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The Light & Islamic Review "Call to the path of thy Lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and argue with people in the best possible manner." (Holy Quran 16:125) • Exponent of • Islam Presents and the Islam as: Lahore The Light PEACEFUL Ahmadiyya Movement & Islamic Review TOLERANT for over RATIONAL seventy-five INSPIRING years.• September - October 1997 • Special issue on the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement Vol. 74 CONTENTS No.S The Ahmadiyya Movement of Lahore - A Survey of the Origins, History, Beliefs, Aims, and Work of the Ahmadiyya A.njuman Isha 'at Islam Lahore by the Editor, pages 3-19. • Russian Translation of the Holy Quran published - Dr. Alexander Sadetsky's work appears in print. page 19. ► AhmadiyyaAnjuman Isha 'at Islam Lahore Inc. U.S.A. ◄ 1315 KingsgateRoad, Columbus, Ohio 43221-1504, U.S.A. www.alahmadiyya.org 2 THE LIGHT ■ SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 1997 The light was founded in 1921 as the organ of the AHMADIYYA ANJUMAN ISHA'AT ISLAM (Ahmadiyya Association for the propaga­ About ourselves. tion oflslam) of Lahore, Pakistan. The Islamic Review was published in England from 1913 for over 50 years, and in the U.S.A. 1980 to Ahmadiyya Anjuman lsha'at Islam Lahore has branches in the following countries: 1991. The present periodicalrepresents the beliefsof the world-wide branches of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha'at Islam, Lahore. U.S.A. Canada. U.K. Germany. ISSN: 1060-4596 Holland. South Africa. Editor: Dr. Zahid Aziz. Format & Design: The Editor. India. Indonesia. Circulation: Mrs. Samina Sahukhan, Dr. Noman I. Malik. Australia. Fiji. I Trinidad. Guyana. Articles, letters and all enquiries should be sent to: Suriname. 'The Light', 1315 Kingsgate Road, Columbus, The Movement has members and supp­ OHIO 43221-1504. U.S.A. orters in many other countries as well. In I Berlin, it has a large historical mosque E-mail: [email protected] constructed in the mid-1920s. WWW: http://rnembers.aol.com/aaiil Achievements: Beliefs and aims. The Anjuman has produced extensive literature on Islam, originally in English The main object of the A.A.1.1.L. is to present the true, original and Urdu, including translations of the message of Islam to the whole world - Islam as it is found in the Holy Quran with commentaries. These Holy Quran and the life of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, obscured books are being translated into other lan­ today by grave misconceptions and wrong popular notions. guages, such as French, German, Spanish, Islam seeks to attract the hearts and minds of people towards the Russian, Chinese and Japanese. truth, by means of reasoning, good moral example, and the natural TheAnjuman has run several Muslim beauty of its principles. It neither aspires to gain political power, nor missions around the world, including the first-ever in Western Europe. allows the use of force in support of the faith. The Movement's unique contribution to Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-1908), our Founder, arose Islamic thought is summed up on the left. to remind the world that Islam is: History: International: It recognizes prophets being raised among all 1889: Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad nations and requires Muslims to believe in them all. Truth and founded the Ahmadiyya Movement. goodness can be found in all religions. God treats all human 1901: Movement given name Ahmadiyya beings equally justly, regardless of race, nationality or religion. after Holy Prophet Muhammad's other famous name Al,mad. Peaceful: Allows use of force only in unavoidable self-defence. 190S: Hazrat Mirza appoints central body Teaches Muslims to live peacefully under any rule which accords (Anjuman) to manage the Movement. them freedom of religion. 1908: Death of Hazrat Mirza. Succeeded Tolerant: Gives full freedom to everyone to hold and practise by Maulana Nur-ud-Din as Head. any creed or religion. Requires us to tolerate differencesof belief 1914: Death of Maulana Nur-ud-Din. and opinion. Ahmadiyya Anjuman lsha'at Islam founded at Lahore as continuation of Rational: In all matters, it urges use of human reason and the original Anjuman. Maulana knowledge. Blind following is condemned and independence of Muhammad Ali elected as Head. thought is granted. 19S1: Death of Maulana Muhammad Ali Inspiring: Worship is not a ritual, but provides living contact after fifty years of glorious service to the cause of Islam. Maulana Sadr-ud­ with a Living God, Who answers prayers and speaks to His Din (d. 1981) becomes head. righteous servants even today as in the past. 1981-1996: Dr. Saeed Ahmad Khan, an Non-sectarian: Every person professing Islam by the words lii eminent doctor and religious scholar, led iliiha i/1-Alliih, Muhammad-ur rasul Allah (There is no god but the Movement, at a time of intense Allah, and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah) is a Muslim. persecution and opposition. A Muslim cannot be expelled from Islam by anyone. 