Mecca after a struggle of several years. This was the time when ten thousands of saints accompanied him. The Holy Prophet declared that the message of God had been completed in the form of the Holy Quran. Thus the prophecy of Moses was fulfilled that the Lord would shine forth from Paran with ten thousands of saints, with a fiery Law in his right hand. Thus also the prophecy of Jesus was fulfilled that the spirit of Truth "will guide you into all truth." His fiery Law, the Holy Quran, consumed all impurities of flesh and turned the grossest hearts into pure gold.

Could Jesus have fulfilled this wonderful prophecy? He did not rise from Paran. He had only twelve disciples and not ten thousand saints. Isaiah had spoken of one that fled; the flight of Muhammad is such an important part of Muslim history that the Islamic calendar starts from the very year of migration.

(this part has been taken from the article written by Dr. Khalil Ahmad Nasir: http://www.alislam.org/books/in-bible/index.html)

 

Birth: Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ… Episode 3

Now about Muhammad prophecies; (this part has been taken from the article written by Dr. Khalil Ahmad Nasir: http://www.alislam.org/books/in-bible/index.html)

A Prophet From Thy Brethren:

The fact is that before Jesus, Moses had also foretold of a great prophet in clear and precise words. When Moses went to Mount Horeb under the command of God he addressed the Israelites saying:

The Lord thy God will raise unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me, unto him ye shall hearken. (Deuteronomy 18:15)

And again, God’s words to Moses:

I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass that, whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name; I will require it of him. (Deuteronomy 18:18-19)

It is evident from these verses that Moses foretold a Law-giving Prophet who was to appear after him, and who was to be from among the brethren of Israel. That he was to be a Law-giver and not an ordinary Prophet is obvious from the words "like unto Moses", since Moses was also a Law-giver. The promulgation of "a new Law" means the initiation of a new movement, a new nation. A prophet with a new Law is obviously no ordinary teacher or reformer. He has to present a comprehensive teaching, incorporating fundamental principles as well as detailed rules.

Was Jesus such a prophet? Was he a Law-giver? Did he bring a new Law into the world to replace an old one? The answer, in his own words:

Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto You, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law, till all be fulfilled. (Matthew 5:17-18)

And the followers of Jesus went so far as to declare:

And the Law is not of faith: but, the man that doeth them shall live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law. (Galatians 3:12-13)

Jesus laid no claim to a new Law; his disciples regarded the Law as a curse. It was the Holy Quran which announced from the very outset that:

This is the (complete and perfect) Book; there is nothing of doubt in it. It is a guidance for the righteous. (The Holy Quran 2:3)

The prophecy also said that the Promised One was to be raised not from among Israel but from their brethren. Muhammad was from the brethren of the Israelites, the Ishmaelites.

It also told that God would put his words in his mouth. The New Testament gospels do not consist of words which God put in Jesus’s mouth. They only tell us his story and what he himself and his disciples said and did.

The Holy Quran, on the other hand, says:

Say, O Muhammad, I am a man like unto you: Only the word of God come unto me. (The Holy Quran 18: 111)

The prophecy spoke of "words which he shall speak in my name." Strange as it may seem, there is not a single example of words which Jesus may be said to have received from God with the command to pass them on. The Holy Quran, on the other hand, specifically claimed to be the word from God.

The words of the Lord had announced that the Promised One would be a prophet. Jesus, according to the Christian evangelists, did not claim to be a prophet. Matthew reports that he asked his disciples:

"Whom do men say that I the son of man ..?"
Peter replied that he was the Christ. the Son of the living God.
(Matthew 16:13-16)

Thus Jesus denied being either John the Baptist or Elias or one of the prophets. Muhammad was proclaimed as not only a prophet but also as "like unto Moses," when the Quran said:

Verily We have sent to you a Messenger, who is a witness over you, even as we sent a Messenger to Pharaoh. (The Holy Quran 73:16)

In short, one thousand nine hundred years before the advent of the prophet of Islam, Moses declared that his own Law was, in the divine scheme, not the last Law; that the world was to have a fuller Law later on; and that, for this God would send in the latter days another Messenger of His. This Messenger was to teach all truth; it was he who was to mark the last stage in the spiritual advance of man. The world had to wait for another book and another Prophet.

If, therefore, the Quran and the Holy Prophet have come after the Bible and after the Prophets Moses and Jesus, and if they claim to have come from God as guidance to man, their claim must be treated as just and true. It must be taken as the Fulfillment of ancient prophecies. The revelation of the Quran was not a gratuitous revelation, a  redundance in the presence of other revelations. Indeed, if the Quran had not been revealed, promises made by God through His messengers would have gone unfulfilled, and the world would have become afflicted with doubt and disbelief.

Birth: Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ… Episode 2

According to accuser Muhammad (s) was born in a poor family and he was an ordinary man with ordinary family background. His father died and his mother passed away when he was child, he was raised by his grandfather. There are no great claims made by Muslim regarding to birth of Muhammad (s). While Christ birth was miraculous; He was born of a virgin.

Answer: Muhammad was born in a house of leader (very Noble family) of Makkah. And His forefathers were Ishmaelites and Abraham was the ancestor of Ishmaelites.

Muhammad (s) never saved money for himself or for his family, he always used to spend his money on poor and needy people. Can death of his father and mother is any kind of blame or can anyone tell my any verse of Bible in which bible says that if anyone’s father is dead then he is false Prophet?.

Muhammad was raised by his grandfather and then his uncle just like Moses was brought up in Pharaoh’s home (Exodus 2). What one would consider about Joseph who was raised in an officer of Pharaoh (Genesis 39). I don’t know why Christians have problem related to this. Did they have any proof that a prophet should be raised by his own family?

Christians always raised this point that Christ was born without father, so that is why he has very noble birth and son of God. If Christ was lord because of his birth from virgin then what you call to Adam who was without father and mother (in this sense he was double god) and Bible also called him Adam, which was the son of God(Luke 3:38).

And why you don’t call son of God to Melchisedec, king of Salem, King of righteousness; King of peace. Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. (Hebrews 7:1-3)

Why you don’t call son of God to Buddha because Buddha was born of a virgin without carnal intercourse" (Hinduism by Williams, pp. 82 and 108).

What about unisexual organism, which are also single parents? These births are also quite ordinary.

Hope someone will think over it.

Birth: Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ… Episode 1

(Isa 7:14)- Therefore Yahweh (God) himself (Christ?) will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear son (female give birth to god?), and shall call his name Immanu El.

First we talk about this prophecy, Why Christians don’t write full prophecy. The remaining verse inwhich means God with usnow let me give you only two examples form the life of Jesus. 

First: Can anyone provide any verse of Bible in which someone calls Jesus Immanu El. But in bible when ever an angel appears he calls his name Jesus (Matthew 1:25), (Luke 1:31) then why Christians called him Immanu El. Immane El means God is with us now we see what happens in the case of Jesus. Christians’ god was temped by devil for 40 days, and devil accompanied him for 40 days.

(Luke 4:13) And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. Please note the wordhe departed from him for a season”.

Second: What was the second last sentence of Jesus (Matthew 27:46) Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

I think there is no need to explain these verses….. So was that ‘the person’ who claimed to be ‘Immanu El’.

In Bible James 1:13, 14, 15 "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death”. So what is the position of so-called god (Christ) after this verse?

But if someone read bible then one sees that this word is used for someone else Who’s real name was Maher-shalal-hash-baz. Please read and check this reference Isaiah 8.

Jesus (biblical Jesus) could produce only 12 friends, one sold his faith (or his God) for few coins, one rejected him three times. So only 10 people accepted him in his whole life (totally failed in his mission) So, can anybody call him ’Immanu El’.

Some Christians feel so proud to say that the name of Jesus was foretold. Let me say that there is nothing to be proud of. In daily life, we see that some times before birth someone tells something about baby and even his name. Even I have several examples of such incident in my family. So, what is the point which makes him special?

