Commonsense About Ahmadiyyat — Page 4
Zafrulla Khan. This arrested my attention and I took the book home. Reading this book I felt the same sensation as I had felt when reading the Quran for the first time 15 years ago. I said to myself: This is it! As I finished reading the book, I made up my mind at once to join the Ahmadiyyah Movement, and I wrote to that effect to the Imam of the London Mosque. Once I had a book from the same Library on Bahaism, which did not attract me. I have been neutral towards the sectarian differences in. Islam and did not want to take interest in any one of them in particular. Plague on their houses, I thought. I would live, I thought, according to the Quran as I understood it, which held my interest deeply. I did not even want to trouble about the. Hadith, as I thought then that it was unnecessary; but I have changed my mind about that since I had read Sahih Muslim. . However, this matter of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (18351908) as being the Promised Messiah-Mahdi-Prophet-Messenger of God in our sophisticated age is extremely serious. If this is true, and we do not believe in this, or if this is not true, and we believe in it, we will be sitting on a volcano. That is the dilemma!. The more I read Ahmadiyyah literature, the firmer and firmer my belief became. Soon I took the ‘ba'iat' or oath of allegiance to the Ahmadiyyah Movement, that is, signed the document. It is this: 4. CONDITIONS OF BA'IAT (Allegiance) 16 Gressenhall Road,. London SW18 5QL. A person who joins the Ahmadiyyah Movement must firmly make up his mind:. FIRSTLY, that up to the day of his death he shall abstain from worshipping anyone but Allah. . SECONDLY, that he shall keep away from falsehood, adultery, gazing at women other than near relatives, cruelty, dishonesty, riot, rebellion and, in short, any kind of evil, and shall not allow himself to be carried away by his passions, however strong they may be. f