Ahmadiyya
The White Minaret with the Ahmadiyya Flag in Qadian, India. For Ahmadi Muslims, the two symbolise the advent of the Promised Messiah
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Ahmadiyya (/ɑːməˈdiʲə/;[1] officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community or the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at; Arabic: الجماعة الإسلامية الأحمدية, transliterated: al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmiyyah al-Aḥmadiyyah) is an Islamic religious movement founded in British Indianear the end of the 19th century.[2][3] It originated with the life and teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who claimed to have fulfilled the prophecies of the world’s reformer during the end times, who was to herald the eschaton as predicted in the traditions of various world religions and bring about the final triumph of Islam as per Islamic prophecy. He claimed that he was the Mujaddid (divine reformer) of the 14th Islamic century, the promised Messiah and Mahdi awaited byMuslims.[4][5][6][7] The adherents of the Ahmadiyya movement are referred to as Ahmadi Muslims or simply Ahmadis.
Ahmadi thought emphasizes the belief that Islam is the final dispensation for humanity as revealed to Muhammad and the necessity of restoring to it its true essence and pristine form, which had been lost through the centuries.[8] Ahmadiyya adherents believe that Ahmad appeared in the likeness of Jesus, to end religious wars, condemn bloodshed and reinstitute morality, justice, and peace. They believe that upon divine guidance he divested Islam of fanatical and innovative beliefs and practices by championing what is, in their view, Islam’s true and essential teachings as practised by Muhammad and the early Islamic community.[9] Thus, Ahmadis view themselves as leading the revival and peaceful propagation of Islam.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the movement on 23 March 1889 and termed it the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, sometimes translated as Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Since his death, the community has been led by a number of Caliphs and has expanded to over 200 countries and territories of the world. The Ahmadis were among the earliest Muslim communities to arrive in Britain and other Western countries.[8] Currently, the community is led by its Caliph, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, and is officially estimated to number between 10 and 20 million worldwide.[10][11][12]
The population is almost entirely contained in the single, highly organized and united movement. In this sense there is only one majorbranch. However, in the early history of the community, a number of Ahmadis broke away over the nature of Ahmad’s prophethood and succession and formed the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement which today represents a small fraction of all Ahmadis. Some Ahmadiyya-specific beliefs have been thought of as opposed to contemporary mainstream Islamic thought since the movement’s birth, and some Ahmadis have subsequently faced persecution.[7][12][13][14] Most orthodox Muslims have denounced Ahmadis as kafirsor heretics, and mainstream Islam generally considers them to be non-Muslims.[15][16][17][18][19]
Categories: Ahmadiyyat: True Islam, Europe, Islam, UK
Mirza Masroor Ahmad (Urdu: مرزا مسرور احمد) (born 15 September 1950) is Khalifatul Masih V, the Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. He was elected as the fifth successor of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad on 22 April 2003, 3 days after the death of his predecessor Mirza Tahir Ahmad, the fourth Caliph for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirza_Masroor_Ahmad
Khalifatul Masih V
Leader of the Faithful
(Amir al-Mu’minin)
Khalifatul Masih V
Reign 22 April 2003–present
Predecessor Mirza Tahir Ahmad
Spouse Sahibzadi Amatul Sabooh Begum
(m. 1977)
Issue 2 children
Full name
Mirza Masroor Ahmad
Father Mirza Mansoor Ahmad
Mother Sahibzadi Nasira Begum
Born 15 September 1950 (age 64)
Rabwah, Pakistan
mprisonment[edit]
In 1999, a resolution was presented in the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab which demanded that the name of Rabwah be changed because that name appeared in the Qur’an. The resolution passed without much debate and the name of Rabwah was officially changed to Chenab Nagar. Signage was placed in prominent parts of Rabwah which bore the new name. A few days later, a First Information Report (criminal complaint) was filed accusing certain members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community for erasing a sign which bore the new name as well a passage from the Qur’an. Though the complaint didn’t mention any names, a case was registered, resulting in the arrest of Masroor Ahmad and a few other senior members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. They were imprisoned for 11 days with their bails being rejected but were eventually released on 10 May 1999.[1]
Key speeches[edit]
Reception at House of Commons, Westminster, London
German military headquarters, Koblenz
European Parliament, Brussels
Letters to world leaders[edit]
Discussion about a possible third world war is a repeated subject in his Friday Sermons of late 2011 and 2012.[17]In order to whip up a world coalition of global and religious leaders to discuss and combat this ever present threat, Ahmad wrote letters to many political and religious leaders and exhorted them to do their utmost to save humanity from destruction.
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad taking the international Bay’ah (oath), 2008
Israel and Iran[edit]
On 5 March 2012, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad wrote letters to Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to avoid war between their countries and warning both the leaders that if this tension escalates it may turn toward World War III and involve nuclear weapons.[18]
Grand Ayatollah of Iran[edit]
On 14 May 2012, he sent a similar letter to the Grand Ayatollah of Iran, Sayyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, urging him to avoid World War III in his capacity as clerical leader of Iran as well.[19]
Pope Benedict XVI[edit]
He said in his epistle to Pope Benedict XVI on 6 December 2011