Lives: Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ… Episode 6

Christians believe that Jesus didn’t fight as his teachings were totally based on tolerance and peace. During the whole life time of Jesus; He didn’t fight because Jesus says Matthew 8:20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

It means that Jesus didn’t have enough power to resist anyone. During the lifetime of Christ, he had only twelve faithful followers and amongst those, none of them were able to fight or to resist. Because, as history shows, most of them were coward that’s why when a difficult time came on Christ they all ran away. But it doesn’t mean that Christ didn’t like weapon or resistence, because he once instructed his disciples Luke 22:36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. This is not enough Christ also teach that in Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. So, it means that he was sent to bring sword on the earth, but he didn’t have enough power to do so. Those who say that Christ was a peaceful man and never liked to raise a sword should kindly read the above mentioned verses very thoroughly. Christens feel so proud on showing one example from his life (Luke 22:50-51)-and a certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. But Yashua answered and said, Permit them thus far. And he touched his ear and healed him. But I think they don’t even read the life of Muhammad (s). Yes it is right that Muhammad (s) commanded the army of 10,000 faithful followers. May be some people would be surprised that this is something which was also written in Bible as a prophecy (Deuteronomy 33:2) And he said, the Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; and shined forth from Mount Paran and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law (Quran) for them. Paran (Arabic Faran) is the name of the hills which are situated between Mecca, the birth place of Muhammad (s), and Medina, the town where he died. According to the Old Testament, Ishmael, the ancestor of Muhammad (s), lived in this part. Thus we have in the Bible: And God was with the lad (Ishmael): and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. (Genesis 21:20-21)The Arabic form of the word Paran is Faran or Pharan. Jacut’s Geographishes Worterbuch (F. Westenfielt, Leipzig, 1862, Vol. III, P834) says that Faran is a name of Mecca. The word Faran seems to be the Arabic Farran. It means two refugees. It appears that the place took the name from Hager and Ishmaelas, who came there as refugees. Dr. A. Benisch calls it in his translation of Pentateuch the desert of Paran.

   People raised this allegation against Muhammad (s) but he didn’t tell us that was anybody killed at that time (victory of Mecca)? Nobody was killed there, everyone was forgiven by Muhammad (s) even those who were the blood thirsty of Muslims, who killed Muslims and through them Muslims were extremly suffered. No houses were destroyed, not a single tree was cut down, no eradication. No women, old, children were killed, and no holy places were destroyed (in contrast with biblical Holy war where houses, trees, women, children, pregnant women, holy places, holy people even the buried dead bodies were eradicated), only Muhammad (s) cleaned Kaba from idols just like Jesus cleaned temple of God Matthew 21:12, Luke 19:46. Only few people (enemy of Muslims) attacked on muslims outside the Mecca so Muslim had to defend themselves. So they fought for their lives but when Muhammad (s) heard about it he felt so sad about that. Muhammad (s) showed his mercy on those who brutally killed his very close relatives, killed his followers and even those who tried to kill him as well by poison, by sword, by persecution for more then 20 years in different ways.

Why they don’t realize that Christ had no other option but to show mercy as he never gained power. But if he had an option then he would have fulfilled his purpose of advent which he mentioned in Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. But Muhammad entered that city as a victorious king but he showed his mercy not just because he had no power but because he was a merciful man. I don’t know why Christians don’t feel ashamed to raise objections against Islam for being so intolerant religion. I think they don’t thoroughly read the Bible. There are about 500 verses in Bible about War (Jihad). These people are just ignorant about the true teachings of Islam. They just tried to fool the people by hiding the facts and by providing wrong arguments. People should read the Biblical War and how the biblical kings entered into cities and how much blood they shed?

For further details please visit:

http://www.alislam.org/holyprophet/ http://www.alislam.org/terrorism.html

http://www.alislam.org/jihad/

Lives: Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ… Episode 5

Now about the sins of Muhammad (s); Matthew 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Matthew 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

Before raising any objection against Muhammad (s), please first read Bible and see what it says about Christ? What about Christ when he was tempted from devil and devil lived with him or accompanied him for 40 days?  According to accuser the devil visited Muhammad (s) two times when he was a child, although accuser doesn’t give any reference of this blame. But anyway if in his whole life, devil came to Muhammad (s) only two times, when he was only 12 years old. According to bible Children are pure as gospels; see Mark 10:14-15 that’s why Jesus advised to be a child, but what about the Christ who was 30 years old but devil still used to visit him often as this is written Luke 4:13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. And again visited him in different shapes Matthew 16:23 Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me.

Christians consider Jesus to be the son of God. So, they believe in a god who can be tempted from devil. Not once, but constantly for 40 days. And even after those 40 days, the devil departed from him for a season, not for ever. If this is the condition of Christian’s god, then one can clearly think the situation of the creation of their god. If god cannot stay away from devil then how much power do the Christians have to stay away from a devil which has enough power to take over their god for more then 40 days? Before raising objection against a man of God, please try to ask your god why he was tempted from devil?

Lives: Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ… Episode 4

The claim of Savior and sacrifice was not present in Old Testament. Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. Proverbs 21:3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. And read Ezekiel 18:17-32. In New Testament Jesus say Matthew 9:13 I will have mercy, and not sacrifice.And Jesus also doesn’t believe on concept of saviour of sinful men as he says in Bible Matthew 12:37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. Further he says John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. And his Brother James who was the leader of Jerusalem after Jesus also doesn’t believe on this theory as he says James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? And more he says in James 2:24 by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. This statement of James totally demolish the fake theory of Saviour of Christianity. The theory of saviour is totally absent in Old Testament as well as in the New Testament (basic four books) which actually belong to Jesus and real followers of Jesus, Because Jesus says in Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 

But this theory was developed by St.Paul later, for more information about this topic I do recommend the book Christianity: A Journey from Facts to Fiction written by Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad http://www.alislam.org/library/books/christianity_facts_to_fiction/index.html

Lives: Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ… Episode 3

For those who think that; was there any great miracle that Muhammad (s) showed? I want to mention only one and the greatest miracle of Muhammad (s) i.e. “the Holy Quran”. As it is written (Deuteronomy 33:2) from right hand went a fiery law for them. May be some people will take it a very baseless argument but I will prove that this is indeed true. Why God sends Prophets and why Prophets show miracles? Because God wants to protect his creation from Satan and satanic forces, God wants to guide people towards the right path. Prophets show miracles to increase faith. As the tree is identified by its fruits (as the Jesus said); if any miracle increases faith to a great extent then and only then that miracle can be called a great miracle. And if it could not bring the results it was intended to then one cannot call it a miracle indeed. Just like if a person takes a medicine but it does not cure that man, then for that person that specific medicine is useless, no matter how much expensive, great that medicine is. Now let’s see whether the followers of Bible somehow succeeded to increase their faith and put themselves to the right path by looking at those “great” miracles? When we read the Bible then we see that the people who saw those miracles could not even judge the unity of God. Let’s just take the example of Israelites, when Moses went on a mountain only for 40 days then his followers who saw those miracles started worshiping golden calf. Please see Exodus 32:1-8, Hosea descried their condition in following verse Hosea 3:1 according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods. Hosea 6:4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. So these are the ultimate results of those miracles shown by Moses (a). When we read the Bible then we see that Jesus who taught his disciples to worship and pray to only one God (Matthew 6:9), after some time the follower of Jesus started worshiping 3 gods on the theory of 1=3 and 3=1 … the theory which is totally absent in the Old testament. There were so many “great” miracles shown by Christ but those miracles could not increase the faith of his followers even equal to a grain of sand. So the output was ultimately zero. But if we see that Muhammad (s) showed his miracle of Holy Quran and until now Muslim worship only one God of Abraham, only one God of Moses, and only one God of Quranic Jesus.

Muhammad (s) only gave them that book which was the “word of God”. Those words of God changed the people, who used to worship stones and woods, into the worshipers of only one GOD. Those who used to believe in more then 300 gods, that Quran changed them and they started worshiping one God of Abraham. Those who were completely illiterate and sunk into dark ages for centuries became great teachers of the world. Those who used to pass their whole nights in drinking wine and committing adultery started passing their nights in crying before God. Those who were drinking wine five times a day started worshiping God at least five times a day. Those who were spending money on adultery or useless matters started spending money in the way of God for feeding poor and orphans. Those who were killing poor and slaves started loving them and started giving them comfort. Those who had no sense of human rights became the protectors of weak. The Arabs who used to kill their young and newborn girls started taking full care of them. The great saying ‘paradise lies under the feet of mother’ became one of their objectives of life. In other words we can say that the miracle of Moses and Jesus didn’t develop as much faith as Quran (the miracle of Muhammad (s)) developed.

