Why don’t Ahmadiyya Muslims perform Hajj?

 Only 2 Muslim groups have EVER been denied Hajj. Muhammad (saw) and his Sahaba by Meccan Kuffar and Ahmadi Muslims by the Ummah.

“And Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah) to the House (Kabah) is a duty that mankind owes to Allah, those who can afford the expenses (for ones conveyance, provision and residence); and whoever disbelieves (i.e. denies Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah), then he is a disbeliever of Allah), then Allah stands not in need of any of the Alameen (mankind and Jinns).” (Quran 3:97)

 Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah/ holy Ka’aba) is one the basic Pillars of Islam. The pilgrimage to Ka’aba is tradition that was a part of Arabic culture far back before the advent of Islam during Hazrat Ibrahim’s (A.S) era in the Arabia. After the advent of Islam, it was made an obligatory duty for all the believers once in a life time. But Islam gives exemption to a certain group of people, and on the top of the list are those who are being stopped by a tyrant leader.

Pakistan’s Outcast Ahmadi Muslims

 

Pakistan’s constitution was amended 40 years ago to declare Ahmadis to be non-Muslims. Regarded by orthodox Muslims as heretical, Ahmadis are not allowed to refer to their places of worship as mosques or to publicly quote from the Koran – acts punishable by imprisonment of up to three years.

Critics of the anti-Ahmadi laws say they have encouraged violence against the community. Residents of the all-Ahmadi town of Rabwah told BBC Urdu’s Nosheen Abbas of their fears for the future.

Pakistan's Ahmadiyya: An 'absence of justice'

"[Outraging the sentiments of Muslims] is something that I am not doing, it is something that [the other person] is feeling. Now if I am sitting at home and reading the Quran, your sentiments are outraged. If I am watching a TV programme, your sentiments are outraged. Using this as a basis, anyone can do anything […] I don't even know what the criminal actions are!"

 

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By Asad Hashim | August 7, 2014

Rabwah, Pakistan - Seeing her lying in her hospital bed, it’s difficult to tell what Mubashara Jarra has been through. Outwardly, she appears fine. No intravenous tubes snaking into her body, and no bandages covering up her wounds.

"I'm feeling much better," she says, in a low voice.

It is, perhaps, only her vacant eyes that betray her ordeal. Jarra, 32, was trapped in a room, along with many of her family members, in her home in the Pakistani city of Gujranwala, as an angry mob burned down her neighbourhood on July 27. She saw her nieces - Hira Tabussum, 7, and seven-month-old Kainat - and mother, Bushra Bibi, 55, die of smoke inhalation, as she, her brother and his children struggled to stay alive.

Pakistan: Mob attack over alleged blasphemy resulted in three Ahmadis killed in Gujranwala

GUJRANWALA: Three female members of the Ahmadi community, including two minors, were killed last Sunday (July 27, 2014) and eight others were severely injured when an angry mob attacked and burnt five houses, a storage building and several vehicles over alleged blasphemy.

Those killed in the attack include a 55-year-old woman Bashiran, a minor girl Kainat and 7-year-old girl Hira.

The victims were rushed to the district headquarters hospital and the condition of few wounded was reported as critical.

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of the People's Colony Circle as saying that the trouble started with an allegedly blasphemous post on Facebook by an Ahmadi youth.

The son of a Imam of a local mosque along with his friends reached the house of the youth where they entered into a scuffle and were allegedly fired upon.

The State Has No Business Deciding Someone’s Faith - 1974: From Democracy to Extremism

 One of the most majestic and arresting structures of Europe is the Great Mosque of Cordova. Apart from exquisite architecture, the unique thing about the mosque is that it is not really a mosque. Built in the eighth century by the Umayyad Caliphate as one of the greatest mosques, it was converted into a cathedral in the 13th Century after the Christian reconquest of Spain. Today, it is a building with an identity crisis, a mosque with a cathedral erected in the middle. Yet, anyone who has been a tourist there would know that one has to ask for directions to the Mezquita (mosque) or the Mezquita-Catedral (Mosque Cathedral) as that is what the locals refer to it as even after more than seven centuries of it being a cathedral. It stands as a symbol of defiance to the impulses of conquest and rebranding of buildings and indeed history. The obsession with demolishing, branding and rebranding buildings has not been extinguished with the Crusades, the Babri Mosque fiasco being a representative example. More recently, a court in Lahore had a petition asking that an Ahmadi place of worship should have the dome and minaret demolished, lest it misleads the faithful into believing that it is a mosque.

Sorry Won’t Cut It In Indonesia Human Rights Cases: Political Leader

Indonesia had a ministry specifically for human rights issues, as well as an independent rights commission and a host of nongovernmental organizations concerned with the issue, giving the government little excuse to ignore any cases.

Source/Credit: Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int'l Desk
 

The Jakarta Globe

By SP/Robertus Wardi | June 03, 2012

The government must be serious about bringing a raft of alleged human rights abuses to trial, in light of international scrutiny of Indonesia’s track record, a senior opposition legislator said on Friday.

