“Guide us on the Right Path” is a verse of the first chapter of the Holy Quran, Al Fatiha. This is preceded by attributes of Allah and is the first prayer found in the Holy Text. The straight path is the shortest path which leads man to Allah. The verses which follow asking Allah to save us from going astray like others. We always point to other people who went astray but these verses apply to Muslims also. So, it includes those Muslims who do not act in accordance with the injunctions of the Holy Quran as much as other nations who distorted and corrupted the teachings of their religion.
The verse says: Guide us on the Right Path. It uses the plural rather than the singular. So when saying this prayer one is not only praying for one’s self but for the whole humanity. Islam is the only religion whose most important prayer which is recited in every salaat has a supplication for the whole humanity. It is incumbent upon a Muslim to recite these words otherwise his prayer is incomplete.
After our youtube post about the Qadianis admitting that they do not consider non Qadianis as Muslims a member of the Qadiani jamaat sent us a video in reply to our video where it was said that Sir Zafarullah did not say Qaid-i-Azam’s funeral prayers.
Here is a reply to the feeble Qadiani attempt to explain the reasons for Sir Zafarullah not saying these funeral prayers.
The Holy Quran tells Muslims that times of the five daily prayers are fixed and that Muslim must pray at the fixed time.
The guidance in the Holy Quran is meant to allow us to practice what it teaches.
Praying at the correct time is meant to develop in us respect for time because once lost, it does not return. Yet, though we pray at the correct times Muslims are not punctual when it comes to doing other things. If obeying this command does not train us to do everything in our lives at the appointed time then we have missed an important lesson this verse teaches us.
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad gives a short talk about the position of those Muslims who although they do not recognise his claims do not call him a heretic.
He also advises Ahmadis about what to do if they find that in an area there is only one Ahmadi. Should they join and pray behind a Sunni who calls him a kafir or pray on their own.
The Holy Quran and the Hadith speak of the ascension of the Holy Prophet Mohammad (pbuh).
In this khutba we discuss whether the Miraj was physical or spiritual and its significance for the Muslims community.
It signifies the glory of Islam that a man through his own efforts can achieve nearness to God by following the Holy Quran and the Holy Prophet and that they Holy Prophet was the last Prophet.
Speaking in the context of the death of his son, Mubarak Ahmad, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad says that property and children that one is endowed with are a trial. Even if one loses everything one should not complain but keep seeking Allah’s pleasure for nothing else in this world matters.
The Holy Quran tells us that to unquestioningly believe everything that the so called scholars and leaders, religious and others, is to equate them with the Divine Being.
Jews and Christians denied that they believe their religious leaders to be Divine. On this, The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) challenged these people and asked whether or not they unquestioningly accept whatever their religious leaders command. This he said was treating them like God.
Its not enough just to take the pledge to join the jammat.
Money is needed for the propagation of Islam and members are required to make financial sacrifices for the cause of Islam by donating a part of their hard earned income to the jammat for its activities.
The high importance accorded to ritual worship and remembrance of Allah at all times is shown by this section of the Holy Quran.
Muslims are told that they can reduce the size of the ritual prayer when on a journey or fighting but they still must say the prayers.
They are also told that they must remember Allah at all times even when they are not engaged in ritual prayer.
This section of the Holy Quran also shows how brave and courageous the Holy Prophet Muhammed was. During fighting he would stand at the head of the soldiers lining up to pray making it obvious to the enemy who was the leader.
In this video we read out page 451 of volume 10 of ‘Malfuzat’
On the 25th May 1908 approx 20 hours before he passed on, the promised messiah publicly denied any claim to prophethood and clearly said that he was a saint.
Advances in the medium that is the internet mean that Qadiani lies can be exposed instantly and they cannot, as they did previously, expound contradictory teachings in different countries across the world.
In his press conference held to comment on the attacks on the Qadiani mosques in Lahore. Their representative said that Qadianis believe that all reciters of the kalima are Muslims, even those who call the Qadianis heretics. Quotations from their books are used to prove that this is a lie, coined to curry favour with people.
