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Answers to Everyday Issues Part XXXVIII
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THE WEEKLY
www.alhakam.org AL HAKAM | Friday 19 August 2022 | Issue CCXXXI Ahmadiyya Archive & Research Centre (ARC), 22 Deer Park Road, London, SW19 3TL, UK info@alhakam.org | ISSN 2754-7388
Afghanistan’s bleak situation precedes the Taliban – Recalling the Promised Messiah’s warnings
It’s been a year since the US-led occupation of Afghanistan ended and the world saw the Taliban sweep across the country. A dismal show of Western failure was broadcast to the world on television as the Taliban seized American equipment left behind and started controlling the streets of Kabul once again. The Western world’s attempt to “reform” Afghanistan proved to be futile and now Afghans have to face severe oppression and immensely un-Islamic laws that the Taliban continue to impose. It seems Afghanistan needs a miracle for any chance of improvement. The occupation of Afghanistan (and other Muslim countries) in the name of eradicating terrorism has only produced more extremists. Carpet bombing and “collateral damage” in the shape of innocent lives have created vicious cycles where organisations like Al Qaeda have enough
convincing power to continue their recruitment and grow. This is coupled with the continuous misrepresentation of Islamic teachings by extremists and so-called scholars, including a false picture of jihad – another sword’s edge in the perpetuation of extremists that countries like Afghanistan are witnessing. Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiahas, during the colonial era, warned of the influence of Western propaganda coupled with the inaccurate preaching of Islamic concepts by scholars and how this would continue to destroy lands, in particular Afghanistan. In his monumental treatise, The British Government and Jihad, Hazrat Ahmadas wrote: “It should be remembered that today’s Islamic scholars (who are called maulavis) completely misunderstand jihad and misrepresent it to the general public. The
public’s violent instincts are inflamed as a result and they are stripped of all noble human virtues. This is in fact what has happened […]. “O Muslim scholars and maulavis! Listen to me. I tell you truly that this is not the time for jihad. Do not disobey God’s Holy Prophet. “At this point, I must with great regret say that although ignorant maulavis have instructed the ordinary public in plunder and killing by calling these actions jihad, Christian clerics have also done something similar. They have, in Urdu, Pashto and other languages, produced thousands of publications, journals and flyers alleging that Islam was spread by the sword. This literature has been distributed by them in India, Punjab and the Frontier Region, wrongly claims that Islam is synonymous with violence. The people’s penchant for violence has increased as a result of the combined testimony of the maulavis and Christian clerics. The dangerous lies of the Christian clerics create unrest and rebellion and, in my view, it is essential that our government prohibit them.” (The British Government and Jihad, pp. 10-11) These warnings fell on deaf ears and ever since, the situation in Afghanistan has only got worse – whether the attempts of invasion by the Soviet Union and the subsequent creation of the “Mujahideen” or the invasion of the USA and allied forces for the better part of twenty years. Western forces have not acted on justice and neither have so-called “Islamic” extremist organisations like the Taliban upheld and represented the unadulterated teachings of Islam – whether in Afghanistan or elsewhere.
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Hadith-e-Rasul – Sayings of the Holy Prophet Muhammadsa
Faith in Allah and His Messengersa
ََ َ ُ َ َ ّ ٰ َّ ّٰ ُ �ُ �� أ ّن َر ُﺳﻮل ا�� ِ� َﺻﻠﻰ ا،ﻋ ْﻦ أ�ِ� ﻫ َﺮﻳْ َﺮة َ َ ُ َ ْ َ َ ْ َ ُّ َ َ ُ َ َّ َ َ ْ َ َ �ل أﻓﻀﻞ ﻗﺎل ِ �����ﻠﻴ ِﻪ وﺳﻠﻢ ﺳ ِ�ﻞ أى ا ّٰ ُ َ �ِ ِ �ﺎن ﺑِﺎ�� ِ� َو َر ُﺳﻮ ا��ﻳﻤ ِ Hazrat Abu Hurairahra narrates that the Holy Prophetsa was asked: “Which deed is best?” He replied, “Faith in Allah and His Messengersa.” (Sunan al-Nasa’i, Kitab al-Iman wa shara’i‘ihi, Hadith 4985)
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas, In His Own Words
A dream and its interpretation A sign that was manifested to revive and strengthen our faith was that [one] afternoon [during the week ending on 10 July 1899], the aforementioned letter [addressed to the Promised Messiahas informing him of a shrine of Yuz Asaf] arrived unexpectedly, while on that same morning, the Promised Messiahas saw a dream. The Promised Messiahas saw that Her Majesty the Queen, Empress of India, may Allah preserve her, was seated in the home of the Promised Messiahas. In the dream, His Holinessas addressed my humble self (Abdul-Karim), as I was seated next to him, and said: “Her Majesty the Queen has most graciously come to my house and has remained here for two days. Gratitude ought to be offered to her.” The interpretation of this dream Continued on page 2