Allah said:
“And if anyone of them dies, never pray for him
(on his funeral), nor stand by his grave
(for his burial).”
(Quran: Taubah 9:84)
THE QADIYANI FUNERAL
By
Maulana
Muhammad Yusuf Ludhianvi
CONTENTS
·
The qadiyani Funeral
·
Preface: Questions
·
The Answer
·
Introductory remarks
·
The heretic beliefs of
the mirzais
·
Answer to the first
Question
·
Answer to the Second
Question
·
Answer to the Third
Question
THE
QADIYANI FUNERAL
Authentic
religious rulings (Fatawa) issued in the light of the Islamic
QUESTIONS
1. On
the death of Dr. Muhammad Saeed, a mirzai of Village Datah, Dist. Mansahra, the
Muslims of Datah offered his funeral prayer under a Muslim Imam. Thereafter the
qadiyanis held a second funeral prayer for the said deceased person. What is
the injunction of the
2. Muslim
girls are living in qadiyani households as wives. Their Muslim parents are
maintaining son/father-in-law relations with these qadiyanis. Will the children
born from such wedlocks be regarded as legitimate or illegitimate children in
the light of the
3. The
Muslim communities in general do not treat the qadiyanis like other Kafirs
(infidels); they treat them like Muslims. They freely mix, eat and drink with
the qadiyanis and participate in their joys and sorrows and bid them Assalamu
alaykum (peace on you), when they meet one another. Likewise, they invite
them to their funeral and marriage feasts and take part in Fatihas. Are they
(the Muslims) accountable for such acts and do they remain as Muslims in the
light of the
Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatm-e-Nubuwwat.
District Mansahra.
THE
ANSWERs
Before
stating the answers, I mention a few points by way of introductory remarks.
First,
if there is anyone who holds beliefs of infidelity and yet
claims to be a Muslim and presents his beliefs of infidelity in the name of
Islam, by placing wrong interpretations on the texts of the Shari‘at, he is
called a Zindeeq. In the chapter on “Zindeeq” (The Apostate), Allama Shami
writes:
“....because a Zindeeq camouflages his
infidelity and desires to popularise his false beliefs and presents them in an
apparently plausible form, this is what is called camouflaging infidelity.”
(Shami, Vol. 4, p. 246, New
Edition)
In
Musawwa, an Arabic commentary on Muwatta, Imamul Hind, Shah
Waliullah Muhaddith Dehlavi writes:
“It
may be explained that a person who is opposed to the true Faith and does not
believe in Islam, nor does he acknowledge the religion of Islam, either
outwardly or inwardly, is called a Kafir. If he believes in the Faith only
verbally, but offers such interpretations of some fundamentals of the Faith as
contradict the views of the Sahabah, the Tabi‘een and the consensus of the
Ummah, then such a person is called a Zindeeq.”
By way of explaining the difference
between a correct interpretation and a wrong interpretation, Shah Waliullah
further writes:
“Moreover, there are two kinds of
interpretations: One that does not contravene a decision that stands finally
established under the authority of the Qur’an and the Sunnah; the other one is
that interpretation which contravenes a decision that stands proved under a
finally established evidence (based on the Qur’an and/or the Sunnah). Such an
interpretation is Zandaqah.”
Citing
examples of interpretations that involve Zandaqah, Shah Waliullah further
writes:
“... or some person says that although the noble
Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) is undoubtedly the last of the Prophets,
yet this only means that after him none will be given the name of a Prophet,
but the concept of prophethood — viz., the sending down by Allah of some person
who must be obeyed as a matter of obligation and who has been protected from
persevering in sins and faults — continues in the Ummah even after the noble
Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) then such a person is a Zindeeq.” (Musawwa, Vol. 2, p. 130)
In
short, one is called a Zindeeq who presents his beliefs of infidelity in the
garb of Islam, interprets the Qur’an and the Sunnah in a way that is contrary
to the finally confirmed Islamic beliefs handed down through uninterrupted
authority.
Secondly:
a Zindeeq falls within the purview of an apostate. In one respect a Zindeeq is
worse than an apostate, because if by expressing repentance, an apostate
re-embraces Islam, there is consensus of opinion that his repentance is
acceptable, but opinions differ about the acceptability or the unacceptability
of the repentance of a Zindeeq.