Tjahjo Kumolo, the secretary general of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), said no indications of rights abuse should be ignored.

“No matter how small the cases, human rights problems should be dealt with,” he said “As with a wound, it should be cleaned. All cases should be resolved legally.”
Indonesia, he said, had a ministry specifically for human rights issues, as well as an independent rights commission and a host of nongovernmental organizations concerned with the issue, giving the government little excuse to ignore any cases.

Tjahjo’s remarks came a week after Indonesia was criticized at a United Nations rights review for a rise in intolerance and attacks against religious minorities, as well as impunity for security forces accused of rights violations.

Tjahjo said the impact of failing to address these problems was severe, citing a previous US prohibition on arms sales to Indonesia in light of abuses by the military in East Timor.

“We could face international isolation. It’s only reasonable to expect other countries to spotlight human rights conditions in Indonesia,” he said.

He added that a blanket apology from the government for past rights abuses was not enough.

“It’s not just a matter of apologizing. Human rights matters should be settled justly, so that the victims can obtain legal certainty,” Tjahjo said. Read original post here: Sorry Won’t Cut it in Indonesia Human Rights Cases: Tjahjo

For Ahmadiyya Muslims, Another Memorial Day

Earlier this month, Los Angeles Times reported from Lahore that Pakistani police took hammers and chisels and began destroying sections of an Ahmadiyya Muslim Community mosque because they claimed the dome and Koranic inscriptions made the building appear too much like a mosque.

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By Harris Zafar | May 29, 2012

On May 28th this year, we observed Memorial Day, a day to remember and honor those who have died in service to our nation. But on this year’s Memorial Day, I also reflected on other brave souls who died in another service: to their faith. May 28th has a special significance not just for me and the tens of millions of members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community worldwide. It is also a day of significance for all peace-loving and just people who desire equal human rights and a world that is free from religious and other persecution.

Eye On Indonesia: Lying For The Country...

The government may be right in claiming that these attacks were perpetrated by private organisations so that it can deny, as it would, that there has been an official persecution against religious minorities. But the attacks on Ahmadis and the Shiites have the official blessing, if not approval, of Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali. 

The trouble with Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa is that he has probably spent too much of time travelling abroad to really understand what’s going on in his own country. On Monday he said the government has done enough to protect the interests of Indonesia’s religious minorities.

Pakistan: Prosecute Ahmadi Massacre Suspects - Act Against Militant Groups, Revoke Discriminatory Laws....

It's obscene that two years after the worst massacre in Lahore since the partition of India, the government has still not brought the suspects apprehended at the scene to trial. By pandering to extremists who foment violence against the Ahmadis, the government emboldens militants who target the beleaguered community, and reinforces fear and insecurity for all religious minorities. [Brad Adams ( HRW)]

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Human Rights Watch
By HRW | May 27, 2012

(New York) – Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments should bring to justice those responsible for the May 2010 attacks on Ahmadiyya mosques that killed 94 worshipers, Human Rights Watch said today.

On May 28, 2010, Islamist militants attacked two Ahmadiyya mosques in the city of Lahore with guns, grenades, and suicide bombs, killing 94 people and wounding well over 100. The Punjabi Taliban, a local affiliate of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (the Pakistani Taliban or TTP), claimed responsibility. Two men were captured during the attack, but the government has failed to make progress on their trial, seeking repeated adjournments from the court as has the defense.

Murder In The Name Of God.....



Pakistan's Bloody Massacre Will Always Be Remembered!

 







It was Friday May 28th 2010 and both mosques were packed with the congregations gathered to offer their weekly Jumu’ah (Friday) prayers when terrorists attacked the two Ahmadiyya Muslim mosques in Lahore, the largest city in Pakistan, Punjab Province... Using hand grenades and automatic rifles, the terrorists entered the mosques in a coordinated and planned attack at two different locations, and started shooting indiscriminately. In a short period of time, more than 85 were martyred and many more injured.

Kazakhstan: Ahmadi Muslims Worship Closed Down Everywhere, Methodist Congregation Next?

Community member Nurym Taibek told Forum 18 they see no point in appealing against the decision and said that they "have given up hope" of resuming worship in their building. 

Source/Credit: Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int'l Desk
Forum 18 News Service
By Mushfig Bayram | April 24, 2012

Public religious worship by the Ahmadi Muslim community has been forced to stop throughout Kazakhstan as they no longer have anywhere they can legally meet, community members lamented to Forum 18 News Service.
 

The Ahmadi Muslim community in Kazakhstan's commercial capital Almaty was forced to close on 2 March after being fined by Land Inspectors for using a private home for religious worship.

The enforced closure of their places of worship is a result of the continuing campaign by Land Agency officials, Prosecutor's Offices and other authorities to stop and punish meetings for religious worship in private homes, Forum 18 notes.