Ahmadiyya

Ahmadiyya Muslims , are followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad . They comprise two subsects, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement ( Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-i-Islaman ). There are at least ten million Ahmadi throughout the world, with some counts being more than ten times that high [1] . At the end of the nineteenth century Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian claimed to be the Mujaddid , Promised Messiah, Mahdi and Prophet of the age. (Note that the two subsects of the Ahmadiyya interpret this last claim differently). Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claimed to have fulfilled the prophecy of the return of Jesus . He and his followers claimed that his advent was foretold by Muhammad the prophet of Islam, and also by many other religious scriptures of the world. In 1889 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad laid down the foundation of his community, which was later on given the name of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat. Since its inception, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat's objective has been the revival of Islam. Soon after the death of the founder the movement split into two sects: the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community .The Ahmadiyya Movement insists that it stands in the same relation to Islam in which Christianity stood to Judaism. Ahmadi Muslims' beliefs are alleged to be heretical and outside of Islam by most Sunni and Shiite scholars - mainstream Muslims often refer to Ahmadis using the term Qadiani , a term literally referring to someone belonging to the Qadian region in India, this term however has acquired derogatory connotations over the years. Mainstream Muslims contend that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 's claim of prophethood and messiahhood violates the basic tenets of Islam (namely that Muhammad is the last prophet, and that it is Jesus Christ who returns at the end times in person, and no other). Both Ahmadi Muslims sects support their belief by using an allegorical interpretation of the references in Islamic literature related to the “return of Jesus”. However there is a difference between the two sects as far as finality of prophet hood is concerned, as listed below:

The White Minaret with the Ahmadiyya Flag in Qadian , India . It originated with the life and teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who claimed to have fulfilled the prophecies of the world's reformer during the end times , who was to herald the eschaton as predicted in the traditions of various world religions and bring about the final triumph of Islam as per Islamic prophecy. He claimed that he was the Mujaddid (divine reformer) of the 14th Islamic century , the promised Messiah and Mahdi awaited by Muslims . The adherents of the Ahmadiyya movement are referred to as Ahmadi Muslims or simply Ahmadis. Ahmadi thought emphasizes the belief that Islam is the final dispensation for humanity as revealed to Muhammad and the necessity of restoring to it its true essence and pristine form, which had been lost through the centuries. Ahmadiyya adherents believe that Ahmad appeared in the likeness of Jesus , to end religious wars, condemn bloodshed and reinstitute morality, justice, and peace. They believe that upon divine guidance he divested Islam of fanatical and innovative beliefs and practices by championing what is, in their view, Islam’s true and essential teachings as practised by Muhammad and the early Islamic community. Thus, Ahmadis view themselves as leading the revival and peaceful propagation of Islam. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the movement on 23 March 1889 and termed it the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at, sometimes translated as Ahmadiyya Muslim Community . Since his death, the community has been led by a number of Caliphs and has expanded to over 200 countries and territories of the world. The Ahmadis were among the earliest Muslim communities to arrive in Britain and other Western countries. Currently, the community is led by its Caliph, Mirza Masroor Ahmad , and is officially estimated to number between 10 and 20 million worldwide. The population is almost entirely contained in the single, highly organized and united movement. In this sense there is only one major branch. However, in the early history of the community, a number of Ahmadis broke away over the nature of Ahmad's prophethood and succession and formed the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement which today represents a small fraction of all Ahmadis. Some Ahmadiyya-specific beliefs have been thought of as opposed to contemporary mainstream Islamic thought since the movement's birth, and some Ahmadis have subsequently faced persecution . Most orthodox Muslims have denounced Ahmadis as kafirs or heretics , and mainstream Islam generally considers them to be non-Muslims. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) Valentine, Simon (2008). Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: history, belief, practice . Essential Islam: a comprehensive guide to belief and practice . Truth about Ahmadiyyat, Reflection of all the Prohets . The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy . When Muslims are not Muslims: the Ahmadiyya community and the discourse on heresy in Indonesia .

