Faith is deeply personal. Faith is between an individual and God. Faith connects human to the divine. And only God is to be the judge of the veracity, or lack thereof, of that connection.
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By Mehr Tarar | October 15, 2017
There are various hadith and narrations of Prophet Muhammad's actions that challenge most theories that endorse such persecution.
Ahmadi Muslim. The two words I am not allowed to put together if I write for a publication in Pakistan, or speak on national television. Once, it was simply the details of the punishment meted out to Ahmadis for practising Allah's name that I had listed - an ordinance of the Pakistan Penal Code and not my personal opinion - which were edited out from an op-ed I wrote for a national daily. Another time, during a talk show on a leading news channel, my comments on the persecution of Ahmadis were not bleeped out - the whole portion, in fact, was edited. Media folks are scared. And justifiably so.
Ahmadis are not Muslims, however, is a sentence that is readily accepted as a declaration, a judgment and a verdict. It is a sentence against an entire community, an entire set of people, an entire set of beliefs, positioning the Ahmadi identity in an unchangeable box of rigidity and bigotry, marking them as the outsider in their society, finalising their isolation in their own country. Pakistan - cleaved from India in 1947 in an effort to provide a new country for the safeguarding of the rights of one particular group of Indians, that is Muslims - in 2017 has ensured that it is not a country for anyone who is not a Muslim, or is the "wrong" kind of a Muslim.
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