Major premise, a mazhab is a cultural manifestation of a way of life i.e., deen. Deen has certain principles without any manifestation that is rendered useless. When we speak about “La Iqra ha fid Din.” Deen is to be distinguished in this form as completely a bigger umbrella under which “Sharia” (the law), “Fiqh” (the understanding and school of thought), and “Mazhab” (the customary practices) comes. For being a Muslim or follower of Islam, you should have a basic belief that Allah is God, and Muhammad peace be upon him is his last prophet, and no other prophet will come after him. If anyone differs from this belief, then he is rejecting Islam’s basic belief and not able to say him as part of Islam, but he can label himself any believer other than Muslim.
The root of the dispute between Muslims and the Ahmedi community
They deceive the western public claiming them true Muslims while they believe in a new Messenger after Prophet Muhammad p.b.u.h. That’s why Pakistanis demand them to declare themselves non-Muslims first to claim minority rights. For those who claim that the Ahmedis consider themselves as minorities and a different religion, this Answers it all:
No compulsion in this context means that we shouldn’t force people to convert into the fold of Islam. Not that you portray what you are not. And legislation was passed after discussions with Ahmadi’s leaders at that time. Remember, all legislation to declare Ahmedis as non-muslims including 295c happened at the time of Z.A Bhutto who despite being a secular man was forced to respond to the mass killing of Nishtar College students by Ahmedis as these students passed by the Rabwah near Chinniot.
Do you know how it was decided that Ahmadis are non-Muslims?
The decision was made in the parliament and Qadianis was given a chance to debate with Muslim scholars. The question that was asked to Ahmedi elders “Do you consider other Muslims who don’t believe in Mirza Ghulam to be non-Muslims?”… the response was “yes we do believe that those who don’t believe in him are kafirs”. For the same reasoning, just like for Ahmadis if other Muslims are non-Muslims, for them they too are.
