The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 171
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI. OBJECTION NO. 10:. National Assembly of Pakistan in 1974 declared the. Ahmadiyya Community to be non-Muslim. All sects of Islam were represented by National Assembly. Thus this is a decision of a great majority. . ANSWER:. A decision by a majority in religious matter does not make it right. Truth may be with the minority. Moreover it is not the function of a political assembly to declare any one sect or individual as nonMuslim. Any person who recites and believes in Kalima cannot be declared non-Muslim by any National Assembly or other group. . Great pride is expressed that a majority had agreed in this declaration. Was not the Holy Prophet and his Islamic community in. Mecca a minority? Was not Jesus with his twelve disciples a minority in his time? This is what the Holy Quran says about the majority of people: "And if thou obey most of those on earth, they will lead thee astray from Allah's way. They follow nothing but mere conjecture, and they do nothing but lie. " (6:17). There is a Hadith of the Holy Prophet in which he said that circumstances of my Ummat (community) will be quite similar to. Bani Israel. Israelites had divided into seventy two sects and my community will become divided in seventy three sects. They will all be on the wrong except one sect. He was asked which one will that be. The Holy Prophet answered that they will be following my way and that of my companions. (Tirmizi). . In 1974, some newspapers published headlines that seventy two sects of Islam had agreed in this declaration about Ahmadis. We are proud and happy to be the minority 73rd sect as predicted by the. Holy Prophet, peace be on him. . OBJECTION NO. 11: country. . Ahmadis are agents of Israel. They maintain a mission in that 171