The White Minaret and the Ahmadiyya Flag in Qadian , India . Ahmadiyya ( UK : / ˌ ɑː m ə ˈ d ɪ ə , ˌ æ m ə ˈ d iː j ə / , US : / ˌ ɑː m ə ˈ d iː ə / ), officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community or the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at ( ; ), is an Islamic revival or messianic movement originating in Punjab, British India , in the late 19th century. It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who claimed to have been divinely appointed as both the Promised Mahdi (Guided One) and Messiah expected by Muslims to appear towards the end times and bring about, by peaceful means, the final triumph of Islam; as well as to embody, in this capacity, the expected eschatological figure of other major religious traditions. Adherents of the Ahmadiyya—a term adopted expressly in reference to Muhammad 's alternative name Aḥmad —are known as Ahmadi Muslims or simply Ahmadis. Ahmadi thought emphasizes the belief that Islam is the final dispensation for humanity as revealed to Muhammad and the necessity of restoring it to its true intent and pristine form, which had been lost through the centuries. Its adherents consider Ahmad to have appeared as the Mahdi—bearing the qualities of Jesus in accordance with their reading of scriptural prophecies—to revitalize Islam and set in motion its moral system that would bring about lasting peace. They believe that upon divine guidance he purged Islam of foreign accretions in belief and practice by championing what is, in their view, Islam's original precepts as practised by Muhammad and the early Muslim community . Ahmadis thus view themselves as leading the propagation and renaissance of Islam. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad established the Community (or Jamāʿat ) on 23 March 1889 by formally accepting allegiance from his supporters. Since his death, the Community has been led by a number of Caliphs and has spread to 210 countries and territories of the world as of 2017 with concentrations in South Asia , West Africa , East Africa , and Indonesia . The Ahmadis have a strong missionary tradition and formed the first Muslim missionary organization to arrive in Britain and other Western countries. Currently, the Community is led by its Caliph, Mirza Masroor Ahmad , and is estimated to number between 10 and 20 million worldwide. The population is almost entirely contained in the single, highly organized and united movement. However, in the early history of the Community, a number of Ahmadis broke away over the nature of Ahmad's prophetic status and succession and formed the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam , which today represents a small fraction of all Ahmadis. Some Ahmadiyya-specific beliefs have been thought of as opposed to current conceptions of Islamic orthodoxy since the movement's birth, and some Ahmadis have subsequently faced persecution . Many Muslims consider Ahmadi Muslims as either kafirs (infidels) or heretics , ( zindīqs ) an animosity sometimes resulting in murder. The term Qādiyānī is often used pejoratively to refer to the movement and is used in Pakistan's official documents. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) "Ahmadiyya" . A Muslim minority Movement in South Asia . Oxford Bibliographies. : Cite journal requires |journal= ( help ) Valentine, Simon (2008). Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: History, belief, practice . Essential Islam: A comprehensive guide to belief and practice . Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh . "Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān's Library: The use of Ḥanbalī literature in 19th century Bhopal". Truth about Ahmadiyyat, Reflection of all the Prophets . From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim minority movement in south Asia . Encyclopedia of Global Religion . Religionen feiern: Feste und Feiertage religiöser Gemeinschaften in Deutschland . "Redefinition of identities, subalterns and political Islam: A case of Majlis i Ahrar in Punjab" . Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan . 46 (2): 188– 189. From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim minority movement in south Asia . Conscience and Coercion: Ahmadi Muslims and orthodoxy in Pakistan . Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: History, belief, practice . "They were the first Muslim organization to send missionaries to the West ..." Gilham, Jamie (2014). Loyal Enemies: British converts to Islam, 1850–1950 . In Agai, B.; et al. Muslims in Interwar Europe: A transcultural historical perspective . In the interwar period the Ahmadiyya occupied a pioneering place as a Muslim missionary movement in Europe; they established mosques, printed missionary publications in a variety of European languages, and attracted many European converts to Islam. World Cultures and World Religions: The coming dialogue . The spirit of their tenets and the militant vigour of their founder have made the Ahmadiyya naturally a group with strong missionary and reforming zeal, both inside the lands of Islam where they are represented and outside. They constitute almost exclusively the "Muslim Missions" in Western countries and elsewhere ... Estimates of around 20 million would be appropriate DeVries, Larry; Baker, Don; Overmyer, Dan (January 2011). Asian Religions in British Columbia . The community currently numbers around 15 million spread around the world Campo, Juan Eduardo (2009). The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy . When Muslims are not Muslims: The Ahmadiyya community and the discourse on heresy in Indonesia . Santa Barbara, California: University of California . Conscience and Coercion: Ahmadis and Orthodoxy in Pakistan .

