Are Ahmadis Not True Muslims? — Page 34
34 ? This is a right that God has bestowed upon Ahmadis. It is God Almighty who confers this right on a person—whether he should accept or reject a prophet. No maulav i has this right, including Maulav i Ludhi a na vi. The very same God who conferred on all human beings the right to accept His messengers has also granted this right to Ahmadis, that they may accept Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as , as the Messiah and Mahd i, within the ummah of the Holy Prophet saw. Maulav i Ludhi a na vi needs to take a moment here to reflect and answer that, if he has the belief that when Hadrat ‘Is a as will reappear in the Ummah, hundreds of years after the passing of the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw , will he accept him as a prophet of God, and still call himself a Muslim? If he had paid heed to the following statements, he would have refrained from asking this question. This is what Hadrat Mu h iyyudd i n ibn-e- ‘Arab i rta wrote: AMN '<! O2! P =8 M Q "#$% RS -+ TCU 2V HW. ‘ I s a, may peace be on him, will appear among us as an Arbitrator, without a shariah, and undoubtedly will be the Prophet of God. ( Fut uha t-e-Makkiyyah , by ibn-e-‘Arab i rta , vol. 1, p. 662, published by Daro-I h y a ’-at-Tur a th, al-‘Arab i, Beirut) This is what Maulav i Muhammad Shaf i‘ , a prominent muft i and learned Deoband i leader, wrote: Whoso refuses to accept the prophethood of Hadrat ‘ I s a is a disbeliever. This injunction will remain in effect even after