Prophets are neither jugglers nor magicians. They are not sent to the world to entertain people with their strange ’supernatural’ powers, deeds and tricks. Jesus or the miracles written in Bible about different other prophets are just exaggerations from different followers. All followers of prophets try to exaggerate about their prophets (due to several reasons like inferiority complex, gaining authority etc) to show that ’their’ prophet was better.

The Promised Messiah (a) wrote about this miracle in the following beautiful words: What was this, do you know? This most wonderful thing which happened in the wilderness of Arabia? Spiritually dead millions became alive again in a matter of days; those without eyes began to see, those without speech began to speak the language of seers gifted with divine knowledge. This was a revolution which no eye had seen before nor had an ear heard of it before. What was it, do you know? It was a miracle performed by the mighty prayers of a man who had dedicated his life to God. Prayers offered in the dead of night. These prayers shook the world. They wrought changes impossible for an unlettered person to bring about.

God! shower Thy blessings and send peace on this man! Bless not only him but also those who come after him and follow him! Remove their fears, their sorrows, their anxieties. And on this his Umma, shower Thy Bounties and Thy Blessings until the end of days.

(Barkat-al Dua pg. 10-11)

Lives: Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ… Episode 2

Now, about the miracles of Christ; in the start I want to say that every Prophet has been showing different miracles then other Prophets. If one says that that Christ showed the miracles which were not shown by Muhammad (s) that’s why Muhammad (s) was a false prophet then it is a very baseless objection. Because if you believe on this theory then we put the same question to you that why not Christ showed the miracles like Moses? Please have a look at the following miracles of Moses,

  • Turned a rod into a snake which swallowed all the Snakes of Egyptians. Exodus 7:10-12

  • Turned water throughout the land of Egypt into blood. Exodus 7:17-20, 7:10-12

  • Swarmed the land of Egypt with frogs. Exodus 8:6

  • Turned dust of the land into lice. Exodus 8:17 (this miracle is belong to Aaron)

  • Sprinkled ashes into the air and caused a plague of boils and blains. Exodus 9:10

  • Split the sea by striking it with a rod hence making dry land for the Israelites to cross the sea. Exodus 14:21

 

These kinds of miracles are written in bible and none of them were shown by Christ. So, in this way anyone especially Jews can explicitly say that Christ showed no miracle. People should understand that every Prophet shows different miracles then other prophets. But let’s take a look on gospels that did Jesus really show any miracles? We see this statement of Jesus many times which I want to mention here (Matthew 12:39-40) An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. In (Luke 11:30) For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. In these verses Jesus says that ‘only one miracle will be shown which would resemble the miracle shown by Jonas’. So, from this reference it is clearly evident that he himself says that I will show only “one” miracle. And about the other miracles like feeding five thousand people with few loaves and fishes, walking on the water, raising the dead, giving sight to the blind, healing the crippled, cleansing the lepers. According to gospels, these kinds of miracles can be shown by any false prophet as well. Please look at Matthew 7:22, Mark 13:22.

Now please take a look at the verses mentioned at Matthew 17:20 If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Mark 21:21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.

Luke 17:6 If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

As it said that if somebody has a faith even equal to the grain of sand can show all these miracles. So can anyone in the whole world tell me a person who shows all these miracles? If not, then one has to accept either of the two things. First, Christ lied to the people by saying that one who has a faith can show these miracles. Second, nobody in the whole world has enough faith to show these miracles. If nobody is present today, then who can guarantee, that someone with such firm faith was present one or two or even ten centuries ago? It also means that all the Christians who believe in Christ do not have a faith even equal to a grain of sand because we don’t see any Christian today who shows these miracles.

It looks like “only” Christ showed those miracles, and in his life time, few thousands people saw those miracles. Unfortunately, only 12 accepted him and out of 12, one sold his faith just for 30 coins and one of them just rejected him 3 times. And at the time of cross 8 of them ran away and only two were present there. So this was the end result of Christ great miracles, that none amongst those thousands who ate fishes, none amongst those who were raised from death, none amongst those who were cured by Christ were with him. It is clearly evident that in the life of Christ, how much faith the followers of Christ used to have. And even in his life time, the people who could be counted on fingers and who used to have the “blessed” company of Christ did not have a faith equal to a grain of sand, and then who can be so sure that after the death (still controversial death) of Christ, the condition of faith would have improved?

Lives: Contrast and comparison of Muhammad (s) and Jesus Christ … Episode 1

I received an email from one of my Christen contacts with different allegations about the Holy Prophet (s). Thought, it was along email but the key allegations could be written as the following: 

Christ claimed to be from God while Mohammed claimed to speak for God, Christ lived his life without sin while Muhammad not. Christ performed miracles (feeding five thousand with a few loaves and fishes, walking on the water, raising the dead, giving sight to the blind, healing the crippled, cleansing the lepers, and casting out demons), while Mohammed did not. Christ refused to resort to violence, while Mohammed was very violent and killed many who opposed him. They are very different births, and very different lives.


I will try to answer these allegations in the coming episodes. But it is very important to understand that I will be depicting the picture of Biblical Jesus and bringing forth Biblical Jesus (who never existed in reality and claimed to be God). So, my readers should take this into consideration that the true Jesus was indeed the one who was a humble prophet of God; the one presented by the Holy Quran; who lived a pious life as a man and died as a man and raised to a spiritual station as a soul and here I don’t talk about him.

Claimant says that Jesus was free from all sins while Muhammad (s) committed sins. In order to prove his claim he quoted the following reference. 

(Heb4: 15)-For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one that has in all points been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help in time of need. First of all I want to make some comments about the aforementioned verse of Bible. This verse does not belong to any of the four basic gospels which were written by those companions of Jesus who listened to the teachings directly from Jesus. So let’s first check those four gospels which belong to those people who were under the direct guidance of Jesus. We find this reference (Luke 18:18) And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? None is good, save one, that is, God. Jesus himself declares that none is good, except God. If someone says that Jesus was God, then why did he say that “Why callest thou me good?”. So, it seems to be a contradiction that at one time, he calls himself God, and on the other hand he rejects that totally. As Christians believe that he was part of God. Then if one third of God is not ‘good’ then what is the guarantee that the rest of the part is also good enough? 

First objection on this reference is that it is still not confirmed that who the writer of Hebrews was? So in this sense this book is not an authority. Secondly, some people say that this belong to St. Paul. Authority of St. Paul’s writings can be clearly evident from the references that I am going to quote here. Throughout the life of Jesus, he was a great opponent of Jesus and his followers (Galatians 1:13-14). But after some years, when he felt that Christianity was going to spread day by day and some other political reasons, he claimed that Jesus appeared to him in his dream (self-made dream) and divinely chose him (Galatians 1:1) and he never ever listened even a single word from Jesus directly . Even he didn’t fully listen James (brother of Jesus) which was the leader in Jerusalem after the death of Jesus (according to Bible). So, by the aforementioned references and comments we cannot take the reference provided to prove that Jesus was totally free of sin to be an authentic one.

Caliph to Dutch people: Do not provoke God’s sense of honour

 

Huzur said time to time an upsurge against Islam emerges in Holland, however, it does not signify the entire Dutch people. Indeed many prominent Dutch people responded against Mr. Wilders’ statement. Huzur enumerated a few statements from political figures which denounced Mr. Wilders and added that a foreign affairs minister had said that Holland had no plans to ban the Holy Qur’an.

Huzur said it is the obligation of each Ahmadi to not only respond and refute the objections raised by the opponents but also to thank those who still uphold high moral values. Huzur said the message of God should be taken to people and the reasons of the chaos in the world explained to them; it should be explained to them that peace of mind is not in the bedazzlement of this world, or in intoxicants, it is only to be found in turning to God. Those who exceed all limits and in particular show aggression to Islam should also be reached and told not to provoke the sense of honour of God. Explain to them the natural disasters occurring around the world are a warning that no one is safe in the world. Huzur said most of Holland is below sea-level any way. Following a massive flood in 1953 the government launched a vast construction designed against the threat of flood. It is known as Delta Works.

