Additionally, this study analyses the reasons for the persecution of the amc in Pakistan. This study is my attempt to scrutinise why the amc migrated from Qadian (British India) to newly created Pakistan in 1947, despite being aware of hostility from the mainstream Muslim community. This aim was finally fulfilled when the National Assembly adopted a constitutional amendment declaring Ahmadis as non-Muslims. Although the Ahmadis were at the forefront of the creation of Pakistan, the majority Sunni and some Shia clerics demanded their formal exclusion from the Muslim fold. 4 During colonial rule in the subcontinent, the disagreement was just a theological issue, but migration to Pakistan, the newly formed Islamic state in 1947, worsened the controversy, and it ended up as a major constitutional problem. Carr argues in his study The Twenty Years’ Crisis, that ethics are used by the dominant community to fulfil its interest in the well-being of the other community.
It is simply what the classical realist E.H.
This community, especially Islamists 2 and Maulvies, 3 serve as custodians of Islam in order to justify and maintain their dominant positions. 1 The mainstream Muslim community believes it is their ethical right to preserve Islam in its pristine form, and to denounce any new interpretation of the Quran or Hadith. The dominant Muslim community as a whole imposed its view on the minority community in denouncing Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as an imposter Prophet because he had ostensibly violated the finality of the Prophethood of Muhammad. Having been accused of violating the mainstream Muslim doctrine on the finality of the Prophethood, the community faced severe opposition from the other sects. However, the amc claimed its founder as the Messiah of the age and Prophet. Generally, orthodox Muslims, a conglomeration of all the schools of thought, believe in the ‘finality of the Prophethood’, that there shall be no Prophet after the Prophet of Islam. There were very minor disagreements earlier between orthodox Muslims and the newly founded sect, although the issue was aggravated further due to the intervention of religious scholars and politicians for their personal interests.
The schism took a new turn with the advent of a new sect – the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at (Community) ( amc), founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, in 1889. The historical discord between different sects within Islam has its roots in the presumption of superiority of one over another.
New interpretations and insights have always been a conundrum for them. There is a general consensus among Muslim subdivisions that they should adhere to the basic tenets of Islam.
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