Conditions of Bai'at and Responsibilities of an Ahmadi — Page 107
Condition VI 107 Hadrat ‘Amr Bin al-‘Auf ra has narrated that the Holy Prophet sa said, ‘The person who revives any one of my sunnah so that others start practicing it, he will reap the reward equal to all those persons’ rewards who act upon that sunnah , and their reward shall remain with them as well. The person who introduces an innovation and others adopt it, he shall share in the sins of all those who act on it, and their sins will remain with them as well. ’ ( Sunano Ibn-e-M aj ah , Kit a bul-Muqaddimah, B a bu man A hya Sunnatan qad um i tat) Evolving Innovations and Rituals Deserve to be Rejected In short, the Holy Prophet sa told us in the above-quoted a h ad i th that those innovations that have nothing to do with faith, which take one away from faith, which disrespect the commandments of Allah and His Apostle, are all worthy of rejection. They are all useless and ought to be shunned. Stay away from them because they will gradually corrupt faith. You can see that innovations have taken a firm foothold in other religions and have corrupted them. This, indeed, was bound to happen because it was destined that Islam should remain the only living faith. But if you make a close examina- tion you will find that other religions such as Christianity— despite being one religion—have made many local customs in different countries as a part of faith in that country. We observe the same phenomenon in Africa. When the path of innovations is opened, new innovations continue to creep up. The Holy Prophet sa has expressed grave concern and has given severe warnings to those who create innovations in