Huzur said that he went to visit Delta Works where the engineer/guide told him that they have protected their country against floods to which Huzur responded that indeed they had but only made the best attempt to protect against flooding and that complete protection is only with God. Huzur said he agreed and all his subsequent talk referred to Delta Works as an ‘attempt’ and he thus affirmed the existence of God four or five times. Huzur said his remarks in the visitor’s book were that the Delta Works is indeed a good human endeavour and a tremendous plan, however, it should always be borne in mind that the real planning is God’s and in order to be really protected remembrance of God is required.

From the summary of the Friday Sermon delivered by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community on August 24th, 2007

Allegations against Ahmadiyyat (Episode 17) Why did Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (a) not perform Hajj?

This article is the seventeenth episode answers to some common allegations against Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Accusers say that why the Promised Messiah (a) didn’t perform Hajj? I, hereby, quote the answer of the Promised Messiah (a) about the same question.

The Promised Messiah (a) said: "These people raise this objection out of mischief. The Holy Prophet (s) lived ten years in Medina. It was only two days travel between Medina and Mecca, but Holy Prophet (s) did not perform Hajj for ten years, even though he could have arranged for conveyance. It is not the only condition for Hajj that one has sufficient wealth but it is also important that there is no danger of mischief and there should be means available to reach there with peace and to perform Hajj. When beasts like maulvis issue fatwa of death here and do not fear the government, then what else could they not do there? But these people have no interest that we do not perform Hajj. If we perform Hajj then will they consider us Muslims? And will they join our Jama’at? Well, firstly all these Muslim scholars should write a declaration that if we perform Hajj then all of them will repent on our hand and will enter our Jama’at and will become our followers. If they write as such and take an oath then we will perform Hajj. Allah will arrange means of convenience for us so that in future the mischief of maulvis ends. It is no good to object mischievously. This objection of theirs does not come on us but on Holy Prophet (saw) as well because Holy Prophet (s) performed Hajj in his last year only." (Malfoozaat, Vol. 5, p. 248)

This is indeed true. The Holy Prophet (s) could perform Hajj only in his last year; because that was the only convenient time for him to perform Hajj. It is commanded in the Holy Quran to perform Hajj only when are not kept back [2:197]. Many islamic scholars became bloodthirsty enemies of the Promised Messiah (a) and he was certainly kept back.

Caliph on headscarf issue: Muslims are responsible for presenting the right picture of Islam

 

‘They attack Islam for they are not aware of the beautiful teachings of Islam. They take certain extreme stances, like the furore on the issue of banning the headscarf. They are considering using legislation over this. The reason is that a most horrific picture of Islam has been presented to them and they do not know about the rightful and most beautiful picture of Islam. Had the Ahmadis residing here paid attention to this issue from the beginning and had introduced Ahmadiyyat, the true Islam, to people, I think this situation would not have arisen. There is still time. Present real Islam to them by way of a venture. I had drawn attention to this earlier but enough endeavours were not made. Our aim should always be to take goodwill and kindness to the world and this is what the teachings of Islam are all about. First and foremost we have to bring about pure changes in ourselves and our children and to promote good amongst ourselves.’

From the summary of the Friday Sermon delivered by the International Leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community on January 05th, 2007, in Nunspeet, Holland.

Mullah: ‘We have copyright on Islam’


By Tanzeel

Pakistan’s religious cartel has been agreed on the minimum common agenda that all Ahmedis are non Muslims and their entry into the religious market might reduce their profit share in the cake. Thus religious conglomerates of Pakistan have engineered separate laws to bar new player and even after declaring them Non Muslims they banned them to preach their version of Islam, let alone preaching, Pakistan is the only country where dominating religious scholars have established such a “Mullahpoly” that don’t even allow their competitor (Ahmedis) to even greet in Islamic way or recite Kalma however our traditional scholars are unaware of their competitor’s Guerilla Marketing strategy that relies on time, energy and imagination rather than a big marketing budget.

Typically, Ahmedis campaigns are unexpected and unconventional; potentially friendly and people are targeted in unexpected places. Their way of unique, engaging and thought-provoking concept has successfully generated buzz and people in Pakistan hold a soft corner for them unlike before, they are not only heard but their eccentric and nonviolent propagations have made people to probe their set of beliefs which they spread in very organized and peaceful manner.

Recently a private tv channel has aired a video of “Ahemdi” Mosque near Faisalabad where policemen were vehemently defacing the word Allah and Kalima from their mosque and that too during prayers. On the other hand when our so called religious scholar was asked to throw light on this callous issue he was not only adamant to his dim point of view but came up with imprudent examples of copyright (i.e Kalima and Allah’s name are the copyrights of Muslims) that ultimately made fun of himself and the religion resulting support to Ahmedi group from the human rights organizations as well as majority of moderate Pakistanis.

Read more: Paskistan Desk

Read the comments from Khalifatul Masih V on this issue

How Iraqi Freedom created a Lawless Iraq


Part 2

This documentary shows two things: Firstly, that the people of Iraq were never the goal of the American invasion. All the Americans have done is weaken the people by creating a lawless situation, whereby all the Iraqi’s can do is survive, and are defenceless in respect to the looting of their resources and the privitisation of their government. ‘Iraqi Freedom’ might aswell have been called ‘Lawless Iraq’; and Lawlessness might indeed be the cynical meaning behind the advertising of the word ‘Freedom’ by parties which have no concern with freedom at all.

Secondly, the documentary shows the poor state of Muslims, as their ignorance in respect to Islamic values is so serious, that their personal and community ethics are unable to defend justice when left ungoverned.

However, people in the West should not become arrogant at observing the helplessness of the Iraqi’s in respect to Law and Order, as the West will fare much worse, and their tribulation will probably come soon enough.

Verses prohibiting interest in the Holy Quran

[2:276] Those who devour interest do not rise except as rises one whom Satan has smitten with insanity. That is because they say: ‘Trade also is like interest;’ whereas Allah has made trade lawful and made interest unlawful. So he to whom an admonition comes from his Lord and he desists, then will that which he received in the past be his; and his affair is with Allah. And those who revert to it, they are the inmates of the Fire; therein shall they abide.

[2:277] Allah will abolish interest and will cause charity to increase. And Allah loves not anyone who is a confirmed disbeliever and an archsinner.

[2:278] Surely, those who believe and do good deeds, and observe Prayer and pay the Zakat, shall have their reward from their Lord, and no fear shall come on them, nor shall they grieve.

[2:279] O ye who believe! fear Allah and relinquish what remains of interest, if you are believers.

[2:280] But if you do it not, then beware of war from Allah and His Messenger; and if you repent, then you shall have your original sums; thus you shall not wrong, nor shall you be wronged.

[2:281] And if any debtor be in straitened circumstances, then grant him respite till a time of ease. And that you remit it as charity shall be better for you, if only you knew.

Read more on why we should abolish the interest-based economy in the Friday Sermon of October 31st, 2008 of Khalifatul Masih V (aba).

Traditions of the Promised Messiah

Tradition 1: Hafiz Hamid Ali relates: On one occasion, the Promised Messiah sent me on an errand to a foreign land. I boarded a vessel bound for my destination. About half way, the vessel was caught in a storm and everyone was terrified that it was going to sink. I tried to reassure all the passengers and stated confidently that I belonged to the Punjab and was going on an errand on behalf of one whom God had appointed his Prophet for this age and that so long as I was on the vessel, it would not sink. God Almighty thereafter stilled the waters and the vessel arrived safe at my destination and I disembarked. After a short stop it proceeded on its further voyage and sank after a short time. When the news reached India, members of my family went to Hazrat Sahib and told him that the vessel by which I was traveling had sunk; on which Hazrat Sahib said: I have heard that the vessel by which Hamid Ali was traveling sank on such and such a day; and after a few minutes he added: But Hamid Ali is busy with his errand. He is safe. It would seem that Hazrat Sahib had learnt the truth through a vision. (AlHakam, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, January 21, 1935, p. 5).

