Praying In Ahmadiyya Mosque
1) Yes, they did went on war with claimants of prophethood. There were 3,4 different people who claimed prophethood and a couple of them did when Prophet was even alive. The companions also waged war against apostates, deniers of Zakah, against Persian and Roman empires. By that logic, we should start war with people of any such category living in today’s time and invade any other Non-Muslim country whenever we get enough resources and power to do so (there’s quite an astonishing number of Muslim clerics who actually advocate this approach based on Sahaba’s (Companions) actions). However, I see all those invasions, wars waged against apostates and claimants of prophethood falling under that specific law of completion of proof (ittemam-e-Hujjat). All of this was done under directions from the Quran & the Prophet. And its application came to an end after the end of Sahaba’s era. For details on law of Completion of proof please refer to the following thread: Discussion 1102 2) Should we have a problem with only a person claiming to be a prophet after prophet Muhammad (sws) or in all honesty, we should have a problem with anyone questioning and blatantly defying any essential part of our belief system. Just because Sufism doesn’t use the word prophet with them, doesn’t mean that their statements should experience any less scrutiny from a true Muslim. Their transgressions are beyond the transgressions committed by Mirza Ghulam Ahmed Qadiani (Both did trangress), both in scope of beliefs and in magnitude of their expression as well. So where do we want to draw the line? Isn’t it merely a line of comfort for us? Shouldn’t we be stretching further towards the line of truth that has been blurred by our constant bias and brain washing? As far as Brelvi and Deo-Baandi sects are concerned, they are both proponents of Tasawwuf in its very essence; and they makeup a vast majority of Muslim ummah. So in all fairness, I will never use a different yardstick to judge people effectively belonging to the same community. None of them is kafir, none of them intentionally committed such transgressions; many of them are following a particular understanding of a tenet of Islam just because they were told so. It is our job to present our point of view to them, so that instead of repelling them, we should provide them with an alternative, so that they should know that there is another path for them as well and seekers of truth will eventually find the truth. In the end , I would like to draw your attention to the following verses of The Holy Quran: وَقَالَتِ الْيَهُوْدُ عُزَيْرٌ ابْنُ اللّهِ وَقَالَتْ النَّصَارَى الْمَسِيْحُ ابْنُ اللّهِ ذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُم بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ يُضَاهِؤُوْنَ قَوْلَ الَّذِيْنَ كَفَرُوْا مِنْ قَبْلُ قَاتَلَهُمُ اللّهُ أَنَّى يُؤْفَكُوْنَ. اتَّخَذُوْا أَحْبَارَهُمْ وَرُهْبَانَهُمْ أَرْبَابًا مِّن دُوْنِ اللّهِ وَالْمَسِيْحَ ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ وَمَا أُمِرُوْا إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُوْا إِلَهًا وَاحِدًا لَّا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ سُبْحَانَهُ عَمَّا يُشْرِكُوْنَ. يُرِيدُوْنَ أَن يُطْفِؤُوْا نُوْرَ اللّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَيَأْبَى اللّهُ إِلَّا أَنْ يُتِمَّ نُوْرَهُ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَافِرُوْنَ. هُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُوْلَهُ بِالْهُدَى وَدِيْنِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّيْنِ كُلِّهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُشْرِكُوْنَ. [Their religion is only that] the Jews say that Uzayr is the son of God and the Nazarenes say that that the Messiah is the son of God. These are but words of their mouths. They are saying the same words as the disbelievers before them . The curse of God be on them. From where do they turn away. They have made their scholars and their rabbis as their Lord besides God and Jesus, son of Mary, as well even though they had been asked to worship one God only. There is no god except Him. He is exalted above the partners they associate with Him. They want to extinguish this light of God with the blows of their mouths and God has decided to complete His light, however much these disbelievers may dislike it. It is He Who has sent his rasul with guidance and the religion of truth that he may make it sovereign over all religions [of this land], even though the Idolaters may detest this. (9: 30-33) The reason why I pointed this out is the fact that Quran clearly calls this particular belief of Christians as a deed of Kufar, yet when a group of Christians from Najraan visited Prophet (sws) in Prophet’s mosque and asked to be excused for some time just so they can pray to God. The Prophet in response didn’t kick them out of the mosque just because their beliefs are Kufria, He in fact urged them to pray in the Mosque as it is a place for worship to the same God they both believe in. I think we should follow Prophet’s Uswa (role model) of tolerance and acceptability in normal circumstances.
Yes, you’ve summed up my points in a well sorted manner. Thank you. You’re free to critique these points and we can discuss them further or we can move to the next phase of discussion. Consider your ease please.