Commonsense About Ahmadiyyat — Page 7
:. This was no hardship for me, as I had already been living nearly by those conditions to which I came through the Quran and Hadith by my own efforts. A couple of more items to add to those was no difficulty. Reflecting further, except a minority, most Muslims are Muslims whatever way they live because their parents called themselves Muslims whatever way they themselves lived-mostly by their whims. But an Ahmadi Muslim has to pledge himself to live the Islamic life as was in the beginning of the history of Islam, which makes sense. I know a few Muslims who intellectually accept the claims of the Promised Messiah, but will not take the ‘ba'iat' because it will be hard for them to live by. Islam, and also it involves great monetary sacrifices. . When I had been an Ahmadi Muslim for a few months, some. Ahmadi friends suggested I should write on why I had become an. Ahmadi. The old Shavian in me suggested I should first study the opposite view of the orthodox Muslims on Ahmadiyyat or. Qadianism. I wrote to Dr M. Ahsan of the Islamic Foundation in. Leicester-the Orthodox Headquarters-requesting him to sell me if they have, or suggest to me the top ranking books which would effectively refute the claims of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of. Qadian. He sent me the names of three books and their authors, and said that he was glad that I was studying this subject. In a. Muslim bookshop in Birmingham-Paighame Islam-I readily found these books: Qadianism by S. Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi; His. Holiness by Phoenix; The Qadiani Problem by S. Abul A'la. Maududi, including two small articles by Sir Muhammad Iqbal. . They are well known authors of Sunni Islam in what was India and staunchly anti-Ahmadi. The books are well constructed and written by honest, sincere and eminent Islamic scholars; so are the Ahmadi Islamic books and their authors. It would be the height of folly to impute dishonesty or bad motives to either side. . Both sides believe what they believe sincerely, though one side must be wrong. (Sincerity by itself does not ensure truth; Hitler was sincere but neither right nor true. ) The crucial points are two in this case: One, what is the meaning of Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets? (Quran 33:41), and, two, is Jesus in person to come 7