Sunday, September 16, 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Master Abdul Quddus Shaheed
When the cops are the criminals
Reports
of persecution and atrocities against Ahmadis seldom receive any condemnation
from the media, and you can forget about any serious investigation by the
authorities into criminal acts if Ahmadis are the victims.
Ahmadiyya
Times | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: San Bernardino Sun
By Imam Shamshad A. Nasir May 13, 2012
In a civilized society, when someone commits a murder, you call the police - expecting them to uphold the law and arrest whoever committed the crime.
But who do you call when the criminals are the police themselves? In the town of Rabwah, Pakistan, several senior police officers are accused of detaining for 46 days without charges 43-year-old Abdul Qudoos Ahmad, a well-known and respected Ahmadi Muslim schoolteacher. The police are also accused of brutally torturing Mr. Qudoos for at least 10 straight days in an apparent attempt to force him to confess to a murder he did not commit, or else implicate high-ranking officials of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Rabwah.
All for the purpose of discrediting the avowedly peace-loving and non-violent Ahmadi Muslims, who founded and built Rabwah in the early 1950s as the headquarters for their Islamic organization in Pakistan.
Mr. Qudoos was the president of the Nusratabad chapter of the Ahmadiyya Community in Rabwah. He is survived by his wife, four children and his parents.
During the illegal police detention, Mr. Qudoos was not allowed to meet his family, nor he was provided medical treatment or a lawyer, nor was he officially charged with any crime. According to information received from inside sources, cruel and merciless tortures led to multiple organ failure, internal bleeding and other traumatic injuries. When the condition of Mr. Qudoos deteriorated to a near death state, the police released him to his family on March 26 so he wouldn't die in police custody. His family rushed him to a hospital, but despite the best efforts of doctors who applied emergency treatment, Mr. Qudoos could not recover from his injuries and died March 30. But before he passed away, he was able to detail the excruciating tortures he was subjected to and why.
The "why" of course is the reason Abdul Qudoos was unlawfully detained and tortured by the police in the first place: he was an Ahmadi Muslim - a "Qadiani" in the parlance of the policemen accused of causing his death.
"Qadiani" is the derogatory term used throughout Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Middle East where Ahmadis are the most persecuted by other Muslims. The name comes from the town of Qadian in Northern India where the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, was born in 1835.
Reports of persecution and atrocities against Ahmadis seldom receive any condemnation from the media, and you can forget about any serious investigation by the authorities into criminal acts if Ahmadis are the victims. When the government, via its Constitution and penal codes, mandates the marginalization and second-class citizenship of Ahmadis, allowing banners openly calling for their murder as apostates in Islam, the last thing you are going to see in Pakistan is justice for Ahmadis.
Ahmadis are singled out by name in Pakistan's Constitution and penal codes, declared "non-Muslims" and forbidden from publicly practicing or preaching Islam. They can be fined and jailed for "posing" as Muslims if they say "Salaam Alaikum," the standard Islamic greeting of peace, or if they refer to themselves as Muslims, or call their places of worship "mosques." In fact, if an Ahmadi says or writes anything regarding Islam and especially the Holy Prophet Muhammad that any other Muslim deems objectionable, the Ahmadi can have a case filed against them at any police station charging them with blasphemy. And the accuser never has to provide any evidence, as this would mean repeating the supposedly blasphemous statement and thus being liable for a blasphemy charge as well.
The most infamous blasphemy case in Pakistan to date is that of Aasia Bibi, a Christian mother of five who was charged with blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad and sentenced to death in November 2010. She denies ever doing this and there is no evidence against her - only the accusations themselves - yet still she waits in jail for her death sentence to be carried out, despite international pleas for mercy and a governmental pardon from human rights groups, religious leaders and politicians.
So who do you turn to for help when the people charged with upholding justice are the ones responsible for injustice, torture and murder? In the case of Abdul Qudoos, where the police, courts, politicians and media in Pakistan either ally themselves with or tremble before the extremist mullahs, the push for justice will have to come from the conscience and press of the international community. But the deliverance of justice will, ultimately, come from one source: the Court of God. Ahmadi Muslims petition this court with patience and prayer, and await God's just verdict which we have firm faith will be in the favor of Abdul Qudoos.
Imam Shamshad A. Nasir is imam of Baitul Hamid Mosque in Chino.
