Creed of Islam should define and unite all Muslims
Source: Independent
As a young boy, I attended the mosque – and now I take my children. My wife proudly wears the hijab. I pray and eat halal meat. What is my crime?
Have you ever identified yourself as something, lived and breathed it all your life, and then told you’re not really what you believe yourself to be?
I’ve always called myself a Muslim, but recently the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) made a statement about me, saying the beliefs I follow mean I “cannot be eligible for affiliation with the Muslim Council”.
What’s my offence – am I neglecting my prayers, or not eating halal meat? No: I’m a member of the Ahmadiyya community.
Ahmadiyya Muslims believe their founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was Islam’s Messiah and Mahdi, who came to revive Islam, reform Muslims and bring humanity back to God. But because other Muslims will not accept any more messengers, the MCB have declared me and fellow Ahmadiyya Muslims as non-believers.
I know what I am. As a young boy, I regularly went to the mosque, and often made the call to prayer. I loved attending religious classes and was addicted to reading about Islam, especially the life of the Prophet Muhammad. I was in secondary school when my father wrote a response to Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and other books that vilified the Prophet. This inspired me to write about my faith too, and defend the Prophet’s honour whenever and wherever he was insulted.
Soon after graduating, I got married to my wife, who has always proudly worn the hijab. We have three beautiful children and continued the same tradition as our parents in raising them – teaching them the Qur’an and Islamic etiquettes, and going to the mosque. My eldest son has already decided that he wants to become an imam!
All my life, I have believed in the five pillars and six articles of faith. Furthermore, my community requires me to make the Qur’an and hadith my guiding principles, to invoke blessings on the Prophet, and to put Islam above everyone and everything. Whenever I leave the house, I wear a ring with the inscription ‘Is Allah not sufficient for His servant?’
However, while I fulfil all the descriptions of a Muslim given by Allah and the Prophet, the MCB says that “Muslims should not be forced to class Ahmadis as Muslims if they do not wish to do so”. But their own criterion for who is and isn’t a Muslim has no basis in the primary Islamic sources. It’s also inconsistent with the belief of the majority of Muslims, including their own affiliates that Jesus – a Prophet – will come again in future.
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MOVE TO CANADA!!!! Be all you can be!
Suggest what is feasible.
Unless you are in a prison in the UK – moving is a possibility. With lots of fellow Ahmadiyya muslims in Canada – moving is feasible. To my knowledge here mosques don’t have metal detectors – and there are no pamphlets suggesting to kill Ahmadiyya muslims. I’d say that’s a win/win. Continue writing or teaching here. Just a suggestion.
Ahmadiyya message of reformation is for whole world. If all start concentrating in Canada who will take care of the rest of the world. See I am lonely only Ahmadiyya voice factually in wrestling ground with thousands non Ahmadi Muslims united behind Mufti of Zagreb. And still bouts are on. Suggest how to reform the world and not to form Ahmadiyya Gatos in Canada.
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