Mirza of Qadian and his abolition of Jihad

 

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

والصلاة والسلام على رسوله الامين

In the Name of Allah, the Rahman, the Merciful

The Antichrist and false prophet Mirza Ghulam Ahmad had an article published for the English periodical of his sect called the Review of Religions entitled “A Proposal for the Utter Extinction of Jehad” (January 1903)

In this despicable article, which is full of hypocrisy and hatred for the Muslims while singing the praises of the unbelieving British imperialist government in India, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad appealed to the British government to assist him and like-minded “theologians” in crafting a book that would refute the doctrine of Jihad! It is clear from this Mirza Ghulam Ahmad denied the doctrine of Jihad which is manifestly established in the Holy Quran, the Sirah and Sunnah of the Holy Prophet, sall Allahu alaihi wasallam, his Hadith, and the consensus of the Muslim Ummah. This despite Mirza claiming he was not sent by God to abrogate or amend the Shari’ah and teachings of Prophet Muhammad, sall Allahu alaihi wasallam, but rather to uphold the Shari’ah. Hence, Allah says,

اَلَّذِیۡنَ اٰمَنُوۡا یُقَاتِلُوۡنَ فِیۡ سَبِیۡلِ اللّٰہِ ۚ وَالَّذِیۡنَ کَفَرُوۡا یُقَاتِلُوۡنَ فِیۡ سَبِیۡلِ الطَّاغُوۡتِ فَقَاتِلُوۡۤا اَوۡلِیَآءَ الشَّیۡطٰنِ

Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah and those who disbelieve fight in the cause of the Taghut. So fight the friends of Satan

(4:76)

فَقَاتِلُوا أَئِمَّةَ الْكُفْرِ

So fight the leaders of unbelief

(9:12)

قَاتِلُوا الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَلَا بِالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ وَلَا يُحَرِّمُونَ مَا حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ وَلَا يَدِينُونَ دِينَ الْحَقِّ مِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ حَتَّىٰ يُعْطُوا الْجِزْيَةَ عَن يَدٍ وَهُمْ صَاغِرُونَ

Fight those who do not believe in Allah and in the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Apostle forbade, nor follow the Religion of Truth from those who were given the Scripture until they give the Jizyah willingly while they are subdued

(9:29)

وَقَاتِلُوا الْمُشْرِكِينَ كَافَّةً كَمَا يُقَاتِلُونَكُمْ كَافَّةً

And fight the polytheists collectively as they fight you collectively

(9:36)

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا قَاتِلُوا الَّذِينَ يَلُونَكُم مِّنَ الْكُفَّارِ وَلْيَجِدُوا فِيكُمْ غِلْظَةً

O you who believe! Fight those adjacent to you of the unbelievers and let them find in you harshness

(9:123)

As for the permanence of the institution and doctrine of armed Jihad, my master the Holy Prophet Muhammad, sall Allahu alaihi wasallam, said,

لاَ تَزَالُ طَائِفَةٌ مِنْ أُمَّتِي يُقَاتِلُونَ عَلَى الْحَقِّ ظَاهِرِينَ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ

A faction of my Ummah will not cease to fight upon the Truth, triumphant, until the Day of Resurrection

(Sahih Muslim)

The Antichrist Mirza of Qadian put forward the narrative that the Afghan tribesmen, fired with zeal by the “Mullas”, were a headache for the British government and that it was necessary to have a book written that would be distributed among them and other sections of the Muslim community that would demolish the doctrine of Jihad: “the Government is so often involved in difficulties on account of the savage frontier tribes who profess the religion of Islam”, “The mischief is caused by the frontier Mullas who are constantly representing Jehad with the unbelievers as the first duty of all true Muhammadans and as the key of paradise”, “the evil which has thus been produced by the Mullas, for as the originators of the evil are the Muhammadan theologians” (p.21)

These quotations reveal that, like virtually all other heretics, hypocrites and enemies of Islam, Mirza of Qadian bore venomous enmity toward the Sunni Ulama, and those populations that are strongly under their influence like the Afghans or Pashtuns. It is not a coincidence that even today the bitterest denouncers of the traditional Ulama, whom they rudely refer to as “Mullas”, are the liberals, secularists, leftists, feminists, modernists, reformists and all manner of heretics (zanadiqah and mulhidin). These are following in the footsteps of the cursed false prophet Mirza of Qadian, who openly called for the publication and wide distribution of a book repudiating Jihad, “What I lay stress upon is the publication of a book containing forcible and unequivocal refutation of the principles of Jehad”, “So long as the doctrine of Jehad is not uprooted, the Muhammadans cannot prosper”, “To abolish Jehad, the doctrine must first be disowned which is the central idea in it” (pp.22-23)

Mirza of Qadian then shamelessly lied upon the Holy Quran, claiming that it says that there shall come a “Muhammadan” Messiah, a separate person from the original Israelite Messiah (Jesus), in the fourteenth century after the Prophet Muhammad, sall Allahu alaihi wasallam, and at the end of the sixth millennium after Adam, “in the fourteenth century after the flight of the Holy Prophet, there shall appear among the Muhammadans one who, like Jesus Christ, shall not resort to Jehad or the sword”, “It further appears from the Holy Quran that the last Messiah who shall preach the Word of God after the manner of the first Messiah, shall be born at the end of the sixth thousand from Adam. These are the prophecies in the Holy Quran with regard to the advent of a Messiah”, “The traditions which relate the advent of a bloody Mahdi are the fabrications of later ages. The Holy Quran speaks only of two Messiahs, the Israelite Messiah and the Muhammadan Messiah” (pp.24-25)

The truth is nowhere in the entire Quran is there any such prophecy that a Muhammadan Messiah shall appear in the fourteenth century after the Prophet Muhammad, or in the sixth millennium after Adam!