It
occurs in Durr-i-Mukhtar:
“...
In the same way the repentance of a person who becomes a Kafir on account of
his Zandaqah is not acceptable. He has been described in Fathul Qadeer as
Zahirul Mazhab (professing the Faith only outwardly), but the Fatwa given in
the book of Fatawa Qazi Khan in the chapter “Al-Hazr” lays down: If a
magician or a Zindeeq, who is well-known and preaches (his beliefs), is
arrested before expressing repentance and repents after his arrest, his
repentance is not acceptable. He shall be executed. On the other hand, if he
has expressed repentance before arrest, his repentance will be accepted.
(Al-Shami, Vol. 4, p.241, New
Edition)
It
occurs in Bahrur Ra’iq:
“In
the case of Zahirul-Mazhab (outward profession of faith), the repentance of a
Zindeeq is not acceptable — Zindeeq being a person who follows no religion. It
is mentioned in Fatawa Qazi Khan: If a Zindeeq, before being arrested, confesses
willingly, that he is a Zindeeq and then expresses repentance therefor, his
repentance will be acceptable; but if he expresses repentance after his arrest,
then his repentance will not be accepted and he will be executed.” (Bahrur Raiq, Vol. 5, p. 136)
Thirdly: That
the qadiyanis are Zindeeq is quite obvious, because their beliefs are totally
opposed to the tenets of Islam. By placing wrong interpretations on the texts
of the Qur’an and the Sunnah, they try to delude the ignorant into the belief
that they themselves (qadiyanis) are staunch, true Muslims and besides them the
entire Muslim Ummah is misguided, Kafir and faithless. This is according to
what the late mirza mahmud, the second Head of the qadiyanis, has written:-
“All
Muslims who did not swear allegiance to the promised Masih (i.e. mirza) are
Kafirs (infidels) and out of the pale of Islam, even if they may not have heard
the name of the promised Masih.”
(Ai-eena-i-Sadaqat, p. 35)
The
Heretic Beliefs of the mirzais
1. It
is the finally confirmed belief of Islam that the noble Prophet (Sallallaho
Alaihe Wassallam) is the last of the
Prophets, and after him none can rise to the status of prophethood. On the
contrary, not only do the qadiyanis deny this belief, but they also consider
that without the prophethood of mirza ghulam ahmed qadiyani, Islam is a dead
religion (Allah forbid).
Mirza ghulam ahmed says:
We
believe that a religion in which the succession of prophethood stands closed is
dead. We call the Jewish, the Christian and the Hindu (religions) dead, because
they have no prophets. If Islam, too, were like them, then we are no more than
story-tellers. Why do we claim that it (Islam) is superior to other religions?
Islam should have some distinction to justify this claim... For many years I
have been receiving wahi (revelations) and many signs of Allah have borne
witness to this. I am, therefore, a Prophet. No secrecy should be
maintained in conveying the truth.”
(malfoozate mirza, Vol. 10, pp.
127 -128)
2. It
is the finally confirmed belief of Islam that the door of Prophethood has been
closed after the departure of the noble Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam)
and he who claims to (receive) prophetic revelations stands expelled from the
pale of Islam. However, the qadiyanis believe in the self-invented revelation
of mirza ghulam ahmed qadiyani and recognise it like the Qur’an. The Tazkirah
is one of the various names of the Qur’an. The Qadanis have compiled the
revelations of mirza ghulam ahmed in the form of a book and have given it the
name of Tazkirah, as though it were the qadiyani Qur’an — Allah forbid.
Further, the qadiyani revelation is not an ordinary Ilham (inspiration)
which divine men also receive. To them (the qadiyanis) it is at par with the
Qur’an. Just see:
(i)
“... and I believe in the open wahi
of Allah which I have received, precisely in the same way as I believe in
the verses of the Qur’an.”
(Ek Ghalati ka Izalah, p.6.)
(ii) “I believe in my wahi in the same
way as I believe in the Torah, the Injeel and the Qur’an.”
(Arba’een, p.112).
(iii) “... I swear by God that I believe in
these revelations in the same way as I believe in the Qur’an and other divine
Scriptures. I believe that the word that descends on me is the word of God,
just as I believe that the Qur’an is surely and decidedly the word of God.”
