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The Heavenly Decree is the English translation of Asmani Faisala by Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi (as) and the Founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at. It is addressed to his contemporary ulema, specially Miyan Nadhir Husain Dehlawi and Maulawi Muhammad Husain of Batala who had issued a fatwa of heresy against the Promised Messiahas and declared him a non-Muslim, because he (the Promised Messiahas) had claimed that Jesus Christ had died a natural death and the second coming of Masih ibni Mariam (Jesus Christ) is fulfilled by the advent of Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas. Because (by the time the book was written) the ulema had refused to debate this issue with the Promised Messiah, he invited them, in this book, to a spiritual contest in which the question whether someone is a Muslim or not would be settled by Allah himself on the basis of four criteria of a true believer as laid down by Him in the Holy Quran. He also spelled out the modus operandi of this contest and fixed the period of time frame within which this contest would be decreed by Allah. He declared that God would not desert him and would help him and would grant him victory. US$8.00 [Order] |
Author: Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan Description: This book provides a translation by Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan of the Riyad as-Salihin, literally "Gardens of the Rightous", written by the Syrian Shafi'i scholar Muhyi ad-din Abu Zakariyya' Yahya b. Sharaf an-Nawawi (1233-78), who was the author of a large number of legal and biographical work, including celebrated collection of forty well-known hadiths, the Kitab al-Arba'in (actually containing some forty three traditions.), much commented upon in the Muslim countries and translated into several European languages. His Riyad as-Salihin is a concise collection of traditions, which has been printed on various occasions, e.g. at Mecca and Cairo, but never before translated into a western language. Hence the present translation by Muhammad Zafarullah Khan will make available to those unversed in Arabic one of the most typical and widely-known collection of this type. US$14.99 [Order] |
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The deadly attack on an Ahmadiyah community last Sunday has prompted lawmakers and the government to speed up work on a religious harmony bill meant to prevent future violence.
“Ideally, we need three to four sitting periods to deliberate a law,” said Ahmad Zainuddin, deputy head of House of Representatives Commission VIII, which oversees religious affairs.
“But given the urgency, I am sure that we could push for the completion of the religious harmony bill by the end of the year,” he said on Friday.
The bill being drafted by the House’s expert staff at the Secretariat General is part of the 2011 National Legislation Program (Prolegnas), or the list of priority bills for the year.
Ahmad said the bill would serve as a shield for religious groups and would ensure that everyone would be able to practice their faith without fear of violence or intimidation.
However, M. Arwani Thomafi, a member of Commission VIII from the Islam-based United Development Party (PPP), said although the spirit of the bill was to respect all faiths, it would not recognize groups established to defame other religions.
“It won’t legitimize fallacious groups,” Arwani said. “Freedom [to worship] doesn’t mean that you can tarnish the teachings of other religions.”
He said the bill would not address the 2008 join ministerial decree limiting the activities of the Ahmadiyah, a minority Muslim sect deemed deviant for its teachings.
However, Arwani said the bill, if passed into law, would provide the Ahmadis with more protection, but added that regulations alone would never be able to completely eradicate religious violence in the country.
He said families, civic groups and religious figures needed to work together to promote tolerance and harmony.
The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) said on Friday that it was considering whether to use the House’s right to question the government to call in officials over the failure to prevent religious violence.
Ahmad Basarah, deputy secretary general of the PDI-P, said in a news conference at the party’s headquarters in South Jakarta that chairwoman Megawati Sukarnoputri had urged members to discuss the issue in the House.
“We will soon summon members of the House leadership from the PDI-P to accelerate the establishment of a special committee to talk about violence related to religion,” he said after a party meeting on Thursday.
“The special committee could end up exercising its interpellation rights and summoning the president to question him about the matter,” Ahmad said.
Hamka Haq, a senior PDI-P official, blamed state officials for the violence, saying some had made statements encouraging attacks on minority sects.
He cited edicts from the Religious Affairs Ministry ordering the Ahmadiyah sect to disband and the Justice Ministry’s statement that religious attacks were not human rights violations.
“Those statements from the president’s helpers encouraged and boosted the confidence of the attackers,” he said. “They make the situation worse.”
Hamka said the state needed to stop condoning violence.
“We won’t say that Ahmadiyah beliefs are true,” he said. “We only want to stress that it’s wrong if the government cannot provide protection for Ahmadiyah members.”
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