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Source/Credit: San Bernardino Sun
By Imam Shamshad A. Nasir May 13, 2012
In a civilized society, when someone commits a murder, you call the police - expecting them to uphold the law and arrest whoever committed the crime.
But who do you call when the criminals are the police themselves? In the town of Rabwah, Pakistan, several senior police officers are accused of detaining for 46 days without charges 43-year-old Abdul Qudoos Ahmad, a well-known and respected Ahmadi Muslim schoolteacher. The police are also accused of brutally torturing Mr. Qudoos for at least 10 straight days in an apparent attempt to force him to confess to a murder he did not commit, or else implicate high-ranking officials of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Rabwah.
All for the purpose of discrediting the avowedly peace-loving and non-violent Ahmadi Muslims, who founded and built Rabwah in the early 1950s as the headquarters for their Islamic organization in Pakistan.
Mr. Qudoos was the president of the Nusratabad chapter of the Ahmadiyya Community in Rabwah. He is survived by his wife, four children and his parents.
During the illegal police detention, Mr. Qudoos was not allowed to meet his family, nor he was provided medical treatment or a lawyer, nor was he officially charged with any crime. According to information received from inside sources, cruel and merciless tortures led to multiple organ failure, internal bleeding and other traumatic injuries. When the condition of Mr. Qudoos deteriorated to a near death state, the police released him to his family on March 26 so he wouldn't die in police custody. His family rushed him to a hospital, but despite the best efforts of doctors who applied emergency treatment, Mr. Qudoos could not recover from his injuries and died March 30. But before he passed away, he was able to detail the excruciating tortures he was subjected to and why.
The "why" of course is the reason Abdul Qudoos was unlawfully detained and tortured by the police in the first place: he was an Ahmadi Muslim - a "Qadiani" in the parlance of the policemen accused of causing his death.
"Qadiani" is the derogatory term used throughout Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Middle East where Ahmadis are the most persecuted by other Muslims. The name comes from the town of Qadian in Northern India where the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, was born in 1835.
Reports of persecution and atrocities against Ahmadis seldom receive any condemnation from the media, and you can forget about any serious investigation by the authorities into criminal acts if Ahmadis are the victims. When the government, via its Constitution and penal codes, mandates the marginalization and second-class citizenship of Ahmadis, allowing banners openly calling for their murder as apostates in Islam, the last thing you are going to see in Pakistan is justice for Ahmadis.
Ahmadis are singled out by name in Pakistan's Constitution and penal codes, declared "non-Muslims" and forbidden from publicly practicing or preaching Islam. They can be fined and jailed for "posing" as Muslims if they say "Salaam Alaikum," the standard Islamic greeting of peace, or if they refer to themselves as Muslims, or call their places of worship "mosques." In fact, if an Ahmadi says or writes anything regarding Islam and especially the Holy Prophet Muhammad that any other Muslim deems objectionable, the Ahmadi can have a case filed against them at any police station charging them with blasphemy. And the accuser never has to provide any evidence, as this would mean repeating the supposedly blasphemous statement and thus being liable for a blasphemy charge as well.
The most infamous blasphemy case in Pakistan to date is that of Aasia Bibi, a Christian mother of five who was charged with blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad and sentenced to death in November 2010. She denies ever doing this and there is no evidence against her - only the accusations themselves - yet still she waits in jail for her death sentence to be carried out, despite international pleas for mercy and a governmental pardon from human rights groups, religious leaders and politicians.
So who do you turn to for help when the people charged with upholding justice are the ones responsible for injustice, torture and murder? In the case of Abdul Qudoos, where the police, courts, politicians and media in Pakistan either ally themselves with or tremble before the extremist mullahs, the push for justice will have to come from the conscience and press of the international community. But the deliverance of justice will, ultimately, come from one source: the Court of God. Ahmadi Muslims petition this court with patience and prayer, and await God's just verdict which we have firm faith will be in the favor of Abdul Qudoos.
Imam Shamshad A. Nasir is imam of Baitul Hamid Mosque in Chino.
Read original post here: When the cops are the criminals
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Life
It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return.
But what is more painful is to love someone and never
find the courage to let that person know how you feel.
A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who
means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was
never meant to be and you just have to let go.
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a
porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away
feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose
it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been
missing until it arrives.
