Source: mena-post.com

On a day when we are celebrating Martin Luther King day, I would like to ask the same question he once did « what are we doing for others ? ». A simple question yet so deep and powerful.

Today, I chose to do something for someone. Someone who has been in jail from the past 57 days for having recited the Quran. Doctor Masood, a British ahmadi muslim who returned to Pakistan as he wished to help people through his medicine. BBC relate the facts « Mr Ahmad, 72, was arrested at his homeopathic clinic in Lahore on blasphemy charges. Two people posing as patients came to him for treatment and had a conversation about religion instead. They used mobile phones to secretly film him reciting a verse from the Koran, and then called the police to have him arrested. »

Ahmadis are muslims who believe in Mirza Ghulam Ahmad to be the promised Messiah of the latter days as propheticed by all the religions. They also believe that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was a prophet and provide a different interpretation of the word « Khatamun Nabiyyin » mentionned in the Quran for the prophet Muhammad. It is on the basis of this mere dogmatic difference that they are considered to be « non muslims » by mainstream Islam.

Confident of state support, the Jamat-e-Islami contested the 1970 elections in Pakistan, only to suffer big reversals. Thereafter, Jamaat started a widespread anti-Ahmadiyya movement in Pakistan. In 1973, Maududi condemned them as heretics in his book, Qadiani Problem (The word “Qadian” is a derogatory term for Ahmadis used by opponents of the Ahmadiyya Community.) Their agitation …continue reading at mena-post.com

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