O
believers! Avoid many suspicions, [for] indeed, some suspicions are
sinful. And do not spy, nor backbite one another. Would any of you
like to eat the flesh of their dead brother? You would despise that!
And fear Allah. Surely Allah is much prone to accept repentance, is
Most Compassionate.
(Al-Hujurat 49: 13)
I
have chosen to address you today again – like in the past I made
several sermons on this subject as well as on Surah Al-Hujurat
– on “Ghibbat”.
This
is another explanation that I am putting before you, because this
Surah
is a very important Surah
wherein Allah (swt) is calling the attention of the community of
believers against “Ghibbat”.
Like you know, “Ghibbat”
means backbiting,
talking against a person, putting him in a bad light behind his back
[i.e. when he is not present]. And Allah has condemned such practice
in severe words and if the people understand them well, then they
would never dare to backbite anybody. And the way in which Allah
explains this subject profoundly, we get an idea why people get
attracted to such a detestable practice.
Ghibbat”
is such a vice which attracts you towards it and you find yourselves
powerless [and get tempted to indulge in it]. When you read the
Chapter Al-Hujurat profoundly, you are frightened by its contents
[i.e. by what Allah has warned the believers against].
When I read
and ponder profoundly over this chapter, I recall how the Jamaat
Ahmadiyya with its ex-so-called Amir Amine Jowaheer and his Managing
Committee at that time manifested such jealousy, doubts, and
suspicions which developed into a great hatred towards me and this
hatred went on to become bigger and bigger and it was spread to other
people [even the small children] and thus their hearts became dark
with these vices and this darkness was reflected on their faces. They
used foul languages and detestable actions and sanctions against me.
And basing himself on the report of the ex-so-called Amir in 2000,
the late fourth Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Movement – without
listening to my version – took sanctions and on top of that sent
curses on us and used other detestable and severe words against us.
Indeed, he acted without Taqwa
(righteousness/ piety).
And
all these happened only because I cited some revelations which Allah
had bestowed upon me. He sent such a curse as if he is making a
Mubahila
(duel of prayer) with me. As for the ex-so-called Amir, he took
himself as a great hero and delivered Friday Sermons over Friday
Sermons, eating our flesh [i.e. backbiting us] with appetite. There
was so much backbiting, beginning the year 2001 and beyond. And such
backbiting took place not only on Fridays in the sermons, but also in
meetings in all branches, and such programmes as the Promised Messiah
(Massih Ma’ud)
Day, the Promised Reformer (Musleh
Ma’ud) Day and
Caliphate (Khilafat)
Day. All these “Days” became Munir Azim Day. More talks on Munir
Azim in the Ijtema of Khuddam, Ansar and the Jalsa Salana!
In
a nutshell, there was no programme which was held in which there was
not the mention of Munir Azim and his “so-called
revelations”.
This was for them indeed a most important topic to dwell on, for
example, how Munir Azim was a rebel etc. And the so-called ex-Amir
reached such an abased level that he along with his Mullahs stated
that the caliphate was in danger. They created so much hatred in the
hearts of the Ahmadis (men, women and even children) till they
exceeded all limits in the field of religion. They [i.e. the
hate-filled people among them] began the slogan “Khilafat
is our life”;
and, intoxicated with the poison that they were fed, they were ready
to declare that they shall fall upon [i.e. kill] those who rebel
against the caliph. And that ex-so-called Amir received many
felicitations from the members of the Jamaat [i.e. for having
‘succeeded’
in ‘saving’
the caliphate].
So,
with all the backbiting and rumours which one made with another, a
caliph believed in those palavers without listening to me. So, now
see where the Jamaat Ahmadiyya is going… to its lost! The light of
Allah (Nur-e-Ilaahi)
has disappeared in the Jamaat of the Promised Messiah (as). I must
say that 90% of the Ahmadis have had this hatred against us, and this
hatred blackened their hearts and their attitude against us became
bad and not good to see at all, and indeed this darkness has stuck in
their hearts as if they are on a black stone in complete darkness.
So,
look at the Jamaat Ahmadiyya at national and international level,
they no more uphold the teachings of Islam, not even the teachings of
the Promised Messiah (as). They made their caliph become their idol
and they have trampled the divine teachings. What remains is only
backbiting and hatred.
On
the other hand, the people who have Taqwa
(fear of Allah) in their hearts, they hold within them a firm belief
on the unity of Allah, and they remove themselves from these
Khalifa/idol-worshipping,
backbiting, jealousy, etc. They prefer to leave this Jamaat of
dynasty, family-feeling, a Jamaat where there are the same people at
the head all the time, and there is the same [unislamic] instructions
such as: put boycott on us, have hatred for us, spread false rumours
– backbite and suspect us. So, the Muttaqi
[Muttaqun]
see that all these are not the teachings of Allah. They leave that
circle so that they may not fall into sin.