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Qudrat Ullah Ayaz, Secretary Tatelum Ul Quran leads prayer at the Baitul Qadir Mosque.
Inside the Bait-ul Qadir mosque on Fond du Lac Ave., a small group of men gather before the midday prayer. They speak of the weather and their families, the inanities of daily affairs but also the great mysteries of life and the path to salvation.
“We are what we do. And in the next life, we will be judged by our actions,” said Rashid Ahmad, an imam, who at 90 commands the quiet respect of his fellow worshippers.
“You cannot judge a body that has been in the ground; it is dust. But your actions…,” said Ahmad, waving his hand as if to cast a fine powder into the ether. “Your actions are still here.”
Assembled in this way during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, discussing the teachings of the Prophet Mohammad and their founder Hadhrat Mirza Gulam Ahmad, could amount to a death sentence in some parts of the world. But the Masjid Bait-ul Qadir is on Milwaukee’s north side where members of the local Ahmadiyya Muslim community — one of the oldest in the country — are free to worship as they please.
“We are just like other Muslims in that we follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammad, the way we worship and the five basic pilars of the faith… continue reading at jsonline.com
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Anyone who reads the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Quran without bias, will find that there are more commonalities between the Jews and Muslims on one hand and then between Christians and Muslims on the other hand than between Christians and Jews. The word Judeo-Christianity, according to a Jewish friend of mine, is a hoax manufactured by the Christian evangalists to encourage conversion of Jews to Christianity. Truly these three religions are Abrahamic faiths. Better try to find similarities than differences.