Hamid Ali’s brother, Shaikh Zainul Abideen, relates: Hazrat Sahib said: I have received a revelation concerning Hamid Ali that he would return safe and successful. (Register of Rivayat Sahaba, Vol. XI, p. 54).

 

Tradition 2: Hazrat Maulvi Nur-ud-Din relates: On one occasion in the course of a debate an opponent asked the Promised Messiah to cite a reference from Bokhari. Hazrat Sahib took hold of Bokhari and started turning over its pages very rapidly. Then he stopped at one place and said: Here is the reference. Everyone was surprised and someone inquired from Hazrat Sahib, how he had found the reference so quickly. He answered: When I took the book in my hand and started turning over its pages it seemed to me that the pages were blank. I turned them over quickly and then came to a page where I saw some writing and I was sure that that was the reference that I needed. (Siratul Mahdi, part 11, No. 306.)

Who is Dhul Qarnain? Prophecies about Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (a) in the Quran

 

    

 One, Hakim Mirza Mahmood Irani, in his letter dated 2nd September, 1902, has asked me to explain the meaning of the verse:

وَجَدَهَا تَغْرُبُ فِىْ عَيْنٍ حَمِئَةٍ


“He found it setting in a pool of murky water."

(Al-Kahf, 18:87)

  First of all, let it be clear that this verse holds so many secrets that it is impossible to encompass them all, and under the apparent meaning of this verse lie meanings that are not so easily understood. The meaning which God has disclosed to me is that when this verse is read along with the preceding and following verses, it constitutes a prophecy about the Promised Messiah and specifies the time of his advent. To elaborate this point, let me say that the Promised Messiah is also Dhulqarnain, because the Arabic word qarn connotes a century, and this verse indicates that the birth and advent of the Promised Messiah will span two centuries. And this clearly applies to me, for I have lived in two centuries according to every calendar I know of, be it Islamic, Christian or Bikrami, and my birth and advent have not been confined to a single century, and, in this sense, I am Dhulqarnain. In some Traditions, too, the Promised Messiah has been called Dhulqarnain in this very sense.
The interpretation of the rest of this verse, which is in the form of a prophecy, is that two major nations have been given the glad tidings of the Coming of the Promised Messiah, and it is to them that the Messiah will primarily address himself. God Almighty says, in the form of a metaphor, that the Promised Messiah, or Dhulqarnain, will encounter two nations in the course of his journey. First, he will find a nation sitting in the dark alongside a foul smelling pool of water that is not fit to drink, and is so full of stinking mud that it can hardly be called water. This metaphor refers to the Christians who are in the dark and have turned the Messianic spring into a pool of stinking mud due to their misdeeds. In the second part of his journey, the Promised Messiah, or Dhulqarnain, comes upon a people sitting directly under the blazing sun with no shelter. Though they do not partake of the light of the sun, its heat scorches their bodies and darkens their skins. These are the Muslims, who, despite being blessed with the sun of Divine Unity—Tauhid—have not derived any real benefit from it, and have only been scorched by its blaze. In other words, they have lost the true beauty and true moral qualities of faith and have instead partaken of bigotry, malice, fierceness and barbarity.
Thus, God Almighty has indicated that the Promised Messiah, who is Dhulqarnain, will appear at a time when the Christians will be in darkness, and stinking mud—which is hama’ in Arabic—will be their lot, and the Muslims will have only a superficial belief in the Unity of God, and will suffer from the sunburns of bigotry and barbarity, with no spiritual values left intact.
Then, the Messiah, who is Dhulqarnain, will come across a third people who will be suffering at the hands of Gog and Magog. These people will be deeply religious and pious by nature, and will seek the help of Dhulqarnain (the Promised Messiah) against the aggression of Gog and Magog. He will erect a bright rampart for them, i.e., he will teach them strong arguments in support of Islam which will finally repulse the attacks of Gog and Magog. He will wipe their tears, help them in every way and will stand by them. These are the people who accept me.
This is a grand prophecy which tells about my advent, my time and my Jama‘at. Blessed is he who reads these prophecies with care. The Holy Qur’an contains many prophecies of this kind whereby it speaks about someone in the past, but its purpose is to give news about the future. Surah Yusuf, for instance, is only a narrative on the face of it, but it contains the hidden prophecy that just as Joseph was initially looked down upon by his brothers but was made their chief in the end, the same will happen to the Quraish. They rejected the Holy Prophet sa and expelled him from Mecca, but he who had been rejected became their leader and their chief.
Although the Holy Quran contains repeated prophecies about the Promised Messiah, i.e., myself, people who lack spiritual insight still say that the Holy Book does not mention the Promised Messiah at all. Such people are much like the Christians who to this day insist that the Bible contains no prophecy about the Holy Prophet (s).
 
Lecture Lahore page 65-68

Opposition of the Messiah: why religious scholars opposed him?

If Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (a) was truly a prophet of God, then why people opposed him so much?

 

Many people ask this question that if the Promised Messiah (a) was indeed a true prophet, then why people opposed him so much? God says in the Holy Quran.

And We sent the Messenger before thee among parties of ancient peoples. And there never came to them any Messenger but they mocked at him. [15:11-12]

Then God says,

And thus have We made in every town the great ones from among its sinners such as are in utter darkness with the result that they plot therein; and they plot not except against their own souls; but they perceive not. [6:124]

Whenever any prophet or reformer comes to this world, he is strongly opposed. History of the prophets stands witness to this fact that it has never happened in the past that people welcomed any prophet or reformer. One may read the tale of the prophet Noah (a) that how leaders mocked at him. What did Pharaoh and his people reacted to the claim of Moses (a)? Jesus (a) was also strongly opposed and great scholars of his time called him blasphemous and attempted to kill him even.  And what happened to our dear prophet Muhammad (s)? The whole Arab gathered to strongly oppose him and his followers. Countless attempts were made to kill him. He and his followers were severely tortured by people. God rightly says in the Holy Quran.

Alas for My servants! there comes not a Messenger to them but they mock at him [36:31]

So, let it be clear to all that opposition is the sign of the truthfulness of the Promised Messiah (a). The greatest enemies of the reformers (Mujaddedin) of Islam were the religious scholars of their time. They were declared as blasphemous and non-believer, opposed in number of ways and even their death sentences were issued. It is due to the same reason that in hadiths and other books, neither it is mentioned that the religious scholars at the time of Imam Mahdi would help him or would be his companions nor it is mentioned that the spiritual and moral condition of the religious scholars would be very good. Rather one finds in hadiths that they (religious scholars in the later days) would be swine, monkeys, ignorant and even ‘worst creature on the face of the earth’. It is also said that religious scholars of the later days would be the worst and bloodthirsty enemies of Imam Mahdi. I present some examples here.

Hadhrat Ali (r) narrates that Hadhrat Muhammad (s) said:

A time will come when nothing would be left of Islam except its name, and nothing would be left of Quran except its script, their mosques would be full of worshippers but would be devoid of righteousness. Their ullemas (religious scholars) would be the worst creatures under the canopy of the heavens. Evil plots will hatch from them and to them will they return. [Mishkat-ul-Misabih vol 1 page 91]

It clearly means that the religious scholars would be the bone of contention amongst Ummah-te-Muslima.

The Holy Prophet (s) once said:

Among my follower there will be perplexity (confusion), and the people in their perplexity would approach their learned men, but at the time those learned men would be (like) monkeys and swine. [Kanz-ul-Umaal, vol 7, Page 190]

These are the words of the Holy Prophet (s) who spoke always under God’s guidance. Every Muslim has the right to ask Muslim Ullemas that why these hadiths are kept hidden and why they are not put in front of people?

Hadhrat Muhayyuddin Ibn-e-Arbi (r) says:

At the appearance of Imam Mahdi none would be his open enemy other than the divines (religious people) [Futuhatul Makkiya vol 3. page 336]

I feel amazed to see people who read these hadiths and yet raise this objection that why the religious scholars rejected the Promised Messiah (a)? Some people say that these hadiths are not talking about the religious scholars of today but they would appear afterwards (later). I just quote here few references (although there are numerous references to prove how wicked today’s religious scholars have become).