Messianic and revivalist movement within Islam "Ahmadi" redirects here. The White Minaret and the Ahmadiyya flag in Qadian , India . Ahmadiyya ( / ˌ ɑː m ə ˈ d iː ə / , also UK : /- ˈ d iː j ə / ), officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community or the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at ( AMJ , ; ), is an Islamic revival or messianic movement originating in Punjab, British India , in the late 19th century. It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who claimed to have been divinely appointed as both the Promised Mahdi (Guided One) and Messiah expected by Muslims to appear towards the end times and bring about, by peaceful means, the final triumph of Islam; as well as to embody, in this capacity, the expected eschatological figure of other major religious traditions. Adherents of the Ahmadiyya—a term adopted expressly in reference to Muhammad 's alternative name Aḥmad —are known as Ahmadi Muslims or simply Ahmadis. Ahmadi thought emphasizes the belief that Islam is the final dispensation for humanity as revealed to Muhammad and the necessity of restoring it to its true intent and pristine form, which had been lost through the centuries. Its adherents consider Ahmad to have appeared as the Mahdi—bearing the qualities of Jesus in accordance with their reading of scriptural prophecies—to revitalize Islam and set in motion its moral system that would bring about lasting peace. They believe that upon divine guidance he purged Islam of foreign accretions in belief and practice by championing what is, in their view, Islam's original precepts as practised by Muhammad and the early Muslim community . Ahmadis thus view themselves as leading the propagation and renaissance of Islam. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad established the Community (or Jamāʿat ) on 23 March 1889 by formally accepting allegiance from his supporters. Since his death, the Community has been led by a succession of Caliphs . By 2017 it had spread to 210 countries and territories of the world with concentrations in South Asia , West Africa , East Africa , and Indonesia . The Ahmadis have a strong missionary tradition, having formed the first Muslim missionary organization to arrive in Britain and other Western countries. Currently, the community is led by its caliph, Mirza Masroor Ahmad , and is estimated to number between 10 and 20 million worldwide. The movement is almost entirely a single, highly organized group. However, in the early history of the community, some Ahmadis dissented over the nature of Ahmad's prophetic status and succession. They formed the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement , which has since dwindled to a small fraction of all Ahmadis. Ahmadiyya's recognition of Ahmad as a prophet has been characterized as heretical by mainstream Muslims, who believe that Muhammad was the final prophet , and the Ahmadi movement has faced non-recognition and persecution in many parts of the world. Some Sunni Muslims pejoratively use the term Qādiyānī to refer to the movement. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) "Ahmadiyya" . A Muslim minority Movement in South Asia . Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: History, belief, practice . Essential Islam: A comprehensive guide to belief and practice . Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh . "Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān's Library: The use of Ḥanbalī literature in 19th century Bhopal". Truth about Ahmadiyyat, Reflection of all the Prophets . From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim minority movement in south Asia . Encyclopedia of Global Religion . Religionen feiern: Feste und Feiertage religiöser Gemeinschaften in Deutschland . "Redefinition of identities, subalterns and political Islam: A case of Majlis i Ahrar in Punjab" . Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan . 46 (2): 188– 189. From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim minority movement in south Asia . Conscience and Coercion: Ahmadi Muslims and orthodoxy in Pakistan . Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: History, belief, practice . "They were the first Muslim organization to send missionaries to the West ..." Gilham, Jamie (2014). Loyal Enemies: British converts to Islam, 1850–1950 . In Agai, B.; et al. Muslims in Interwar Europe: A transcultural historical perspective . In the interwar period the Ahmadiyya occupied a pioneering place as a Muslim missionary movement in Europe; they established mosques, printed missionary publications in a variety of European languages, and attracted many European converts to Islam. World Cultures and World Religions: The coming dialogue . The spirit of their tenets and the militant vigour of their founder have made the Ahmadiyya naturally a group with strong missionary and reforming zeal, both inside the lands of Islam where they are represented and outside. They constitute almost exclusively the "Muslim Missions" in Western countries and elsewhere ... Multiple sources: Breach of Faith . Estimates of around 20 million would be appropriate DeVries, Larry; Baker, Don; Overmyer, Dan (January 2011). Asian Religions in British Columbia . The community currently numbers around 15 million spread around the world Campo, Juan Eduardo (2009). The total size of the Ahmadiyya community in 2001 was estimated to be more than 10 million "Ahmadiyya Muslims" . The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy . Conscience and Coercion: Ahmadis and Orthodoxy in Pakistan .

