Ahmadiyyat or Qadianism! Islam or Apostasy?

by Naeem Osman Memon

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Ahmadiyyat or Qadianism! Islam or Apostasy? — Page 218

Messiah: 'a great slaughter of the Jews will ensue and every one of them will be annihilated. The nation of the Jews will be exterminated. 19 fails to find support within the anti Ahmadiyya fraternity since some colleagues of the sponsor of this argument believe that the Promised. Messiah will only bring bring about a complete subjugation of the Jews20 hence suggesting that the Jewish nation would not be exterminated but will be brought under, God forbid, the repressive yoke of the Messiah who would coerce people, or shall one say Christians, to abandon their own faith and accept Islam. . But this argument of the antagonists is not the only evidence against the hypothesis suggesting that the entire race of the Hebrew people will be annihilated. Infact, this weird argument is nullified by a larger majority of Traditions attributed to our beloved master, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Traditions for instance indicate that the. Anti Christ would be supported by a host of only 70,000 Jews and this figure represents a tiny fraction of the universal Hebrew population even today. . A minute scrutiny of these anti Ahmadiyya publications reveals that while the opponents of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community have extracted whatever suit their purpose from the Traditions attributed to our beloved master, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, they have ignored such other evidence within the Traditions as nullifies their conjectures. . For instance, while one critic of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad quotes a Tradition attributed to the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, which states that when the Promised Messiah and his army engages the Dajaal and his host even the trees and the stones will cry out and draw the attention of Muslims to some Jew hiding behind them and hence in this way, God will cause the Jews to be annihilated, 21 he ignores certain other Traditions 19. Maududi, A. A: Finality of Prohethood: pg 69 20. Hasan, S: The Truth About Ahmadiyyat: pg 7 21. Maududi, A. A: Finality of Prophethood: pg 59 219