It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an
hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it
takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Don't go for looks, they can deceive. Don't go for wealth,
even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you
smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day
seem bright.
Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go,
be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and
one chance to do all the things you want to do.
Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it
hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.
A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck
a life. A timely word may level stress. But a loving word may
heal and bless.
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best
of everything they just make the most of everything that comes
along their way.
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with
a tear. When you were born, you were crying and everyone
around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die,
you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.
find the courage to let that person know how you feel.
A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who
means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was
never meant to be and you just have to let go.
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a
porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away
feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose
it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been
missing until it arrives.
It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an
hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it
takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Don't go for looks, they can deceive. Don't go for wealth,
even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you
smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day
seem bright.
Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go,
be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and
one chance to do all the things you want to do.
Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it
hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.
A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck
a life. A timely word may level stress. But a loving word may
heal and bless.
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best
of everything they just make the most of everything that comes
along their way.
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with
a tear. When you were born, you were crying and everyone
around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die,
you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
حالات حاضرہ
Daily
Times
Thursday, May 03, 2012
Hate
campaign against Ahmadis reaches new heights
* Government seems to succumb under pressure from extremists
Staff Report
LAHORE: The hate campaign against Ahmadis reached new
heights in
Pakistan
and even innocent children are not spared now.
These
were the findings of an annual report, the Persecution of Ahmadis
in Pakistan, released by the
Jamaat Ahmadiyya Pakistan on
Wednesday. The report said, “There was an open hate campaign against
Ahmadis in Pakistan
and young children studying in nursery grade
classes are not even spared from this horrific discrimination and
hatred.” Six Ahmadis lost their lives because of the fact that they
were Ahmadis and more than 20 were injured in assassination attempts.
“The hate filled posters; stickers, fliers and calendars were
openly distributed across Pakistan,”
it added. The report specifically
mentioned the hate campaigns faced by the Ahmadis in Faisalabad where fliers
and leaflets were openly distributed calling people
to kill Ahmadis. The government and security agencies failed
to take any concrete action against such actions. Punishing the
culprits behind these leaflets and hate material was a far cry.
The
extremists have increased efforts to isolate the community and the
campaign to encourage people to boycott Ahmadis and Ahmadi products
was also a major issue. Expelling children from educational
institutions also increased and even kids studying in nursery
were not spared. Ahmadi children faced expulsion from schools
or outright refusal by the educational institutions to admit them.
The
government seemed to succumb under the pressure from extremists
and decided to look other way while these acts of hate and
terror were carried out. All the acts, perpetrated after the Anti-Ahmadiyya
Ordinance 1984, were against the fundamentals of
the constitution. The post-1984 era was marked an increasingly difficult
period for Ahmadis. The report urged the government to consider
Ahmadiyya-specific laws and ensure that Ahmadis in Pakistan were
given equal rights as any other citizen. “Ahmadis are
facing legal, social, cultural and political discrimination because
of these laws which are against the very base of our society
where equal rights of individual are prime,” it added.
“There
have been 210 deaths after the imposition of these discriminatory
laws in 1984, 254 assassination attempts on various Ahmadis,
23 Ahmadi places of worship were demolished and 28 were
sealed by the administration, 16 places of worship were forcefully
taken over, 29 graves of Ahmadis were opened and desecrated
and 57 Ahmadis were refused burial in common graveyards,”
the report read further.
The
report also read during 2011 Ahmadis were not allowed to build places
of worship anywhere in Pakistan.
At many places, police forcefully
stopped the construction of places of worship. As a matter
of fact, according to the constitution every citizen was free to
practice his or her faith and build places of worship. Just because of
prejudice, Ahmadi businesses were targeted and Ahmadi officials were
being victimised. According to the report, in 2011 as well, Ahmadis
were not allowed to hold any convention in Rabwah, where
95 percent people belonged to Ahmadiyya community. The report
called moderate and conscious circles to urge the government
to take measures to curtail the prejudice on the basis
of faith. |
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Monday, April 30, 2012
Waqf e Jadid
1) When was the blessed scheme of Waqf e Jadid started?
The scheme was started in 1957 by Hadhrat Musleh Maud (Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad - may Allah be pleased with him)
2) Who were the first fortunate ones to participate in this blessed scheme?