(Haqiqat-ul-Wahi, p.220)
3. It
is an Islamic belief that it is Kufr to claim that one is able to show a
miracle after the departure of the noble Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam)
because the display of miracles is the exclusive privilege of a prophet. As
such, one who claims the ability to show a miracle is a Kafir, because one
(thus) claims to be a prophet.
Allama Mulla Ali Qari (Allah’s mercy on
him) writes in Sharh-i-Fiqh Akbar on page 202:
“The
claim to the ability to show a miracle is a branch of the claim to prophethood
and the claim to prophethood after our noble Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe
Wassallam) is deemed as Kufr by unanimous consensus.”
On
the contrary, the qadiyanis, along with their faith in the revelations of mirza
ghulam ahmed qadiyani, also put faith in his miracles. They regard the miracles
of the noble Prophet as mere stories and tales — Allah forbid. They are
prepared to believe in the noble Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) as a
prophet only when mirza ghulam ahmed is also believed to be a Prophet,
otherwise neither they consider the noble Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam)
as a Prophet, nor Islam as a religion.
Mirza
ghulam ahmed writes:
“Neither
that religion is a religion, nor that Prophet a Prophet by following which/whom
a human being does not attain such closeness to Allah as confers on him the
honour of conversation with Allah. That religion is a curse and an object of
contempt which teaches that human progress depends on a few narrated anecdotes (i.e.
the Islamic Shari‘at which is narrated from the noble Prophet (Sallallaho
Alaihe Wassallam) ‑ Compiler) and that divine revelations have lagged behind
instead of going ahead ... hence such a religion deserves to be called Satanic
rather than divine.”
(zameema-i-baraheen-i-ahmedia,Part
V. p.139)
“How
silly and false a belief it is to think that after the Prophet (Sallallaho
Alaihe Wassallam)
the door of divine revelation is closed for ever and no hope of it is left for
the future till the Day of Resurrection, except that one should worship only
stories. Can such a religion be regarded as religion as offers no direct line
of approach to God? I swear by God that these days none is more disgusted with
such a religion than I. I name such a religion Satanic rather than Divine.”
(Zameema-i-Baraheen-i-ahmedia,Part
V, p.183).
“To
tell the truth, we have come to believe in the Qur’an and the noble Prophet (Sallallaho
Alaihe Wassallam)
through this very source (mirza). We believe in the Qur’an as God’s Word,
because this proves his (mirza’s) prophethood. The ignorant one objects to our
believing in the promised Masih (mirza) as a prophet and his word as the word
of God. He little knows that our faith in the Qur’an and in the Prophethood of
Muhammad (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) is due to his (mirza’s)
prophethood.
(mirza mahmud’s speech published in Al-Fazl, qadiyan, Vol. 13/3, dated July 11, 1925, qadiyani mazhab, Fifth
Edition, Fifth Chapter, No. 74).
It is now quite clear from the
above-cited statements of mirza that, if it is denied that he received
revelations and that he was a prophet, then in his (mirza’s) opinion the belief
in the Prophethood of Muhammad (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) becomes (Allah
forbid) null and void and the religion of Islam is no more than a collection of
stories. Declaring such Islam as cursed, satanic and contemptible, mirza
expresses his disgust with it, rather proclaims himself to be the greatest of
all atheists. The Muslims should take this as a warning. Can there be a more
heinous form of infidelity, heresy, Zandaqah and atheism than to revile
the noble Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) and the religion of Islam to
one’s fill?
4. The Muslims believe that Muhammad
(Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) is the Prophet of Allah. But in his pamphlet, Ek
Ghalati ka Izalah, the mirza has, on the basis of his “revelations”,
declared that he himself is — Allah forbid — Muhammad, the Prophet of Allah. As
the qadiyanis have firm faith in the wahi of mirza ghulam ahmed, they
believe that the late mirza was Muhammad, the Prophet of Allah, and they regard
as Kafir all those who do not believe that mirza was Muhammad, the Prophet of
Allah.
5. On
the basis of the Qur’an and the Traditions (Ahadith) of uninterrupted
narration, the Muslims believe that Hazrat Isa (Christ) (as) was raised up to
the heavens alive and that when the Day of Resurrection draws near, he will
come down and kill Dajjal (Anti-Christ). The mirzais, on the contrary believe
that mirza ghulam ahmed qadiyani himself is Isa and the prophecies mentioned in
the Qur’an and the Traditions about the descending of Hazrat Isa (as) apply to
mirza ghulam ahmed qadiyani.
