From: nadeem@p.igp.ethz.ch (Nadeem Malik)
Subject: Re: Question about Judgement Day?
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:57:30 GMT

Rana Hassan (rhassan@csws3.ic.sunysb.edu) wrote:
: 	I have a question...Does it say in The Glorious Qu'ran that the Day
: of Judgement is close by when Muslims across the world are being persecuted
: or are considered an inferior race?  Isn't this the time when the Prophet
: Ees Al Islam is supposedly to come to this world and help Muslims in distress?
: Isn't this the time when the man who is blind in one eye (The "Anti-Islamic")
: comes about and makes half the population go against the world's greatest
: and only true religion -- Islam!!?  Isn't this the time when a lot of our so-
: called "Brothers in Islam." more like the "Hippocrites in Islam"?  Isn't this
: the time when the blowing of the trumpets is near?  Isn't this the time when
: the sound of the donkey is the sound of earth's final destiny?  Isn't this
: the time to tell all Muslims to work together, love together, and live
: together? S Shouldn't we all begin to talk to each other like teammates
: instead of fighting over STUPID things (half the things you guys fight over
: are answered in The Ever-Beautiful Qu'ran)?  Why don't we begin to talk
: to each other with ideas instead of arguments?  When we all have our turn on
: line, we will be judged by what we did, said, and thought not by what others
: told us.  If we corrected any errors of others with love and understanding,
: it just brings us one step closer to a better afterlife.  If we answered with
: anger, especially men to women (and vice-versa), it brings us closer to
: an afterlife which is one step closer to agony and pain.  Remember, we will
: begin loving each other once everyone will be smart enough to agree/disagree
: with others with a simple and loving reply instead of a rude and unworthy
: remark.  One more question, don't you think if we stick together like the
: Jews do we would accomplish MUCH more since we are practically one of the
: largest religions in the world?  Why do we have to wait for anyone divine
: to always help us out?  If we can do the job on our own then ALLAH will
: be most proud ESPECIALLY with the ones who started the "fire"!


: 					RHassan@ccmail.sunysb.edu
 Dear Rana bhai,

You have obviously not heard of the Ahmadiyya Movement In Islam. We are the
answer to your prayers and concerns.

You are absolutely right about the prophecies about the comming of the Promised
Messiah etc. But you have to approach in a logical and intellectual way to
understand what it means. I will give only a summary here, and invite you, and
others who are interested, to communicate with me for further details.

The seconding comming of Jesus (asa) is a figurative term meaning a messiah or
prophet like Jesus the first Messiah would appear with similar qualities and
functions. (Like John the Baptist was the 'second' comming of Elijah.) The
Dajjal (Anti-Christ) is a figurative description of the materialism, especially
of the Western powers, who would cause misery all over the world. 

In the mean time, the condition of Muslims would be the lowest of the low;
corruption would be rampant, lying, cheating, ignorance would be the order
of the day. There knowledge of Islam would be minimal. Out of love and
sympathy for Mankind, God would raise the Messiah, who is also called the
Mahdi in the hadith, who would fight and kill the Dajjal. This means that he
would bring back the lost knowledge of Islam back to earth again -- the
holy prophet (saw) said that the Mahdi would bring great wealth, which means
knowledge in religious terms. He also said that only 1 out of 73 sects in
Islam would be the correct Jamat, the rest would go to hell. 

We believe that God rasied Hazrat Mirza Ghulam AHmad as the Promised Messiah,
and the Jamat that he formed, the Jamat-e-Ahmadiyya is the 1 Jamat referred to
above. We are advocating exactly what you have suggested -- trying to
call Muslims back to Islam. Muslims must change drastically, because God says
in the Holy Quran that He does not bring about a change in a people until they
cahnge themselves first. Muslims musty become more moral in their conduct,
more sincere in their practices, and more loving and tollerant of humanity
in general. Then God will bring about a change in their situation and make
Islam spread to the ends of the earth.


I invite you, and all otghers, to examine this issue with open mind and
sincereity. Please contact me on nadeem@p.igp.ethz.ch




Wasaalam,

Nadeem Malik
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