Ahmadiyya , officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at ( AMJ ), is an Islamic messianic movement originating in British India in the late 19th century. It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who said he had been divinely appointed as both the Promised Mahdi (Guided One) and Messiah expected by Muslims to appear towards the end times and bring about, by peaceful means, the final triumph of Islam; as well as to embody, in this capacity, the expected eschatological figure of other major religious traditions. Adherents of the Ahmadiyya—a term adopted expressly in reference to Muhammad 's alternative name Ahmad — are known as Ahmadi Muslims or simply Ahmadis. Ahmadi thought emphasizes the belief that Islam is the final dispensation for humanity as revealed to Muhammad and the necessity of restoring it to its true intent and pristine form, which had been lost through the centuries. Its adherents consider Ahmad to have appeared as the Mahdi—bearing the qualities of Jesus in accordance with their reading of scriptural prophecies—to revitalize Islam and set in motion its moral system that would bring about lasting peace. They believe that upon divine guidance he purged Islam of foreign accretions in belief and practice by championing what is, in their view, Islam's original precepts as practised by Muhammad and the early Muslim community . Ahmadis thus view themselves as leading the propagation and renaissance of Islam. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad established the Community (or Jamāʿat ) on 23 March 1889 by formally accepting allegiance from his supporters. Since his death, the Community has been led by a succession of Caliphs . By 2017 it had spread to 210 countries and territories of the world with concentrations in South Asia , West Africa , East Africa , and Indonesia . The Ahmadis have a strong missionary tradition, having formed the first Muslim missionary organization to arrive in Britain and other Western countries. Currently, the community is led by its caliph, Mirza Masroor Ahmad , and is estimated to number between 10 and 20 million worldwide. The movement is almost entirely a single, highly organized group. However, in the early history of the community, some Ahmadis dissented over the nature of Ahmad's prophetic status and succession. They formed the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement , which has since dwindled to a small fraction of all Ahmadis. Ahmadiyya's recognition of Ahmad as a prophet has been characterized as heretical by mainstream Muslims, who believe that Muhammad was the final prophet , and the Ahmadi movement has faced non-recognition and persecution in many parts of the world. Some Muslims pejoratively use the term Qādiyānī to refer to the movement. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) "Ahmadiyya" . Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: History, belief, practice . Essential Islam: A comprehensive guide to belief and practice . Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh . "Screening Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān's Library: The use of Ḥanbalī literature in 19th century Bhopal". Truth about Ahmadiyyat, Reflection of all the Prophets . From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim minority movement in south Asia . Encyclopedia of Global Religion . Religionen feiern: Feste und Feiertage religiöser Gemeinschaften in Deutschland . "Redefinition of identities, subalterns and political Islam: A case of Majlis i Ahrar in Punjab" . Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan . 46 (2): 188– 189. From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim minority movement in south Asia . Conscience and Coercion: Ahmadi Muslims and orthodoxy in Pakistan . Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: History, belief, practice . "They were the first Muslim organization to send missionaries to the West ..." Gilham, Jamie (2014). Loyal Enemies: British converts to Islam, 1850–1950 . In Agai, B.; et al. Muslims in Interwar Europe: A transcultural historical perspective . In the interwar period the Ahmadiyya occupied a pioneering place as a Muslim missionary movement in Europe; they established mosques, printed missionary publications in a variety of European languages, and attracted many European converts to Islam. World Cultures and World Religions: The coming dialogue . The spirit of their tenets and the militant vigour of their founder have made the Ahmadiyya naturally a group with strong missionary and reforming zeal, both inside the lands of Islam where they are represented and outside. They constitute almost exclusively the "Muslim Missions" in Western countries and elsewhere ... Multiple sources: Breach of Faith . Estimates of around 20 million would be appropriate DeVries, Larry; Baker, Don; Overmyer, Dan (January 2011). Asian Religions in British Columbia . The community currently numbers around 15 million spread around the world Campo, Juan Eduardo (2009). The total size of the Ahmadiyya community in 2001 was estimated to be more than 10 million "Ahmadiyya Muslims" . The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy . Conscience and Coercion: Ahmadis and Orthodoxy in Pakistan . There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).