1996: Prof. Dr. Asghar Hameed, a distin­ He also taught that no prophet, old or new, is to arise after the guished mathematician and Islamic Holy Prophet Muhammad. However, Mujaddids will be raised by scholar, becomes Head of Movement. God to revive and rekindle the light of the faith of Islam. THE LIGHT • SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 1997 3 The Ahmadiyya Movement of Lahore - A Survey by Dr. Zahid Aziz, Editor The Light and Islamic Review Introduction. Challenges to religion and to Islam. Much is heard these days of jihad and of militant In modem times, beginning in the early nineteenth Islamic parties in Muslim countries, and elsewhere, century, religion has fallen into much disrepute. As calling on the faithful to put this teaching of Islam a consequence of man's scientific discoveries and into practice in order to overthrow "man-made" or technological advances, serious doubts were created "satanic" systems of government and replace these regarding the existence of God. Firstly, if man can with what is called Islamic rule and government. himself unravel the mysteries of nature and can What is less in the public eye is the jihad which a acquire control over its forces,then he does not stand certain Muslim movement has been engaged in in need of the concept of God to explain existence or throughout the twentieth century, of peacefully to call upon the All-Powerful for help. Secondly, the disseminating knowledge of Islam in the world and super-natural phenomena upon which religion was striving to prove its truth, doing so particularly in based - the existence of God, communication from Westerncountries. The battle-fieldofthisjihad is not Him to human beings, His extraordinaryintervention any territory on earth but the hearts and minds of in the form of miracles - could not be proved or human beings, and the weapons with which it is discovered by scientific enquiry. Thirdly, several fought are not the gun and the bomb but argument discoveries of science, particularly about the origin of and evidence. the universeand of man, plainly disproved the history of creation as understood from religious scriptures. This, then, is the jihad which the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement has been conducting for more The assault by science as well as by other modem than eighty years. This form of jihad is not merely a thinking, and indeed some regrettableaspects of reli­ metaphorical or secondary interpretationof this well­ gious history itself, led to religion being regarded as known Islamic teaching, but it is, in fact,the real, the synonymous with superstition, ignorance, intolerance, permanent and the greatest form of jihad. The repea­ bigotry, bloodshed, repression, etc. ted exhortations of the Holy Quran to the believers, Besides this crippling assault by modem ideolo­ to strive (do jihad) with their lives and property, all gies upon religion in general, the faith of Islam was apply to the jihad of the peaceful propagation of suffering further devastating blows as a result of the Islam as much as they did to the battles which the downfall of Muslim political power in the world. Muslims had to fight in self-defence during the life of Muslims had long viewed their conquests and ruleas the Holy Prophet Muhammad. being proof of the truth of their religion, because the How did the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement come Divine promise made for its triumph over the unbe­ to be undertaking this rather unusual jihad? What is lievers had been fulfilled.But now the faithful were the source of its firm conviction that such ajihadwill facing defeat upon defeat at the hands of the unbe­ be ultimately successful,when in today's materialistic lievers. This consequently led to a deterioration in environment it is held - by non-Muslims and faith. Moreover, the Muslims were also facing an Muslims alike - that success can only be achieved ideological assault against their creed by the West. by means of political, military or some other worldly European writers and Christian proselytisers had form of power? And how can one believe that Islam, amassed mountains of objections against the teach­ of all religions and ideologies, shall spread in the ings of Islam and the life of the Holy Prophet world without the support and backing of some Muhammad to show that Islam was not of Divine power or state? These are the questions we now origin but was based on notions borrowed by the explore. Prophet fromearlier religions which he then moulded to suit his own ends. Its teachings and moral values, it was asserted, appealed only to the primitive mind, and were utterly out of place in the modem, civilized 4 THE LIGHT ■ SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 1997 and enlightened world. It urged its followersto resort grovels in dust and clings to its foolishness. to crude violence, and that was how it had succeeded The sun has arisen but it remains asleep in a in the past.
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