Murder in the Name of Allah — Page 72
Murder in the Name of Allah matter. He was executed in the reign of Aurangzib (reigned 16581707). His mazar (tomb) which is opposite the Jami Masjid in Delhi, attracts daily hundreds of Muslims, offering flowers and Fatihah. . In Afghanistan, two Ahmadis were executed for accepting the claim of Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas of Qadian to be the Promised. Messiah: Sahibzadah Abdul Latif, who performed the coronation ceremony of Amir Habib Ullah Khan, was stoned to death in 1903 and Maulwi Nimat Ullah in 1924. Both were given the chance of renouncing the claims of Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas, but they refused. . Muhammad Mahmud Taha was executed in the Sudan in 1985. . He believed the Medinite part of the Quranic law was no longer applicable. . Significantly, the Ottoman sultan, though the head of a religious empire and caliph of all Muslims, did not order the execution of Baha. Ullah (1817-92) for irtidad. Baha Ullah declared himself to be the. Promised One, foretold by Bab,43 and founded Bahaism as a religion. . Bahaism was and is totally different from Islam. It declares that the arrival of Baha Ullah makes the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad - may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him - out of date. Baha Ullah was jailed in Akka (Acre) near Haifa, then in Palestine, now Israel. But when Sabbatai Zevi (1627-76), a Jewish mystic, proclaimed himself the. Messiah in 1648, the Shaykh-ul-Islam of the Ottoman Empire ordered his execution. He was arrested, recanted from his claim simply to escape death, and embraced Islam. Baha Ullah claimed to be a new manifestation of God and left Islam, but was not executed despite his apostasy because he was not a danger to law and order in the Ottoman Empire. . As we have already seen, the concept of apostasy is alien to Islam and there is no punishment in this world for recanting. But the ulema who appeared before the Court of Inquiry, constituted under the Punjab Act. II of 1954 to enquire into the Punjab disturbances of 1953, asserted that 'apostasy in an Islamic state is punishable by death'. They were:. Maulana Abul Hasanat Sayyad Muhammad Ahmad Qadri, President,. Jamiat-ul-Ulamai-Pakistan, Punjab; Maulana Ahmad Ali, Sadr Jamiatul-Ulama-e-Islam, West Pakistan; Maulana-Abul Ala Maududi, founder and ex-Amir-i-Jamaati Islami, Pakistan; Mufti Muhammad Idris, Jami. Ashrafia, Lahore, and member, Jamiat-ul-Ulamai-Pakistan; Maulana. Daud Ghaznavi, President, Jamaati Ahl-i-Hadith, Maghribi Pakistan;. Maulana Abdul Haleem Qasimi, Jamiat-ul-Ulamai-Islam, Punjab; and. Mr Ibrahim Ali Chishti. 4 44 72