Thus,
the qadiyanis profess countless Zindiqana (heretic) beliefs about which
scholars of the Ummah have compiled many books which make it abundantly clear
that the qadiyanis are Kafirs, apostates, heretics and Zindeeq.
Fourthly: Funeral
prayers are offered only for Muslims. It is not lawful to offer funeral prayer
for a non-Muslim. The Qur’an says:
“...and never (0 Muhammad) pray for one of them
who dies, nor stand by his grave, for they disbelieved in Allah and His Messenger,
and they died while they were evil-doers”
(Qur’an: Taubah
9 : 84)
All
jurists (of Islam) are unanimous on the point that funeral prayer is lawful on
the condition that the deceased was a Muslim. There is consensus of opinion
that funeral prayer is not lawful for a non-Muslim, nor is it permitted to pray
for his salvation and bury him in the graveyards of the Muslims.
After
these introductory remarks answers to the questions are given seriatim:
ANSWER
TO THE FIRST QUESTION
If
the Muslims who offered funeral prayer for the mirzai were unaware of his
belief, they committed a sin for which
they should implore Allah’s forgiveness, because they committed an unlawful act
by offering funeral prayer for an apostate mirzai.
If
they offered funeral prayer for him, despite their knowledge that the man
believed in mirza ghulam ahmed’s so-called prophethood, had faith in his “wahi”
(revelation) and denied that Hazrat Isa (as) will come down (to earth), then
they (the Muslims) should all renew their Iman (belief) and Nikah (marriage
contract), because it is Kufr to consider the beliefs of an apostate as Islam.
Their Iman and Nikah both became null and void. If anyone of them had performed
the Hajj, it is incumbent on him to perform the Hajj again.
It
must be mentioned here that the qadiyanis do not consider it lawful to offer
funeral prayer for a Muslim, so much so that according to their belief even the
funeral prayers for innocent Muslim children are unlawful. mirza mahmud, the
second viceregent of the qadiyanis writes in his book, Anwar-i-Khilafat:
“Another
question remains (to be answered): The non-ahmedis (i.e. the Muslims) deny the
promised Masih, (ghulam ahmed qadiyani) so we should not offer funeral prayers
for them; but if a small child of a non-ahmedi dies, why should funeral prayer
not be offered for him when he is not guilty of denying the promised Masih?
“I
put this question to the inquirer: If this is correct, then why are no funeral
prayers held for the children of Hindus and Christians? How many are there who
offer funeral prayers for them? The fact remains that the
(Anwar-i-Khilafat, p.93).
A
Fatwa by mirza mahmud was published in Al-Fazl, dated 23rd October,
1922, to the effect that:
“Just
as no funeral prayer can be offered for a Christian child, although he is
innocent, in the same way no funeral prayer can be offered for a non-ahmedi
child.”
(qadiyani mazhab, 5th Edition, 13th Chap. No. 56)
As
such, following the beliefs of his religion, Choudhry Zafarullah Khan (the then
Foreign Minister), did not participate in the funeral prayer of the Quaid-i-Azam.
When he was asked to account for this before the Munir Enquiry Tribunal, he
replied:
“Maulana
Shabbir ahmed Usmani, the leader of the funeral prayer, has declared that the
ahmedis are Kafirs and liable to be executed. So I could not decide to join a
prayer which was being conducted under the Imamat of the Maulana.”
(Report of the
Enquiry Tribunal,
When
he was asked outside the Tribunal:
“Why
did you not join the Quaid-i-Azam’s funeral prayer?” He replied, “You may take
me to be the Musalman Minister of an infidel Government or the infidel employee
of a Muslim Government.”
(Zamindar,
Lahore, dated 8th February, 1950).
When
the Press published reports about this adamant attitude of Choudhry Zafarullah
Khan, then the Rabwah Association of the ahmedis issued the following reply to
this:
“An objection is being raised against Choudhry
Zafarullah Khan as to why he did not join the funeral prayer of the
Quaid-i-Azam. The entire world knows that the Quaid-i-Azam was not an ahmedi.
As such, there is nothing objectionable, if any member of the ahmedia Jamaat
did not join his funeral prayer”.
