Jamaat Ul Sahih
Al Islam, Kerala announced the historic
inauguration of the Noor’ul Islam Mosque
at Mathra in the south-Indian
state of Kerala on Friday, July 22, 2011. The inauguration of the
Mosque represents a giant step forward for the nascent Sahih Al Islam Community in Kerala, which came into existence only after October 2010. The Mosque is a 400 sq. feet building, situated on a
modest 20 cents of land (1/5 of an acre of land in Kerala) gifted to the Kerala
Jamaat by the Amir Jamaluddin Sahib and his
respected wife Shareefa Beevi Sahiba.
Interestingly, the
Mosque building itself has a rich history that is inextricably intertwined with
all that is good and bad in the Ahmadiyya Jamaat. If we observe, all the present
members of the Kerala Jamaat originally belonged to the Ahmadiyya Jamaat before
recognizing and accepting the Divine Manifestation in the person of Hadhrat
Khalifatullah Munir Ahmad Azim Sahib (atba) of Mauritius
Ahmadiyya Jamaat
was established in Mathra in February 1988 when Jamaluddin Sahib and three of his friends took Bai’at at the hands of the
late Mirza Waseem Ahmad Sahib (grandson of the Promised Massih (as) and the then
Nazir A’la, Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya, Qadian). They embraced Ahmadiyyat, convinced by the moral superiority of the Ahmadiyya viewpoint on spiritual issues and by witnessing the sublime spirituality of common Ahmadis at the Annual Conference of the Ahmadiyya
Community at Vaniyambalam in Northern Kerala (where they came on a truth-seeking mission). As the newly started Ahmadiyya
Community faced persecution and social boycott from the Sunni Muslims of the
area, President Jamaluddin Sahib made available his own property for the
construction of a centre for the Jamaat.
As he and his
family moved to the capital city in 1991, the Jamaat administration in Mathra moved
to other people and those who came after him thought differently and
disparagingly about his role and contributions to the Jamaat, leading to a
widening rift in relations which manifested itself in different ways. Later, the
officers of the Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya,
Qadian examined the ‘power’ equations within the
Jamaat and felt that internal issues could be resolved by removing the
‘inconvenient’ Jamaluddin Sahib for questioning their administrative excesses
and for daring to seek justice even at the door of the Khalifa who sits above
them as the highest authority in the Jamaat- e- Ahmadiyya.
Just as it happened
in the past in the case of the expulsion of the new Messenger of Allah, the
Fifth Khalifa chose to hear only the official story and Jamaluddin Sahib found
himself outside the Nizam-e-Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya and the Mosque was abandoned.
Troubled as he
was by these instances of injustice and humiliation, expulsion and social
boycott imposed by his own people in the Ahmadiyya Jamaat, Jamaluddin Sahib
kept his patience and made every effort to return to what he believed was the
Jamaat of the Promised Massih (as). At least eight of his applications in a
period of five years seeking to return to the Jamaat was thwarted within the
administrative machinery of the Jamaat. In any case, he never heard from
the Khalifa he always addressed in the letters.
.PNG)
When the 'lords' of
the Jamaat became blind to the anguished cries of a righteous soul, he became
convinced that only a people who have lost all their spiritual moorings can
behave the way the leadership did and prayed fervently for Divine Help in his
spiritual quest. By sheer chance (or was it a
Divine Plan? We believe that not even a leaf moves without the permission of
Allah), Jamaluddin Sahib came to know about the coming of a Prophet/Messenger of Allah in Africa
who teaches Tauhid and corrects doctrinal mistakes of Ahmadis which led to
their present predicament, including deification of their Khulafa and pervasive
injustice and blatant nopitism within the administrative system of the Nizam-e-Jamaat.
The rest is
history.
In a special
message from Mauritius
“Islam is said
to have reached the shores of Kerala during the very lifetime of the Holy
Prophet Muhammad (sa). One of the oldest Mosques, outside of
Indeed you may
not see it now as historical, but others after you shall see it as an
historical occurrence and Mosque. Indeed, your children, and their children and
their children shall profit from the blessings which you have now contributed
to the propagation of Deen-i-Islam. Always attach yourself firmly to Tauhid, never let go of Tauhid…A Mosque built for Allah must be
a pure sanctuary where the believers derive the blessings of Allah, and not
otherwise”…