The newspaper Ahle-Hadith writes: In the Holy Quran, Jews have been criticized for accepting some parts of the Book and rejecting the rest. Sadly, we find the same act especially in Ahle-Hadith today also  [Ahle-Hadith 19th of April, 1907]

Then the newspaper Zamindar writes: I am also considered amongst the Jamaat of Ullemas that’s why I am fully aware of their reality. I, with full determination, inform Muslims today that they should never let these Ullemas take over for even a minute. Throw them away from your political and religious circles, as they neither know anything about politics nor about religion. They are only expert in deceitfulness and dishonesty and they are the people of their own desires. They are not the guide but robbers [Newspaper Zamindar 15th of April, 1929]

Let’s now see what the ‘founder of Taliban’, Mr. Zia-ul-Haq and star of Muslim Ullemas of Pakistan, says about Ullemas: There are almost 50 thousands Imam of the mosques in Pakistan. Amongst them around 36 thousand are half-learned and around 11 thousand are completely illiterate. [Newspaper Jang Lahore 31st of January, 1985]

If these sort of scholars opposed Imam Mahdi and declared him and his community as non-Muslim then who cares. But Ummah-te-Muslima must aware of these robbers or I can use the same title that the Prophet Muhammad (s) has used for them monkeys and swine.

7th September 1974: A simple decision or the fulfillment of a Prophecy

In 1974 the so-called majority of Pakistan National Assembly declared Ahmadiyya Muslim Community as Not Muslim. Some people use it as excuse that our Islamic Scholars declared Ahmadiyya community to be a not Muslim and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (a) was a false prophet unanimously so no need to study any more about this community. But they forget that it was not a simple decision but a fulfillment of one of the Great prophesy of Hadhrat Muhammad (s). Let’s see what the Holy Prophet (s) said about this ‘unanimous decision’.

Surely things will happen to my people as happened earlier to Israelites. They will each other like one shoe in a pair resembles the others to the extent that if anyone among the Israelites had openly committed adultery with his mother, there would be someone who would do this in my Ummah. Verily, the Israelites were divided into 72 sects, but my people will be divided into 73 sects. All of them will be in Fire except one. The companions asked ‘Who are they; O messenger of Allah?’ The Holy Prophet (s) said they are the people who adopt my practice and they of my companions. [Tirmizi, Kitabul Iman, Chapter 18 vol 5, page 26]

How clear and complete hadith it is; there would be a Jamaat (community) which would be in minority and 72 sects would be together and one sect would be left alone.

Hadhrat Imam Mulla Ali Qari (r), who died in 1014 A.H. and was a great research scholar and a master of Hanafi Jurisprudence and was great Imam and recognized authority in Hanafi sect. He has written a commentary on Mishkat (a book of hadith). He writes with reference to this hadith as the following:

These seventy-two sects, all of them will be in Fire. The righteous ones will be those who truly follow the Holy Prophet (s) and are firmly established on the pure Ahmadiyya doctrine. [Mirqatul-Mafatih-Sharah Mishkat vol 1 page 248]

Look at the understanding of this righteous Imam! How clearly he explained this hadith and emphasized that the sect of Muhammad (s) would be the Ahmadiyya sect and no other. He even told the name of that community. Secondly, he explained that they will be ‘firmly established’; which means that sect will be firmly established and organized. It also means that they will be organized as Jamaat under one leadership i.e. Khilafat. Without one Divine leadership no community is organized. Ahmadiyya community is the only community who has been blessed with Khilafat.

Now, to whom one should listen; the Holy Prophet (s) or these religious scholars of today? Now look how bravely Muslim of this age denies the saying of Holy Prophet (s) of Islam. It is sad to say that Muslims today are always bowing before religious scholars instead of listening to their Great Prophet (s). Maulvi Akhter Ali Khan, the son of Maulvi Zafar Ali Khan, openly writes against this hadith as the following: Our action has resulted in a consensus of opinion for the second time in the last thirteen hundred years. Today, the seventy-two sects are united against Mirza of Qadian. Hanafi, Wahhabi, Deobandi, Brailavi, Shi‘ah, Sunni, Ahl-e-Hadith and all their ulema and scholars have united in demanding that Mirzais (Ahmadis) are non-Muslim and should be called a non-Muslim minority. [Newspaper Zamindar nov 5, 1952 page 2 col 6]

Another newspaper states: One of the special importance of this decision has been that on it the consensus of Ummah has been in substantially correct manner. Throughout the history of Islam, such an overwhelming complete consensus has never been reached on any important topic. Other than the big religious scholars, holders of Shar’a, all the political leaders and political leaders of each group have agreed on this consensus. Other than these, all sufia karam, aarifeen Billah, the leaders of Tassawaf and practices had complete agreement. Excluding Qadianis all the rest of 72 sects which are considered to be of Muslims, agreed and are happy on the solution of this affair. Among the leaders of the nation and a’maideen, there does not appear to be any group, which does not have a joyous attitude towards this decision. Nation should take a notice of this. [Nawa-e-Waqt oct 1974, page 4]

How sad it is to see these scholars’s majority (Ullemas) openly and bravely giving decision against the decision of the Holy Prophet (s)? The Holy Prophet (s) declared one sect to be on the right path and 72 sects on the wrong path but these so-called scholars says the opposite. Now let’s analyze the ‘blessed character’ of those people who took part in this ‘historic decision’ of declaring Ahmadis non-Muslim. There was a white paper published later on describing the character of the members of 1974 National Assembly. I provide the following reference from it.

They are addicted to alcohol and adultery, and according to some source, are involved in the damming habits of (an obscene word omitted). On a return flight with the delegation he asked the airhostess for two bottles of whisky and when the airhostess provided him with the bottles he attempted to have his way with her. However, the airhostess rejected his advances. [White paper, Bhutto ka Daur-e-Hakumat vol 3 page 182]

Such are the moral characters of the prominent leaders of the National Assembly who declared Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat to be non-Muslim. Now, people would be thinking that it might be the case that opposition party would contain some pious people. Let’s see what was their moral and spiritual level.

Addicted to bragging and boasting. He considers himself to be the only equivalent in leadership to the Prime Minister. He is without any principles and conscience. Unfortunately, due to lace of educated people in our Nation he was attained a more important position at the national level then his real worth.  [Bhutto ka Daur-e-Hakumat vol 3 page 184]This was indeed a reference about an individual but one may refer to that White paper to see different references about the spiritual and moral level of those ‘blessed people’. I always feel sorry for those Muslims who criticize Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and raise fingers on this issue. After having clear prophesies about the scholars of this age, Muslims are still bowing before religious scholars instead of listening to their Great Prophet Hadhrat Muhammad (s).

God says in Holy Quran: And thus have We made in every town the great ones from among its sinners such as are in utter darkness with the result that they plot therein; and they plot not except against their own souls; but they perceive not. [6:124]

And Hadhrat Muhammad (s) said:
 
There will be nothing left of knowledge. People will make the ignorant their leaders and will seek guidance from them in matters of religion. These leaders will issue fatwas without any knowledge. They will themselves be misguided and will lead others astray. (Mishkat, Kitab ul-‘Ilm, page 33)

I have no word to comment on it but I would like to quote one reference about the level of knowledge of these scholars from the eyes of their own leaders. Mr. Zia-ul-Haq, the bright star of Muslim Ullemas (scholars) of Pakistan and whole Muslim world, says about Ullemas: There are almost 50 thousands Imam of the mosques in Pakistan. Amongst them around 36 thousand are half-learned and around 11 thousand are completely illiterate. [Newspaper Jang Lahore 31st of January, 1985]

Hadhrat Ali (r) narrates that Hadhrat Muhammad (s) said: A time will come when nothing would be left of Islam except its name, and nothing would be left of Quran except its script, their mosques would be full of worshippers but would be devoid of righteousness. Their ullemas (religious scholars) would be the worst creatures under the canopy of the heavens. Evil plots will hatch from them and to them will they return. [Mishkat-ul-Misabih vol 1 page 91]

If Muslims still eager to obey and listen these scholars (worse creatures) then what I can say more about them then what is written in Quran Alas for My servants! there comes not a Messenger to them but they mock at him [36:31]

Professor Wragge meets The Promised Messiah (alaihissalam), Question no: 3

Professor Wragge:

There are two things I wish to find out – one is, what is sin? A person in one country may consider some act to be a sin while the same act may not be considered sinful in another country. Man progressed from a small insect to a human being and then he learned to discern between truth and falsehood, he distinguishes truth from lies, good from bad, gained knowledge of sin and goodness and after all this there is the difference - what is sin for one person is not sin for another who indulges in it?