(Tract 22, Ahrari Ulama ki rastgoi ka number, Publishers, Manager Publication
and Propaganda, Anjuman ahmedia, rabwah, District Jhang.)
Likewise, the qadiyani newspaper Al-Fazl
gave the following reply:
“Is
it not a fact that like the Quaid-i-Azam, Abu Talib also was a great
well-wisher of the Muslims, yet neither the Prophet of Allah nor the Muslims
offered funeral prayer for him?” (Al-Fazl, Rabwah, dated 28th October,
1952).
How shameful it is that while the
qadiyanis, considering the Muslims as Kafirs like Hindus, Sikhs and Christians,
do not join the funeral prayer of their (the Muslims’) great men, nor of their
innocent children —Is it lawful for a Muslim to join the funeral prayer of a
qadiyani apostate? Can his sense of honour tolerate this?
ANSWER
TO THE SECOND QUESTION
When
it has become known that the qadiyanis are Kafirs and apostates, it also
becomes quite clear that a Muslim girl cannot be married to a mirzai apostate.
According to the Islamic Shari‘at this is pure adultery.
If
a Muslim has married his daughter to a mirzai, because of his ignorance and
unawareness, it is his obligatory duty that, after becoming aware of this
position, he should repent his sin and get his daughter rescued from the claws
of the qadiyanis.
It
may be understood that in the opinion of the mirzais the Muslims stand in the
same position in which the Jews and the Christians stand in our opinion. It is
lawful for the mirzais to accept Muslim girls in marriage, but it is not lawful
for them to give their girls in marriage to the Muslims. There is a Fatwa by
mirza mahmud to this effect:
“In
my opinion a person is not ahmedi who marries his daughter to a non-ahmedi. No
one can marry his daughter to a person whom he considers to be a non-Muslim.”
Question:-
“What is the injunction about a Nikah Khwan (solemniser of marriage) who
solemnises such a Nikah?”
Answer:-
“About such a Nikah Khwan we shall pronounce the same Fatwa which can be
pronounced about a person who has performed the marriage contract of a Muslim
girl to a Christian or a Hindu boy.”
Question:-
“Can a person who has married his daughter to a non-ahmedi, invite other
ahmedis to the marriage celebration?”
Answer:-
“It is also not lawful to participate in such marriages.”
(Al-Fazl, qadiyan, Dated 23rd
May, 1921).
Just
as, according to mirza mahmud, the man who marries his daughter to a Muslim
gets outcast from mirza’s community, in the same way that Muslim is outcast
from Islam who, despite his knowledge about the beliefs of the qadiyanis,
considers that it is lawful to give his daughter in marriage to a mirzai. Just
as, according to mirza mahmud, marrying a mirzai girl to a Muslim boy is like
marrying her to a Hindu or Christian, in the same way, I say that making a
mirzai apostate a son-in-law is like making a Hindu, a Sikh or an untouchable
(low-caste Hindu) one’s son-in-law.
ANSWER
TO THE THIRD QUESTION
It
is forbidden for a Muslim to treat the mirzai apostates like Muslims. It is
unlawful, totally unlawful, to associate with them, eat and drink with them and
participate in their joys and sorrows or to invite them to one’s own joys and
sorrows. Those who show such kind of toleration invite the wrath of Allah and
the Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) and it does not befit a believer to
maintain friendly relations with the enemies of Allah and the Rasool
The
Qur’an says:
...You will not find folk who believe in Allah
and the Last Day loving those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even though
they be their fathers or their sons or their brethren or their clan. As for
such, He has written faith upon their hearts and has strengthened them with a
Spirit from Him, and He will bring them into gardens underneath
which rivers flow, wherein they will abide. Allah is well pleased with them,
and they are well pleased with Him. They are Allah’s party. Behold! It is
Allah’s party who are the successful.
(Qur’an: Mujadalah 58:22)
It
is also necessary to mention in the end that the qadiyanis have been declared a
non-Muslim minority in the Constitution of Pakistan. However, the qadiyanis
have neither accepted this decision nor concluded an agreement to live in
And
Allah knows best.
Signed
Muhammad Yusuf Ludhianvi.
The answer is correct:
Signed
Wali Hasan
Head, Darul-Ifta;
Jamiatul-Uloom-il-Islamiyyah