August 19th, 2018
New area: Miracles, Myths, Mistakes and Matters — See Title Page and List of Contents
— latest, 9th July 2018: Can Muslims (-women) marry Non-Believers
See: Project Rebuttal: What the West needs to know about Islam
Refuting the gross distortion and misrepresentation of the Quran, the Prophet Muhammad and Islam, made by the critics of Islam
Read: Background to the Project
List of all Issues | Summary 1 | Summary 2 | Summary 3 — completed, 28th June 2013
Abdul Bashir has submitted the following for this blog:
Lahore Ahmadiyya Community Admits a Mujaddid for the 15th Century will not come
https://youtu.be/4BJDTJK7m_k?t=13m35s
Transcription:
And I would say that for as long that as our Jamaat continues to look at its self, and others and carries on, this, system of reform that Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad the Promised Messiah has setup. Perhaps that there is maybe no need for a Mujaddid to come, because reform is being done
Today, 6th July 2018, Qadianis are claiming that a court in Malaysia has declared them as Muslim. See, for example, the facebook page Faizan e Ahmadiyyat.
Yet if you look at the link to a Malaysian newspaper given on the above facebook page, the news report says:
Thirty-nine members of the sect had challenged JAIS [Selangor Islamic Religious Department] for trying to charge them with shariah offences, on the basis that Islamic authorities in Selangor do not recognise Ahmadiah Muslims as Muslims.
The court ruled that the Selangor Islamic religious authorities have no jurisdiction over Ahmadi Muslims in the state.
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In his submission previously, Paiva [lawyer for the Qadianis] said the community should be allowed to practise their faith since they were not considered Muslims by Selangor.
He said Jais could not attempt to charge the community with shariah offences when they had refused to recognise the Muslim sect as adherents.
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“On the one hand, you say they are not Muslims; on the other hand, you are arresting them and taking them to the Shariah Court to face charges,” Paiva said.
So what happened was that the Qadianis went to court against the Selangor Islamic authorities saying: You can't charge us with committing offences against Islamic Shariah because you consider us as non-Muslims.
In another Malaysian newspaper the report begins:
KUALA LUMPUR, July 6 ― The Shah Alam High Court decided today that the Shariah Court has no jurisdiction over members of the Ahmadiyya community, as the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) has refused to recognise the Muslim sect as adherents.
What it means is that if a Qadiani commits an act which is an offence in Islamic Shariah (though not against the secular law of the land), he cannot be charged by the Islamic authorities because the jurisdiction of these authorities is limited only to Muslims!
— Zahid Aziz
In the year 1900, when the Urdu book Sīrat Masīḥ Mau‛ūd (Character and example of the Promised Messiah) by Maulvi Abdul Karim of Sialkot was published, after covering the topic of the title, the book included the text of a public lecture given by the author in 1898 on the subject: 'What reform work has been carried out by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad'.
This section of almost 70 pages is well worth reading. Therefore I have made it available at this link.
— Zahid Aziz
Here is the Eid-ul-Fitr Message, June 2018, of Hazrat Ameer Dr A.K. Saeed, Head of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement.
Welcome to the Ramadan Daily Quran Studies for 2018
(Note: Any new posts during Ramadan will be filed below this post.)
Prayers urged on LAM members for Ramadan by Maulana Muhammad Ali: English translation | Urdu original
Some further prayers in Urdu advised by Maulana Muhammad Ali (added here 29 May)
Section on Lailat-ul-Qadr in Sahih Bukhari, translated into English by Dr Zahid Aziz and Mr Nasir Ahmad (added here 6 June)
Many of us will have a Ramadan of 29 days this year. Nonetheless I always produce 30 Studies.
Thanks to Allah for passing us through another month of Ramadan. May He keep us safe and well over the next year, ameen. Eid Mubarak to all readers!
A feature appeared in The Times (London), 2 June 2018, in its magazine section, carrying an interview with a Danish Muslim woman convert to Islam who runs an all-female mosque. She has written a book, Women are the Future of Islam, in which she "outlines her vision of a modern, gentle, flexible faith bridging the ever widening gulf between western society and orthodox teaching".
There was a programme on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday 27th May, in a series entitled Something Understood, on the topic of 'Righteous Anger', presented by a retired famous BBC correspondent Sir Mark Tully. It contained a short reading from my book Islam, Peace and Tolerance, from the beginning of chapter 7 ('Muslim Anger'). The programme producers had contacted me in advance to obtain permission.
At this link on the website of the BBC you can read the programme synopsis.
You can listen to the programme from this link, but need to register an account at the BBC and sign in to it. The reading from my book begins at 18:48.
If you scroll further down the above page, then under "Readings" you will see:
"Title: Islam, Peace and Tolerance
Author: Zahid Aziz
Published by Ahmadiyya Anjuman Lahore"
Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janan (1699-1780) was a famous Sufi poet of Delhi. It is said that he is recognized as one of the four pillars of eighteenth century Urdu poetry alongside with Sauda, Mir Taqi Mir and Khwaja Mir Dard.
Regarding the Hindu religion he expressed the views that:
See this article in The South Asian Tribune from 2010.
His statements about the Divine origin of the Hindu religion are in a letter to a disciple, which is found in a collection of his letters. Here is the link to that Urdu book (see Letter no. 14 on pages 92-95).
With the completion of the renovation of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Mosque in Berlin (built 1927), a ceremony was held on 17th April 2018 to mark this event.
Here is a link to a pdf document with some photographs of the occasion and links to two brief video clips.
Zahid Aziz