The Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement Blog

This link on the Mutazila site is basically a summary of what Dr. Shabbir has written and posted on his site distributed among various books/articles and to introduction of his translation of Quran, especially the critique of previous Muslim theological works and Persian and Zoroastrian influence via Abbasid court.
 
Do not be surprised if you see various Arabic dictionaries including the one by Ghulam Ahmed Parwez. The one dictionary obviously missing is by Abdul Mannan Omar . If I recall correctly, late Mannan sahib significantly disagreed by the former’s grasp of Arabic. Dr. Shabbir belongs to same school of thought founded by Ghulam Ahmed Parwez.
 
I have no problem with Dr. Shabbir’s (and late Parwez sahib) point of view about the theological sources of Islam, where he quite bluntly expunges the superfluous ideas from Islamic thought, but in the process he restricts Islam to pre-determined rigid moral laws alone.  In my view, what he misses is that there is an active and interactive God out there who could be sought by man in an almost a child-parent relationship and that there is room for spiritual connection of man and God.
 
With the above background thought, my impression is that Mutazila and Ourbeacon are one and the same or intersect on majority of their scope, yet both combined are sub-set of AAIIL.
 
As a rule, a subset cannot define its super set e.g. scientific laws are subset of Allah’s Laws, hence science alone is an inadequate medium to prove God.  Therefore, I am not surprised that Mutazila totally missed out on AAIIL despite claiming to be “This website does not promote one or the other view of Islam. It is purely meant for scholarly work. Whatever label (Modernist, Rationalist, Quran-only, Reformist, Anti-Hadith, Mutazila…) was attached in the past against one or the other group, it is important to study their writings and their sources and only then one should make independent judgment about them and about their work.”

I am not familiar with Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad so I looked for information about him. Somehow I was confused on the wikipedia article, which indicated that he declared that Isa survived crucifixion and later died a natural death.
Anyway, I have to agree that the final authority on Islam must rest with the Quran and Quran alone.

Killing of Osama bin Laden was the EASIEST part for US in her war against terror. The most difficult challenge for US administrations, including current and future ones, is to INTROSPECT and figure out why terrorists like OBL are born. And what can prevent from more OBL to be born in future.  Is it because of foreign policies of US administrations that rally people behind terrorists such as OBL?
 
At the end of WWII, every Muslim country, with exception of Afghanistan was European colony. So, when these Muslim countries won their freedom, they all became natural ally of USA. As USA herself was a European colony. Unfortunately, with in couple of decades after WWII these buddies of USA started hating their friend and started getting more close to former bad guys i.e. European countries. Obviously, Muslim countries have never been in a position to make their foreign policies that distanced them from USA. It was US foreign polices that turned Muslim populations in Muslim countries to leave relationship of friendship and adopt hatred for USA. Here are few examples:

1-     Unfair support of US for Israel since 1948.
2-     US organized overthrow of legitimate elected national government of Dr. Mussaddaq, Prime Minister of Iran, and then public hanging of his cabinet in 1953.
3-     US support of dictators in Muslim countries since early 1950s.
 
Please don’t forget it was mistake of USA to support Political-Religious parties in Muslim countries such as Jamaat-I-Islami in Pakistan etc to prepare Muslim populations to fight growing communist influence. This US support was from early 1950s in all of the Muslim countries. Now the same forces have turned against USA.
 
A good thing out of this war on terror will come out. So far, Islam is VICTIM and its followers among Muslims and its opponents among Jews, Christians, and Hindus are PERPETRATORS. Muslims misrepresent Islam and opponents use those misrepresentations to attack on Islam. With fight between these groups, they both are becoming weak. One is militarily i.e. Muslims, and other ethically and economically i.e. opponents. As a result moderate Muslims who present Islam as rational, tolerant, peaceful, inspiring, international and non-sectarian will emerge and Islam will win in the end. InshAllah. I hold belief that followers and opponents of Islam in the end will accept interpretations of Islam, as presented by Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement. InshAllah.

The Ahrar Group claims that Akbar Shah Khan left LAM? Is this true? I saw his wikipedia page and came across this.

He defnitley left the main Jama'at. But I certainly dont think he left the Lahore Jama'at, thats why I am asking. Being part of the Lahore Jama'at allows for more publicity among sunnis etc

But my question was did he have relations with the Lahori Jama'at post 1927. As thats the last ref where we can indicates he was an Ahmadi as Musleh Maud (ra) only says he broke his pledge.

My question is what is the Lahori Jama'at position on him after 1927? If remained an Ahmadi in any sense then I think it is best remove the Ahrar ref from wikipwdia as it is not a reliable anyway. Thats why I am asking.