The peak of the entire series of tasyakur programs for the 100th anniversary of the Indonesian Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will be held in December 2025.
Updated Mar 24, 2025
Liputan6.com, Jakarta – The existence of Ahmadiyah Muslims in Indonesia in 2025 will be exactly 100 years old. This historic momentum is the right time to reaffirm the commitment of the Indonesian Ahmadiyah Congregation (JAI) in its role and contribution inclusively to the journey of the Indonesian nation.
Since the beginning, Ahmadiyah has been present in Indonesia, starting with three Indonesian students who were graduates of the Sumatera Thawalib Islamic boarding school in West Sumatra, namely Abubakar Ayyub, Ahmad Nuruddin, and Zaini Dahlan, who studied Islam in India in December 1922 and were then interested in accepting Ahmadiyah Islam in 1923.
“After that, dozens of other young people from the archipelago followed suit and became interested in studying Ahmadiyah Islam in India,” said JAI Press Secretary , Yendra Budiana, in a press release, quoted Sunday (23/3/2025).
In 1924, dozens of young people from the archipelago who had accepted Ahmadiyah Islam and were still in India, invited the Caliph of Ahmadiyah Islam, Hazrat Mirza Bashirudin Mahmud Ahmad ra, who was actively preaching Islam to Europe, to also come to the archipelago. Then, Hz Mirza Bashirudin Mahmud Ahmad ra sent the preacher Maulana Rahmat Ali HAOT as a representative of the Caliph of Ahmadiyah to introduce Ahmadiyah Islam in the archipelago.
“Maulana Rahmat Ali HAOT first landed in Tapak Tuan, Aceh in 1925 and accepted the oath of allegiance of several Indonesian people to join the Ahmadiyah Muslim group. Since 1925, it was marked as the beginning of the spread of the understanding of Ahmadiyah Islam throughout the archipelago which would later be called Indonesia,” he explained.
Since then, the understanding of Ahmadiyah through the translation & interpretation of the Ahmadiyah Qur’an has colored Indonesian national figures such as Cokroaminoto, KH Agus Salim, Ruslan Abdul Gani, Soekarno, as conveyed by the Director General of the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Science and Technology, Professor Najib Ajmad Burhani at the launch of the Tasyakur program for the Indonesian Ahmadiyah Muslim Congregation, Friday, March 21, 2025 in Jakarta.
So Reference
Professor Najib said that the founding fathers of the Indonesian nation were interested in the Ahmadiyah interpretation of the Qur’an because it was considered more rational and modern. So it is not surprising that the first edition of the Tafsir Al-Quran of the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia from 1965 to 1974 used references to the Ahmadiyah interpretation of the Qur’an by Maulana Muhammad Ali, Maulvi Sher and the second Ahmadiyah Caliph of Islam Hazrat Mirza Bashirudin Mahmud Ahmad ra.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS) in his book Noah’s Ark states that all goodness is contained in the Qur’an (al-khayru kulluhu fiy al-qur’an). The Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community emphasized that every Ahmadi Muslim must make the Qur’an a guide to life by practicing it, not just reading it (Qs. Al-Furqan: 30). Therefore, according to the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Community, the greatest jihad is to spread the teachings of the Qur’an (Qs. Al-Furqan: 52).
Given that humanity comes from various tribes and languages, the Qur’an needs to be translated so that it can be understood more widely. Ahmadiyah realizes this effort in various ways. First, translating the Qur’an into various major languages of the world.
To date, Ahmadiyah has completed translations into 80 of the target 100 languages. Some of them are Dutch (1953), Kiswahili (1953), German (1954), Esperanto (1970), Indonesian (1970), French (1985), Italian (1986), Russian (1987), Japanese (1988), Spanish (1988), Swedish (1988), Greek (1989). Recently, Ahmadiyah also published a complete translation of 30 juz in Hebrew (2025)
Second, the Ahmadiyya Jamaat held the International Ta’leemul Qur’an Academy (ITQA), which was attended by Ahmadis from various countries. This program includes Nazhirah, Tazyin, and Tahsin Al-Qur’an, with the aim that every Ahmadi understands and is able to teach the Qur’an to others (khayrukum man ta’allam al-Qur’an wa ‘allamahu).
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