Refuting the Qadiani Jama‘at beliefs 

The term Qadiani Jama‘at is used in this discussion, without any offence intended, to refer to the movement which developed under the leadership of the late Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad, based first at Qadian, India, till 1947, and then at Rabwah, Pakistan. Since 1984 it has been based in England after the then head, the late Mirza Tahir Ahmad, was forced to flee Pakistan.

Under the following topics, the wrong beliefs of the Qadiani Jama‘at are refuted, and it is shown that Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad himself never entertained such views.

• Introduction: How and why the Split in the Ahmadiyya Movement took place in 1914
• Read new Urdu book Ikhtilaf Silsila Ahmadiyya
• Read detailed history of the Split:
  1. Book Split in the Ahmadiyya Movement by Maulana Muhammad Ali, published 1918
  2. Read chapters 5 and 6 in the Book The True Succession
• Declaring other Muslims as outside the fold of Islam:
  1. Qadiani Jama‘at declares all other Muslims as being kafir and outside the fold of Islam.
  2. Mirza Bashir Ahmad’s book declares other Muslims as kafir and non-Muslim in Islamic law.
  3. But Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad regarded other Muslims as Muslims.
  4. Contradictory positions of the Qadiani Jama‘at on calling other Muslims as kafir.
  5. Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din’s announcement on Mirza Mahmud Ahmad’s 1911 article calling other Muslims as kafir.
• They establish an autocratic khilafat, contrary to the teachings of Islam and of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad:
  1. Brief Review.
  2. Detailed article with references.
  3. The Will of the Promised Messiah (Al-Wasiyya)
  4. Reply to allegations against our interpretation of the Will of Promised Messiah
  5. New booklet refuting Qadiani Jama‘at concept of Khilafat:
     1. Urdu version
     2. English version
        
• Retraction of its beliefs by the Qadiani Jama‘at over the years
  1. Read in detail in ch. 7 of the book The True Succession
  2. Mirza Mahmud Ahmad retreats from his belief about the “coming Ahmad” prophecy
  3. Qadiani Jama‘at withdraws a revelation it put forward for over a century to call other Muslims as non-Muslims.
• Pre-Split beliefs in the Ahmadiyya Movement
• Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad did not claim to be a prophet
• Allegation regarding change of claim in 1901:
  1. 70 senior Ahmadis take oath that Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad did NOT change his claim from muhaddas to prophet.
  2. ‘Change of claim in 1901’ theory collapses under its own contradictions.
  3. Theory of change in claim in 1901 invented by Maulana Sana-ullah of Amritsar.
• Hadith reports misrepresented by the Qadiani Jama‘at:   25 August 2024
  1. A Hadith report about the “eternal khilafat”.
  2. Hadith report: “There is no prophet between me and Jesus”.
• Maulana Muhammad Ali challenges Qadiani Jama‘at to debate: Read in biography of Maulana Muhammad Ali, pages 323 to 345.
• Hazrat Maulana Nur-ud-Din:
  • Views of Hazrat Maulana Nur-ud-Din agree with Lahore Ahmadi beliefs
  • His visit to Lahore and speech, June 1912 — Defends Lahore Ahmadis
• Exaggeration of numbers: Mirza Mahmud Ahmad admits that his followers falsely exaggerate their numbers
• The Shimla (Simla) debate of 1915
• Reply to Mirza Tahir Ahmad’s mubahila challenge
• Published exchanges between Dr T. Ijaz of the Qadiani Jama‘at and Dr Zahid Aziz of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement, during October 2003 to March 2004, regarding the differences in beliefs.

Mirza Mahmud Ahmad’s claim of being Muslih Mau‘ud (Promised Reformer):

When Mirza Mahmud Ahmad announced his claim of being Muslih Mau‘ud (Promised Reformer) in 1944, Maulana Muhammad Ali refuted it immediately. We have translated the following three Friday Khutbas by Maulana Muhammad Ali which he delivered on this topic at the time in Lahore:

• 4 February 1944: Vain desires are the opposite of practical action
• 18 February 1944: Mirza Mahmud Ahmad has made religion into a children’s game
• 3 March 1944: The Quran on those who “take their desires for god”

Link to the translations of the above Khutbas

Mirza Mahmud Ahmad wrote in 1908 that the “Promised Son” would not be actual son of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Articles in past issues of ‘The Light’ about the Qadiani Movement:

• Reply to a Letter from a Qadiani (1996, issue 3)
• Qadiani beliefs refuted in Internet exchange (1996, issue 1)
• Qadiani Statement falsifies the Promised Messiah (1995, issue 1)
• Will Mujaddids come in future? Mirza Tahir Ahmad says “No”, but the Promised Messiah says “Yes” (1994, issue 6)
• Calling Muslims as kafir. Refutation of a repugnant belief, by Maulana Muhammad Ali. (1993, issue 6)
• Differences in belief of Lahore Ahmadis and Qadianis (1992, issue 4)

Sworn declaration by Maulana Muhammad Ali:

“I, Muhammad Ali, head of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Jamaat, do swear that my belief is that Hazrat Mirza [Ghulam Ahmad] sahib of Qadian is a Mujaddid and the Promised Messiah, but not a prophet, nor can any person become a kafir or excluded from the fold of Islam by denying him. This was also the belief of Hazrat Mirza sahib. O God, if I have uttered falsehood in this oath taken in Thy name, then send upon me from Thyself such exemplary punishment as has no human hand in it, and from which the world would learn how stern and terrible is God’s retribution for one who deceives His creatures by swearing falsely in His name.”

For the background to this sworn declaration, read the biography of Maulana Muhammad Ali, pages 339–342.