Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nabuwwat marks Finality of Prophethood Day across the country
ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE, Sep 07 (SABAH): Religious scholars on the appeal of Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nabuwwat observed the Finality of Prophethood Day across the country on Wednesday and delivered detailed speeches on the subject of Ahmadis.
Religious scholars belonging to Lahore, Multan, Karachi, Islamabad, Chiniot, Chenab Nagar, Sheikhupura, Jhang, Rawalpindi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Mirpur Khas, Rahim Yar Khan, Mandi Bahauddin, Gujarat, Sahiwal, Bahawalpur, Chichawatni, Okara, Nankana Sahib, Nawabshah, Muzaffargarh, Gujranwala, Khanewal, Vehari, Dera Ghazi Khan, Layyah, Bhakkar and other small and big cities of the country.
While addressing the Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nabuwwat conference, Naib Emir Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, Liaqat Baloch said that Hazrat Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) is Rahmatul lil Alameen (Mercy for all the worlds) and Khatam an-Nabiyyin (The last prophet) and continued that the entire Muslim Ummah is stick to this belief. Anyone who doesn’t believe this has a separate identity but he is not a Muslim, he said and further revealed those who oppose this belief, the disbelievers across the world safeguard such persons.
A conference was also held under the auspices of Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nabuwwat in Jamia Ashrafia Muslim Town Lahore to mark the historic decision made against Ahmadis in September 7, 1974.
Addressing the conference, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl’s Secretary General Senator Maulana Abdul Gafoor Haideri remarked that Ahmadis are disloyal to both the country and Islam and recalled the Pakistani Parliament’s historic verdict declaring Ahmadis non-Muslim on September 7, 1974 which was indeed aftermath of tireless efforts of the lovers of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).
The Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan became a part of the Constitution of Pakistan under the then Government of Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. It declared that Ahmadis were non-Muslims.
In the light of Constitution, “Muslim” means a person who believes in the unity and oneness of Almighty Allah, in the absolute and unqualified finality of the Prophethood of Muhammad (peace be upon Him), the last of the Prophets, and does not believe in, or recognize as a prophet or religious reformer, any person who claimed or claims to be a prophet, in any sense of the word or of any description whatsoever, after Muhammad (Peace be upon Him); and (b) “non-Muslim” means a person who is not a Muslim and includes a person belonging to the Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist or Parsi community, a person of the Qadiani group or the Lahori group (who call themselves ‘Ahmedis’ or by another name), or a Bahai, and a person belonging to any of the scheduled castes.”