لَّعۡنَتَ اللّٰہِ عَلَی الۡکٰذِبِیۡنَ

Curse of Allah upon the liars!

(3:61)

As for Mirza’s cunning deception and satanic argument that the orthodox Islamic expectation of a Mahdi and Messiah who shall cause bloodshed and enact violence against their enemies, he claimed that as Jesus was the Messiah but did not come with the sword so too was the Muhammadan Messiah meant not to wield a sword but solely rely on moral teachings and heavenly signs to spread Islam. But this is a common misconception, spread mostly by the liberal and reformed Christian Church, that Jesus was entirely dedicated to and taught absolute nonviolence. It is true that Jesus, unlike the Jewish Zealots and false Messiahs (Simon bar Kokhba), did not raise the sword or revolt against Rome. Yet the Bible teaches that at his second advent, Jesus will come in glory and shall use the sword against the unbelievers, “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God” (Revelation 19:11-15), “And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh” (Revelation 19:19-21)

The coming of Jesus, a warrior on a white horse with an army, and the slaying of the remnant by Jesus’s sword after the casting of the Beast and his false prophet into Hell, is quite similar to the Hadith in which the Prophet Muhammad, sall Allahu alaihi wasallam, said that after Jesus slays the Dajjal, his Muslim followers shall totally exterminate the Jewish army and followers of the Dajjal:

قَالَ عِيسَى عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ افْتَحُوا الْبَابَ‏ فَيُفْتَحُ وَوَرَاءَهُ الدَّجَّالُ مَعَهُ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفِ يَهُودِيٍّ كُلُّهُمْ ذُو سَيْفٍ مُحَلًّى وَسَاجٍ فَإِذَا نَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ الدَّجَّالُ ذَابَ كَمَا يَذُوبُ الْمِلْحُ فِي الْمَاءِ وَيَنْطَلِقُ هَارِبًا وَيَقُولُ عِيسَى عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ إِنَّ لِي فِيكَ ضَرْبَةً لَنْ تَسْبِقَنِي بِهَا‏ فَيُدْرِكُهُ عِنْدَ بَابِ اللُّدِّ الشَّرْقِيِّ فَيَقْتُلُهُ فَيَهْزِمُ اللَّهُ الْيَهُودَ فَلاَ يَبْقَى شَىْءٌ مِمَّا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ يَتَوَارَى بِهِ يَهُودِيٌّ إِلاَّ أَنْطَقَ اللَّهُ ذَلِكَ الشَّىْءَ لاَ حَجَرَ وَلاَ شَجَرَ وَلاَ حَائِطَ وَلاَ دَابَّةَ إِلاَّ الْغَرْقَدَةَ فَإِنَّهَا مِنْ شَجَرِهِمْ لاَ تَنْطِقُ إِلاَّ قَالَ يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ الْمُسْلِمَ هَذَا يَهُودِيٌّ فَتَعَالَ اقْتُلْهُ‏

Jesus, peace be upon him, said, “Open the gate.” So it is opened, and behind it is the Dajjal, with seventy thousand Jews, all of them with decorated swords and a shawl. When the Dajjal looks at him, he will dissolve as salt dissolves in water and run away. Jesus, peace be upon him, will say, “I have a single blow against you that you will not be able to escape.” So he will catch up with him at the eastern gate of Lod and kill him. Then Allah will defeat the Jews, and nothing will remain of what Allah has created that a Jew can hide behind, except that Allah will make that thing speak. There will be no stone, no tree, no wall, and no creature except the Gharqad, for it is one of their trees that does not speak except that it will say, “O Muslim servant of Allah, this is a Jew, so come and kill him.” (Sunan Ibn Majah)

Yet the Antichrist Mirza not only considered this and Hadith like it “fabrications of later ages” he predicted that any attempt at Jihad will prove futile and end in failure, “I have not the least hesitation in declaring that in now resorting to Jehad they go against the will of God and their attempts must surely fail”, “Whoever shall take up the sword now under the pretence of religion and the cloak of piety, whether he styles himself the Mahdi or a Mulla, shall meet with sure disgrace for he opposes the eternal decree of God” (p.26)

What can be said about this other than it is yet another lie of the false prophet. History has witnessed the victory of the Mujahidin in Afghanistan when they drove out and humiliated the Soviet invasion, and again when the Taliban emerged triumphant against all the might of the United States and her allies in NATO after two decades of bloody conflict!

Finally, Mirza confessed that he is “the founder of a new sect” (p.28)

and that is sufficient to reject him, for the making of new sects and splitting off from the Jama’ah of the Muslims is severely condemned by Allah in the Quran,

اِنَّ الَّذِیۡنَ فَرَّقُوۡا دِیۡنَہُمۡ وَکَانُوۡا شِیَعًا لَّسۡتَ مِنۡہُمۡ فِیۡ شَیۡءٍ

Verily, those who split up their Religion and become sects, you [O My beloved Prophet] have nothing to do with them!

(6:159)

That Mirza acknowledged his sect is “new” and not the original Islam brought by the Prophet and implemented by his Sahabah is proof that he and his sect are false, doomed for Hell.