The other thing I wish to find out is about Satan. What is Satan? How is it that God being the master and having power over such knowledge, Satan got to have so much sway that God had to come to this world himself to reform the world. What is meant by this?

Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (a):

I usually speak having in mind people who believe in the existence of God. God’s being is a source of eternal happiness and pleasure for man’s life. Whoever separates from Him or leaves Him in one way or another, about such a state of a person it is said that he has sinned. Furthermore, keeping in view the nature of man, God has further defined as ‘sin’ those acts which through their finer implications, prove to be harmful for man himself, even though a person sometimes may not be able to appreciate such harmfulness. For example, theft and harming others by taking away their rights, harms the purity of one’s own life. An adulterer’s act of adultery and his taking what may belong to someone else, destroys his own piety and engulfs him in various physical and spiritual difficulties.
Similarly, those acts which are against the nature of man’s purity and piety are also referred to as ‘sin’, as are all the related acts –whether related closely or distantly – these are also considered as types of sin.

God Almighty is greater than all else, He has the most knowledge, He is the true creator of man and every particle which exists. It is He Who is also the creator of their nature and He is wise. If, with His complete wisdom and complete knowledge, He suggests that something is harmful for you, that indulging in it would not benefit you at all, rather it is totally harmful, then it is not the action of a wholesome person to go against this.

We see that when a doctor advises a patient to abstain from something, the patient acts on that advice without any argument. Why does he act in this way? He does this because he considers the doctor as being in possession of much greater knowledge than himself. Similarly, there are some things which are harmful for man’s body or spirit whether man himself understands that or not. There are some things which would be harmful even if God had not given a ruling about them. In medicine also there are some things which are considered ‘sins’ and lack of medical knowledge is no excuse for the person who goes against the medical principles. If someone does not believe this they can check with doctors and physicians.

The point to remember is simply this that the root of sin is those actions which lead man far away from purity and righteousness.
The true love of God and union with Him is the true pleasure and real comfort. Thus moving away from God and being distant from Him is also sin and is the source of pain, sorrow and difficulty. Those things which God dislikes due to His own sanctity, that is sin. There are some matters on which people may not agree but, on the other hand, the greater part of the world is jointly agreed that lying, stealing, adultery and cruelty are such acts that all nations and religions jointly consider them to be sins. But remember that the root of sin is precisely those acts which distance man from God, which are against His sanctity, against His wishes and against man’s nature –it is such acts which constitute sin.

Every person senses sin. If someone slaps an innocent person and knows that he had no right to do so, he will, at some later time, when he looks at his action with a cool head, himself feel ashamed and will sense that he has done a bad deed. Conversely, if someone feeds a hungry person, gives a drink of water to a thirsty person, and clothes someone lacking clothes, such a person will have an inner sense of having been good, and having done a blessed deed. A person’s heart and conscience and the light of belief remind him whether his various actions were a good act or a sinful act.

With regard to Satan, it should be remembered that in man’s nature and composition there have been included two forces and they are both opposed to each other and it is so in order for a person to be tried and tested and, with a successful outcome, to become deserving of God ‘s nearness. Of the two forces, one pulls man towards goodness and the other invites man towards evil. The force that pulls towards goodness is called ‘malak’ or ‘angel’ and the force which invites towards evil is called ‘Satan’. In other words, you can understand it like this that there are two forces which work on a person: one calls towards good (da’i ilal khair), and the other towards bad (da’i ilashsharr).
Someone may not like the use of the terms ‘angel ‘ and ‘Satan’, but he would not be able to deny the existence of these two types of forces within man. God never intended any evil. God only does what is good.

You see, if sin did not exist in the world there would be no goodness. Goodness develops from sin. The concept of goodness is formed by the concept of sin. If someone has the opportunity to commit adultery and he possesses the ability to do so but then he abstains from this sin, this action is called goodness. If someone has the opportunity to steal, or to be cruel, and he is capable of doing these acts, but he does not do so and positively abstains from them, then he is doing a good deed. To have the opportunity and capability of sinning and then not indulging in sin, that is a good and blessed deed.
 
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De onafhankelijke Nederlandse pers

PCM uitgevers -- Volkskrant, Parool, NRC, AD, Trouw

Nu weer eens iets voor de kritische Nederlandse intellectuelen die Spiritual Change lezen. Het PCM gebouw aan de A10 (Ring) Zuid te Amsterdam. Nergens op internet een foto van te vinden, terwijl het gebouw zo symbolisch is voor de toestand van onze Nederlandse media. Hierbij dan de internet primeur. Ik ben speciaal uit de auto gestapt om de foto te nemen.

Hoezo onafhankelijke pers? Vrijwel alle Nederlandse kranten die door de massa enige geloofwaardigheid wordt toegedicht, zijn eigendom van hetzelfde concern, PCM. Hieronder vallen De Volkskrant, NRC Handelsblad, Trouw, Het Parool en het Algemeen Dagblad. Het concern is enige jaren geleden opgekocht geweest door het Brits-Israelische concern APAX. Toen APAX ermee klaar was, is het eigendom geworden van de vage stichting met de Orwelliaanse naam Democratie en Media.

Sindsdien komt er weinig relevants meer uit deze kranten. 9-11 is het sprookje gebleven over Ali Baba en de 19 rovers. De schandelijke invallen in Afghanistan en Irak met miljoenen doden lijken geen verontwaardiging te behoeven. De farmaceutische industrie en de bankiers zijn ons behoudens enige foutjes goed gezind. De politiek wordt niet kritisch geanalyseerd op ernstig onvermogen de situatie te bevatten. Parallellen met de financiele crisis, het racisme en de conflicten van het interbellum zijn not done. De media als het kamerscherm van de macht.

Het Parool, Trouw en De Volkskrant werden opgericht in de Tweede Wereldoorlog als ‘verzetskranten’. De na-oorlogse generatie maakt nog goede sier met dit imago en laat zich graag zien met een ‘kwaliteitskrant’ onder de arm. Men beseft niet dat zowel de kranten als zijzelf zich gedragen zoals de ‘foute’ kranten destijds: onverschillig voor onrecht, niet kritisch op processen van uitsluiting en valse ideeen van superioriteit, niet afwijzend jegens culturele doodzondes zoals het meedoen aan de invasie van een ander land, stilzwijgen over de relatie tussen oorlog en kapitaal.

Lees voor gedetailleerde analyses van de berichtgeving door de kranten van PCM het weblog van Stan van Houcke.

Professor Wragge meets The Promised Messiah (alaihissalam), Question no: 2

Professor Wragge:

It is written that there was one Adam and one Eve. Eve was a weak woman. She ate one apple. Now, the punishment of her having eaten an apple will continue forever. This I do not understand. Also, that this earth with which we are related, is but one among many thousands and millions of other systems which God has created then why would God’s (qudrat) and blessings be limited to this earth? 

Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (a): 

This is not our belief. We don’t propose that there is no system other than our earth and the sky. Rather, our God says that He is ‘Rabbil Alameen’ , that is, He is the Sustainer of all the universes and that wherever there has been an inhabitation there He has sent His messengers. Lack of knowledge does not make something non-existent. God created such a vast system of provision for this small earth, why would He not have created provision for all other habitations? As for saying that all human sorrow and hardship were caused by Eve’s having eaten an apple, this is not a belief held by Islam. We are taught that:And no burdened soul can bear the burden of another; and if a heavily laden soul call another to bear its load, naught of it shall be carried by the other, even though he be a kinsman…..(Surah Fatir Verse 19) 

One person’s punishment cannot be meted out to another, nor can there be imagined any benefit in this. Eve’s having eaten of an apple is not the cause of anysorrow, difficulty or punishment, the reasons for these things are given in the Qu’ran but are totally different.  