The scheme was initially only for the Ahmadis of Pakistan.
3) Whom did Hadhrat Musleh Maud (may Allah be pleased with him) first appoint to lead the efforts of Waqf e Jadid?
Hadhrat Khalifa tul Masih IV (Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad - may Allah have mercy on him) was made a member of the scheme and was specifically instructed to focus on the two main objectives of the scheme.
4) What were the two objectives laid out by Hadhrat Musleh Maud (may Allah be pleased with him) for the establishment of this scheme?
Firstly, the moral training and Tabligh (propagation of Islam) among the rural Jama’ats of Pakistan. Secondly he instructed to concentrate on Tabligh to the Hindu community in the Sind province of Pakistan.
5) Other than requiring funds, what did Hadhrat Musleh Maud (may Allah be pleased with him) want from the Jamaat?
At the time of its launch, Hadhrat Khalifatul-Massih II (Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad – ra) not only required funds for the scheme but also wanted those men who had a sound religious knowledge to volunteer their time for the cause of propagation of Islam.
6) What was the state of the Hindu community in Sindh when Hadhrat Musleh Maud (may Allah be pleased with him) established this blessed scheme?
The Hindu community in the Sind province of Pakistan was destitute and was mistreated and exploited by the Muslim landowners. Seeing this, the Christian missions offered them financial help and thus influenced them towards Christianity. Waqf e Jadid carried out the huge task of bringing this Hindu community into Ahmadiyyat and continues to do that even to this day.
7) When was this scheme made worldwide?
This scheme was made world-wide in 1985 by Hadhrat Khalifa tul Masih IV (Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad - may Allah have mercy on him)
8) Why did in Hadhrat Khalifa tul Masih IV (may Allah have mercy on him) extend this scheme to the rest of the world?
This scheme was extended to the whole world so that with the help of everyone’s contributions, in particular of the Jama’ats in Western countries, Waqfe Jadid could be set in motion in India.
9) What was the primary objective laid out by Hadhrat Khalifa tul Masih IV (may Allah have mercy on him) for setting the scheme in motion in India?
Hadhrat Khalifa tul Masih IV (Mirza Tahir Ahmad - may Allah have mercy on him) had expressed grave concern over some anti-Ahmadiyya movement within India at the time and decided to counter it by the implementation of Waqf e Jadid scheme.
10) What is Madrassa-tul-Hifz?
It is an institute located in Rabwah which is responsible for training the preachers (sent to the rural areas of Pakistan) by certifying them with a three year course.
11) What other scheme is helping to expand the Madrassa-tul-Hifz?
With the influx of Waqfeen-e-nau, the school is expanding at a fast rate.
12) What activities are taking place in Africa under the auspices of Waqf-e-Jadid?
New mosques are being built, new Jamaats are being established, new Imams are being trained, people are coming into the fold of Islam-Ahmadiyyat and a heightened awakening is taking place in the hearts and minds of people to make even more sacrifices, monetarily and in many other ways.
13) What country had the highest amount of contributions to the scheme?
Highest amount of contributions of any country came from Pakistan last year (2009).
14) What country had the highest amount of per capita contributions to the scheme?
USA was ranked at number 1 in terms of per capita contributions to the scheme.
15) What place did USA have in terms of total contributions to the scheme?
USA was ranked at number 2 last year (2009) in terms of total contributions to the scheme.
16) In which section of the jamaat did Khalifa tul Masih III (may Allah have mercy on him) specially promote Waqf e Jadid?
Hadhrat Khalifa tul Masih III (Mirza Nasir Ahmad - may Allah have mercy on him) particularly encouraged participation among children.
17) What percentage of the Waqf e Jadid collections do children contribute in Pakistan?
Half of the contributions from Pakistan in 2008 were from children.
18) In what sections of the Jamaat did Hadhrat Khalifa tul Masih V (aba) say that special awareness should be raised?
Hudur (aba) advised that in addition to children special awareness about the scheme should be raised in those who have entered into Bai’at in the last ten years and their participation should be encouraged.
19) What other institution is run in Rabwah through the contributions of Waqf e Jadid?
A free Waqfe Jadid Homeopathy clinic is running in Rabwah.
20) When does the Waqf e Jadid fiscal year start?
The Waqfe Jadid fiscal year starts on January 1st of each year.
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