Ahmadiyyat or Qadianism! Islam or Apostasy? — Page 325
CHAPTER TWO. INDEPENDENT UMMAH AND. CONNECTION WITH OTHER MUSLIMS. While the adversaries of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad have, on the strength of their analayis of the Ahmadiyya Muslim beliefs, failed to effectively prove that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is a separate. Ummah, distinct from Islam, they have tried to alienate the masses by asserting that the Ahmadi Muslims have: 'themselves severed all ties with Muslims and organised themselves collectively as a separate Ummat. ". To prove this contention, the anti Ahmadiyya mullahs argue that the members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community have: 'by their ways proved that they have no connection whatsoever with. Muslims. The [Hazrat] Mirza [Ghulam Ahmad] and his companions prohibited its followers to offer prayers behind the Muslims or to join prayers of Muslim funerals. He also forbade to have any ties of relationship such as marriages with Muslims. "2. One would have given some credit to these mullahs for their complaint but for the facts recorded by the history of this conflict. . The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established in 1889 CE and it was not until eleven years later, in 1900 CE, that its members were encouraged to make provisions of their own and organise themselves as a distinct entity within the broader spectrum of the Ummah. And what prompted the Ahmadiyya Muslim leadership to take this initiative which eventually resulted in segregation?. History records that within a few years of the initiation of Jamaat e 1. Maududi, A. A: The Qadiani Problem: pg8 2. Hasan, S: The Truth About Ahmadiyyat: pg 14 326