Here at the VirtualMosque blog we have been receiving lots of questions recently from people wanting to know more about Islam.
So to help these people we are setting up a new weekly post called ‘Ask The VM’, where we will be posting peoples questions and giving them the answers in as straight forward a way as possible.
We hope this new section will be helpful to everyone who reads the blog, and if you have a question you can either post them in the comments section or email us.
This is a summary of the discussion between The Promised Messiah and a Professor of Astronomy from Australia about the existence of life elsewhere in the Universe.
After the attacks on their mosques in Lahore the Qadiani Amir for Pakistan gave a TV interview in which he said that they believe in the finality of prophet and only believe in Hazrat Mirza sahib as the Messiah.
He also said that he even regards those who call them Kafirs as Muslims.
This khutba deals with the first assertion that Qadianis only believe in Hazrat Mirza sahib as the Messiah and nothing more and shows that this is a lie – they do believe in him as a fully fledged prophet.
Fayuz Rehman is the Urdu translation of Ruh-ul-Biyaan, an Arabic commentary of the Holy Quran in about 20 volumes.
At the end of the first volume which contains a commentary on parts 1 and 2 of the Holy Quran the translator has added prophecies about the advent of the Holy Prophet Muhammad which are found in the Hindu, Buddhist and Zoroastrian scriptures, amongst others. He has done so to prove that people like Shri Krishan Maharaj, Shri Ramchandar Ji etc prophecied the advent of the Holy Prophet. But Sunni Muslims do not believe that these people were true Divine appointees.
That being the case there is no point in relating these prophecies to the Holy Prophet Muhammad’s prophethood. It was Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad who said that these people were all probably true prophets of God although their names are not mentioned in the Holy Quran. It then makes sense to quote them. Once again, one hundred years after his advent, Sunnis have chosen to follow the Promised Messiah.
Section 4 of Al Nisa deals with those who did not migrate to Madina to join the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and how they will have to account for their failure on the Day of Judgement.
Our khutba below deals with how ready Muslims were to obey Allah and how on hearing the first verse of this section a family with an old and disabled father, living a long way away from Medina, put their father on a stretcher and his sons carried him to Makkah – the father dying during the journey! It was a marvellous example of obedience to Allah’s Command which when Muslims hear they should obey.
The final part of this three part mini series discussing whether the salvation of the Muslim ummah lies in blindly following the West or returning to the principles laid down in the Holy Quran.
You can watch the first two parts by scrolling down and clicking on the posts from the related items section.
In the breaking news on Friday, media outlets from around the world reported how Muslims had stormed two mosques in Pakistan armed with automatic machine guns and grenades.
These attacks took place during Friday prayers, in a co-ordinated attempt to murder as many of their fellow Muslims as possible.
Muslims killing Muslims under the veil of Islam.
“Muslims are savages, they stand up in unison to condemn pictures of their Holy Prophet, but sit silently whilst there fellow Muslims murder countless fellow human beings around the world.”
The above was posted a few months ago on a random forum. There is certainly some truth in the quote above. Where is the revolution? Why have we not brought down this violent minority? Do we really want to? Is our sacred religion so easy to twist that someone has justified to these gunmen, that it is their duty and in the name of Allah, that they murder fellow Muslims during Friday prayers?
Islam has become synonymous with terrorism in the 21st century, a new generation of hatred and fear has been bred. Any Muslim is seen as a viable threat and a new world of Big Brother has been ushered in by Governments trying to protect their citizens.
Muslims have truly changed the face of this world, for the worse.
The news broke only a few hours before our own Friday prayers in the UK, and our video below is a response to what happened.
This is the second part on this discussion, the first can be found by scrolling down and clicking on the link from the related items.
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad continues to speak about whether the salvation of the Muslim ummah lies in blindly following the West or returning to the principles laid down in the Holy Quran.
He points out Muslims were successful at the time of birth of Islam because they followed principles of the Holy Quran and not because they followed the West
Jihad…..The favourite word of the Western media used to describe acts of violence and terrorism by Islamic extremists.
Jihad….A favourite word used by so called Mullahs’ to attribute punishment against the West and Non Believers.
