Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 43
25 October 1905 43 Holy Prophet s as had said about the people of this age ْ ْسُوْا مِنِّي ی َ ل ْ ْسُوْا مِنِّي ی َ ْل ْوَلَسْت ُ مِنْهُم وَلَسْت ُ مِنْهُم 1 — i. e. they will have nothing to do with me and I will have nothing to do with them—those people would be called Muslims, but they would have nothing to do with me. I call those people accursed who deny Islam’s name or con- sider it a cause of shame. I have introduced no innovation. Just as the names H anbal i , Sh a fi‘ i , etc. , existed, so is Ahmadi also a name. However, in the name Ahmad, there is a connection with Islam and the founder of Islam, Ahmad, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Furthermore, this connection is not present in other names. Ahmad is the name of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Islam is Ahmadi, and Ahmadi is Islam. The name given in the noble a ha d i th is Muhammadi. Sometimes there are many words, albeit the meaning is the same. The name Ahmadi is a distinguishing mark. There is so much turmoil in this age that it is unprecedented. So a name was necessary. In the sight of God, those who are Muslims are Ahmadis. 2 1. Masnad Ahmad ibn H anbal, Masnad al-Mukthir i n min a s - S a ha bah, Masnad J a bir ibn ‘Abdullah, Hadith 14378, vol. 9, p. 86, published by D a rul- H ad i th al-Q a hirah. [Publisher] 2. Badr, vol. 1, no. 32, p. 2–4, dated 3 November 1905