How an Anti-Ahmadi site made me a better Ahmadi Muslim?

Posted on August 31, 2011 by theartofmisinformation By Luqman Ahmad:

I accidentally stumbled upon an anti-Ahmadi site a few months ago. At first it seemed like just another regular anti-Ahmadi website with hate-filled material, but then I read a few articles and it was clear that someone had done some research using historical articles. Well, to cut a long story short, I was still not convinced by the content. I decided to read some of the comments posted by visitors to the site and it was at this point that my journey to becoming a better Ahmadi Muslim began. The comments were full of hurtful and disparaging remarks about the Promised Messiah (as), my beloved Khalifa (atba) and his predecessors (May Allah be Pleased with them), all people dear to my heart. The comments also claimed that I, as an Ahmadi, was ”brainwashed” and should ”come back to Islam.”

Ultimately, by saying something so negative and rude against the person who I believe to be the Promised Messiah (as), they had already lost my attention. That alone was enough for me to not continue. But hey, I am a curioius person, and so dug a bit deeper. I was led to a video of some Maulvi and on the recommended videos section noticed other less than pleasing and disparaging clips from the same maulvi. Put bluntly, their strategy to convince me I was on the wrong path failed. They can call me ”brainwashed”, but they simply aren’t attracting me to come to their ”version” of Islam. Perhaps those kinds of phrases give the people on those sites some sort of a kick, but to me, it clearly tells me not to join their ”version of Islam” because that would mean that I am required to also hate others and call them and their Holy Personalities disgusting names. As an apparently ”brainwashed” Ahmadi, I simply do not have the capacity for this kind of hatred and bitterness. The reality is, however, that anybody can call me ”brainwashed”, but this doesn’t make it so – in fact, the ancestors of these people have been calling Ahmadis far worse for years.

Another question on my mind was: why are these people stressing so much over the Jamaat? Why not let Allah take care of it, if there is really something to be taken care of? Or better yet, instead of adopting hate and bitterness, why not try praying to Allah (the Almighty God believed in by the Muslims)? Was this their only way of demonstrating how Islam should be spread – I asked myself? As an Ahmadi, I look towards the Khalifatul Masih (atba) for guidance, and he keeps telling us to pray to Almighty Allah and that all our tears should be presented before the Lord of all the Worlds. Our Khalifa (atba) has never asked me to use the internet to write rude and disparaging remarks about non-Ahmadi Islamic societies or scholars. And let’s be honest about this – the amount of negative information that could draw upon in this regard is so much that it would make what they write about Ahmadis seem like nothing at all. Clearly, after being given the choice by Almighty Allah, I chose to stay right where I am in a Jamaat whose Khalifa (atba) guides me properly – in a wholly spiritually manner.