Tribune.pk: Religious clerics in Pakistan celebrate September 7th as a day of victory for Islam and Pakistan. Officially dubbed the “Khatme Nubuwwat Day” or “Finality of Prophethood Day,” many mosques come alive with celebrations this day, sweets are distributed and intense speeches are made in large religious gatherings.
Forty years ago this day, Pakistan passed the second amendment to its Constitution, forcibly declaring the Ahmadis non-Muslim. With the stroke of a pen, the Ahmadis had been snatched of their basic right to self-identity at the insistence of the very clerics who had opposed Jinnah in his rightful struggle. It was this day that Pakistan started drifting away from the vision of its valiant founder.
Future generations will remember September 7 as a black day in the history of our nation – the day when Jinnah’s Pakistan died and control was handed over to the mullahs. PHOTO: FILE
What had Ahmadis done to deserve this State-sanctioned discrimination?
It is no secret that Ahmadis played a very prominent role in the creation of Pakistan and its subsequent growth. The community supported Jinnah in his fight for the rights of the minority Muslims in United India. It was an Ahmadi Imam who convinced Jinnah to return to India, after Jinnah bid farewell to Indian politics and moved to London. It was an Ahmadi, Sir Zafarullah Khan, who drafted the famous Pakistan Resolution that became the documentary basis for the demand for Pakistan. Jinnah appointed him the country’s first foreign minister. Sir Zafarullah Khan fought the Kashmir issue at the United Nations and pioneered the legal battle for a free Palestine. His efforts directly led to the independence of many Arab and North African States.
However, his career was cut short when he was forced to resign by the anti-Ahmadi Movement spearheaded by Abul Ala Maududi. The country’s only Nobel Laureate, Dr Abdus Salam, also belonged to the Ahmadiyya Community. When he planned to give a lecture on his Nobel-prize winning theory at the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad, Islami Jamiat Talaba activists threatened to break his legs. His trip had to be cancelled.
Another prominent Ahmadi, Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad, who was the Federal Finance Minister under Ayub Khan and Yahya Khan, played key role in the economic development of Pakistan in the 1960s and 70s. His efforts led directly to the success of the Mangla and Tarbela dam projects. He, too, had to leave Pakistan after a near-fatal attempt at his life by his peon. Jamaat-e-Islami and other anti-Ahmadis later honoured the peon with the title of ‘Hadhrat Maulana’.
Ahmadi Muslims were also at the forefront in defending Pakistan in times of war; General Akhtar Malik, General Abdul Ali Malik are a few names that come to mind. In fact, the only Pakistani general to have ever laid his life during combat was an Ahmadi, General Iftikhar Janjua.
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All the above is true, so it means that Jama’at Islami is playing in the hands of anti-Pakistan elements. The Jama’at has done much damage to the cause of Pakistan. First it did not support the creation of Pakistan. Then it played havoc in keeping Hazrat Isa a.s. alive for many years. Even now the Jama’at men do not believe that isa a.s. has passed away peacefully at a good age of 120 years.( according to hadith).
Maudoodi sahib who is considered a scholar of Islam made many other mistakes. He believed in the Mujaddideen (reformers) but said that Imam Mahdi when he will come, he will not know that he is the Imam Mahdi (The guided one.) If the guided one will not know what he is, then what he will do?
Besides Maudoodi sahib believed that there never will be any revelation of any kind. He believed that Allah has stopped speaking. But an important Hadith reported the words of the prophet s.a.w.s. as follows:
“Nothing is left of the prophet hood except Mubashshiraat i.e. good news.” It means even if the prophet hood had finished even then the system of news was still remaining. News from Allah will be coming. But Maudoodi sahib denied that.
These are not simple mistakes. These are major blunders, keeping Jesus alive against the clear teachings of the Quran, Denying the continuation of news from Allah, and opposing the creation of a free country for the Muslims, and writing that the prophet Muhammad s.a.w.s. met with failure but when he took sword in his hand, all the rust and dust of doubt was removed and he became successful in spreading Islam by sword..
Maudoodi sahib was trying and working for a government of Allah “hakoomat e Ilahiyah”. But he did not realize that he needed some place on earth for that government.
Then Jama’at Islami tried to propagate “Pakistan kaa matlab Kiya, Laa Ilaha Illa Allah.” Ahamdis were also proclaiming the Kalimah. But maudoodi sahib did not give them any relief or benefit of the Kalimah.
Then Maudoodi sahib gave another slogan to the poor Muslims. He said, Pakistan has been created. Now it is necessary to make it Muslim. So Maudoodi sahib told his followers “Khuda ki zameen par khuda kaa qanoon nafiz kar do.” i.e. enforce the law of Allah on the land of Allah.
How come? The prophet Muhammad s.a.w.s. went to Madinah. He did not say that. He did not do that. The people of Madinah requested the prophet s.a.w.s. to please take charge of their affairs and then he guided them. He did not force anything upon the residents of Madinah.
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