Jihad seems to have become the buzz word for ways to describe a negative with both the Western media and Muslims, but what does it actually mean? How should it be properly used?
The verse under consideration in our video speaks about jihad with one’s property and jihad with one’s person.
Therefore, jihad does not mean fighting for the sake of religion. On the contrary it means striving for the cause of one’s religion. This is an internal struggle as well as external. An internal struggle to purify one’s self and an external one to propagate Islam
Addressing a trustee of the Aligarh College which had been set up to promote western education amongst the Muslims. Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah, made a long speech explaining the Muslim nation will not make progress by following the West blindly.
They should learn from the West but follow the principles laid down in the Holy Quran and put into practice by the Holy Prophet Muhammad and his companions.
Sanctity of human life in Islam can be judged from the fact that even at time of war when faced with a stranger who uses the Islamic salutation, assalamu alaikum, one must not harm such a person but accept him as a Muslim and then check the truthfulness of the claim.
The investigation should be honest and not be tempered by the temptations of worldly gain. When the Pakistan government initiated an investigation into the beliefs of the Ahmadis it was not a time of conflict and it was not an honest investigation. It was tempered with the desire of worldly gain.
In case of our jamaat Mr Bhutto initially did not want us to be declared kafirs as well as the Qadianis. However, he relented after he was told that by including us with the Qadiani jamaat he will only lose a few thousand votes.
Science has now conclusively established that “we are what we eat”. By analysing the cell structure of a skeleton recently discovered in England, scientists will find out which part of Africa this person came from.
This they will be able to do so because of how cells of a body develop depends on what we eat.
Islam believes that this body is a shell for the soul just like an egg-shell is a shell for the egg-yoke etc..
If the egg-shell is treated in a certain way its contents develop into a chicken. We believe the same is true of the human soul. How the soul develops depends on what we do to its shell, the body, and how the body develops depends on what we eat.
The Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace upon him) was a spiritual healer.
Just like a healer of physical ailments whose diagnoses depends on the patient’s physical condition his diagnoses of spiritual ailments depended on people’s spiritual ailments.
A discussion on who people should vote for, in the light of the instructions of the Holy Quran and a comparison of the character of the Muslim leader with the leaders in the Western World.
We discuss the first eight verses of Chapter 96 of the Holy Quran.
Looking at why Allah commanded not only the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) but the whole of humanity to read and secondly why the command to read occurred twice in those verses.
Unable to discuss and debate with Lahori-Ahmadis on principles, non-Ahmadi Muslims have started saying that Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad could not be the Promised Messiah because he suffered from migraines and diabetes.
A Hadith of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) is given to refute this objection.
Western countries are always telling us that Islam does not allow individuals freedom as do the countries of the West.
Recently, we have had legal bans imposed on Muslim women using the hijab in countries such as France and Italy.
It is now recommended that smoking should be legally banned in cars and homes where there are children.
So where is this absolute freedom in the West that is much shouted about?
A speech by one of the long standing women of our UK Jammat.
As it was the month of the Holy Prophets birth (peace be upon him) Mrs Fauqia Aziz’s speech talks about the morals and manners of the Prophet (pbuh) with extracts taken from Maulana Muhammad Ali’s book ‘Muhammad the Prophet’.
In the event of Britain going to war with an Islamic country who will the Muslims fight for?
Would they fight for Britain or the Islamic country under attack? It is said that Muslims can only be regarded as truly British if they are prepared to kill their brothers in the country under attack.
People in the UK claim that all other minorities would fight for Britain and not side with their co-religious.
Here the example of a Jew is given who says that this question was discussed in his religious education classes and that they always unanimously decided that they would fight for Israel against Britain.
In the above article we shot down the rubbish presented by Nicky Campbell in the BBC program the Big Question, and explained what the verse actually means.
Here we look at more translations of that verse, which The Big Question presented as “men are incharge of women”
We see that nine of them translate this verse, not as making men incharge of women, but making them responsible for their wives needs i.e. maintainers.
We also look at the actual Arabic word which means to create a balance. This verse creates a balance between the responsibilities and rights of husbands and wives.