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Professor Wragge meets The Promised Messiah (alaihissalam), Question no: 1

Professor Wragge:

I am a man of science and I see that the earth on which we live is very small. In comparison to thousands and millions of other kinds of God’s creation, the earth melts into insignificance. Why then has God’s blessing been limited to this earth or to any one religion or nation?

 

Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (a):

Actually this is not correct, neither is it our belief that God reveals himself through a particular nation or sect. God does not have a special relationship or love for any one particular nation. What is correct is that God is the God of the entire universe and he has created the means of physical nourishment and development for all creation without any distinction. According to our principle he is ‘Rabbil Alameen’ i.e. the Nourisher and Sustainer of all the worlds. He has created grains, air, water, light, etc. for all creation. Likewise, in every age and in every nation He has, from time to time, sent reformers for the reformation of people in those nations. As it is stated in the Holy Qu’ran (Surah Fatir, verse 25) Allah the Almighty is God of all the worlds. He has no special relationship with any nation. In fact the different heavenly books which have come from time to time do not contradict each other.

This is because a reformer is needed when the world inclines more towards evil deeds and bad practices, such as lies, theft, quarrels and general immorality, so that people become distanced from purity and virtue, and are overwhelmed by selfish desires and emotions. So much so that they, in their belief, also abandon the worship of one God and incline towards idol worship. God is the nourisher of man’s physical as well as spiritual being. His pride demands that at such times of spiritual darkness he should appoint a person for reform, and the concept of such a reformer does not fall outside the bounds of laws of nature. Just as the actual wheat that grew in the times of Adam and other prophets cannot be a source of nourishment for us, and just as the water which existed in previous times cannot quench our thirst, so we need fresh spiritual food as well as water.

It is the tradition of Allah that just as He nourishes and provides for the development of the physical process, where previous nourishment is not sufficient for the present, so is the case with the system of spiritual development, and the two systems, the physical and the spiritual, go side by side.

For the person who denies the existence of God, this discussion would take a different line. But a person who believes in the existence of God should keep the two systems in mind and benefit from their comparison. He who has created the physical system has also created the spiritual system. Just as He nourishes the physical system with fresh sustenance, so He nourishes the spiritual system with fresh sustenance. Just as the physical state is dependent upon fresh water, so the spiritual state is also dependent upon fresh, heavenly revelation. Just as the physical body dies if it does not receive nourishment, so the soul too dies without spiritual nourishment. If in spiritual matters only past and ancient references are available, then what would be the conclusion other than that the spiritual system is in a state of death. What else could it be?

God Almighty, as is His nature, always wishes to be recognised. For proof of his existence and identification He always provides true, clear and fresh signs and these are not too difficult to understand. It is this system which has always been in existence and which continues. Thousands upon thousands of prophets came and provided such proofs through their own actions and deeds, thus completing the argument in favour of the existence of God.

Now, how can a person stating that he is a scientist or a philosopher break this proven continuum of witnessed signs?

What is needed in such a case is that, just as the holy people provided a practical example with their lives and validated their claims, so should the negation of it be offered in the same way. Such people, however, would be justified in asking, why they are presented with old stories and fables, why not give a living proof or a living example, and for this I am available.

An astronomer cannot provide a definite proof of the existence of God merely by observing the solar system which may, at the very most, lead to a view that there should be a God. The fact that there is a God and that He most certainly exists has always been proven with the principles put forward by the prophets. If people like myself did not appear in this world there could never be in the world any real and complete proof of God. At the very most, if someone was of a just disposition and also possessed a virtuous character, then from the well ordered heavenly bodies and from the solar system, etc. he could conclude that there ought to be a God. Other than that, the fact that God exists and He is the Master, the Ruler and the moving force behind all creation, all this is not possible for people to know without the guidance of those who are from God. It is such people who enable others to witness the existence of God and, by providing fresh evidence and signs, it is as if they are able to ‘show’ God to others.

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Jalsa (Convention) Germany: emotions

This time I got the chance to attend the annual convention of Jamat-a-Ahmadiyya Germany. More then 32 thousand people attended the convention this year. I could really feel the ever-increasing growth and strength of our community there.

One thing that made me bit a sad, but at the same time much happier too, was when the Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (a) used to enter in the main hall. I thought of the time when prophets unfold their claim for prophethood. Once, a prophet is completely alone and weak and due to his weakness all of his enemies try their best to hurt him and later his followers also. These enemies try all possible ways to torture that humble, innocent and noble servant of God. But when people accepted the same prophet then big emperors bowed before his name only. His message seized the power of big empires, and many emperors put shackles of obedience of that prophet in their necks. Many throne belonged to him and his followers but mostly at that moment prophet or his successor was not alive. But his followers enjoyed that moment and saw the fulfillments of those prophecies, which were told by him earlier. Just look at the Hadhrat Isa (a) who is now known as the King of Kings. How mercilessly people persecuted him. People spit on him in the streets of Jerusalem. But now look that he is worshiped as a god. Then look at my dear and King of Prophets Hadhrat Muhammad (s); how much he was persecuted in the streets of Mecca. Everyday his enemies tried to hurt him and his followers in different ways. But when he was accepted then his belonging ones founded many big empires. His flag flew more then half of the world. And now in this age, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (a) claimed to be the prophet (Imam Mahdi). He also went through the same process of torture and opposition. And now his enemy is trying hard to bring hard time to his community by martyring them and other possible ways of persecution.
 
But I can see the signs of big victory on the horizon. Every day brings new rays and signs, which is making our hearts more steadfast and filled with belief. We will win and no one will be able to stop us. Every year big amount of people are joining our community and now Presidents and Prime Ministers have started attending our conventions. Now the land of Arabs is also shaking with the thrust of MTA Al-Arabia and our Arab brothers and sisters are coming in the fold of Ahmadiyya in large numbers. The message of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (a) is reaching the corners of the earth and conquering the hearts of people with love and knowledge. In this convention I also noted the love of Ahmadiyya community with his spiritual leader (Khalifa) Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba) the Successor of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (a). Almost 32 thousand people gathered in Germany even to have a glimpse of his face. Whenever he used to enter in the big hall, all people used to stand to show their love and respect for him. I felt like that he is one and we were all his lovers. Whenever he used to go outside anywhere from his residence, people used to gather to see his blessed face. I saw people saying, Assalamoalikum (Islamic way of greeting) loudly as they were conveying the message of greeting of Hadhrat Muhammad (s) to the Successor of Imam Mahdi (a). Children while sitting on the shoulders of their fathers were passionately waving their hands with love and saying greetings; looks like he was the only fountain of love for them. Every face showed different sort of emotions but all of them had one thing common i.e. love for Khalifa. When he used to entered into the hall the environment used to change completely. It felt like people were watching a beautiful dream. When he orders to stay quite then people shut their voices like they are completely switched off.
 
The speeches of his Holiness (a) were so wonderful that I cannot express my feelings. Every word was full of wisdom and it strengthened the hearts of weak and brought peace inside and healed us. In end of speech all people did silent prayers, the tears running from their years could be seen and yelling and crying of people could be heard. In the end some young community members (Khuddam) sang poems so beautifully that I saw tears running from many eyes. Especially when Arab Ahmadis sang a poem, “Ini-Ma’qa-Ya-Masroor” (O Masroor! I am with you) shook the whole atmosphere and that echo shattered the walls of main marquee. It certainly showed the love of those Arabs for Khalifatul Masih. 
 
These emotions were not one sided but the people who have seen the face of his Holiness (aba) on MTA could see and witness the Waterfall of love from his face.
 
I bear witness that I have never ever experienced this sort of relationship between leaders and his followers. I have only read it in books of history about the prophets and their followers. I think this two-way strong relationship is the reason of the stability of Khilafat (Successor) in Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.