Why did the Big Question use the one translation which shows Islam in a bad light?
A verse of the Holy Quran which warns Muslims about making friends with Jews and Christians was read out in a TV programme called the Big Question, in an attempt we assume to stoke up anti Islamic feelings.
The Holy Quran warns Muslims about making friends with Christians and Jews rather than Muslims.
This is not to be taken at an individual level but at national and political level. We have seen how Muslims were used by the Christians in the two World Wars and then, immediately after the Wars, Christian countries went on to make decisions which hurt the Muslims. Throughout history Jews have lived in peace in Islamic countries. They even migrated to these countries when persecuted in Christian countries. Allah wants us to depend on ourselves and not on other communities. This is the real spirit of these verses.
We discuss Chapter 5 Verse 51 in detail in the video below.
Members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, commonly known as Qadianis, when asked say that they regards every person who recites the kalima as Muslims.
But when confronted with statements of their founder Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad, they change tack and admit they regard as Muslims only members of their own organisation.
If the Qadianis are sincere and honest why do they hide their true beliefs and trick people?
In a Sunday morning TV programme in the UK, The Big Question, the presenter translated 4:34 of the Holy Quran as “Men are in-charge of women” whereas the correct translation is “Men are maintainers of women”.
We have checked a number of translations of the Holy Quran by Muslims and by non Muslims, and they all translate this verse as ‘Men are maintainers/providers/sustainers of women’. This includes translations of the Holy Quran by such critics as Rodwell and Sale.
It seems odd to ignore the translation by the majority and use the single translation which can be used to criticise islam, this is why Muslims accuse the Western media of being anti-Islam.
Our video discusses whether this verse means women are subservient to men and must obey them at all times. It looks at the condition of women at the time of the Holy Prophet Muhammad and his companions and shows that Islam does not make women subservient to men.
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad explains how Muslims benefited from British rule.
It was under this rule that printing became common place as well as peaceful religious debate which enabled Muslims to learn arguments proving Islams superiority over other religions.
The Holy Quran tells us that Allah sent down two things; one a light and the other the Holy Quran.
What then is the light that was sent by Allah?
That light was the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). He is the light because the Holy Prophet brought people from darkness into light and because he shed light on how to act on the commandments of the Holy Book. The Quran commands us to pray and the Holy Prophet showed us how to pray, for example.
During an early morning walk the Promised Messiah explained to his companions the magnificence of the spiritual powers of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw).
One sign of which was the abundance with which his prayers were accepted and another was the moral transformation wrought in the Arab people.
Sunnis’ often claim that it was Ahmadi backing of the British which led to the British Empire conquering India and taking rule of the country.
They use this as an example to show that Ahmadis’ are not Muslims.
This article was published in The Times as a leading article which discusses how through out history Sunnis’ have backed the British Empire not only with words but with arms.
This is part three of our YouTube series where Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad continues his description of the condition of the Muslims of the Punjab under Sikh rule by giving examples of two incidents which took place in and around Qadian.
In both incidents people were arrested for calling out the Azan in a loud voice. He also mentions the fact that at the time the punishment for injuring a cow was to cut off the hand of the person who did so.
People are surprised that the Holy Quran deals with the accidental killing of one Muslim by another. They think that killing can only be deliberate.
Yet, this is not true. Daily we hear of people being killed by “friendly fire” in combat or someone accidentally running over another person.
The Holy Quran says that a part of the response is to compensate the victims.
There are also objections to payment of this “blood money”. However, we have the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board in the UK which pays compensation to victims. Is this not blood money?
We explore this subject in detail in the video below
A number of our Sikh friends have sent comments regarding Hazrat Mirza sahib’s description of the conditions under which Muslims lived under Sikh rule in the 1800s’.
This is a reply to their comments.
The original videos which raised the debate can be found by clicking on the youtube icon near the top of the page.
Dr Javad Ahmad shows that the techniques of Wuzu taught by the Holy Prophet (pbum) fifteen hundred years ago have now been made compulsory for surgeons prior to undertaking an operation.
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