The Ahmadiyya Muslim community are a reformist sect of Islam that believes in a subservient prophet after Muhammad, and are led worldwide by a caliph who lives in South London - Mirza Masroor Ahmad.
Source/Credit: BBC Asian Network
By Catrin Nye & Athar Ahmad
Posted August 14, 2014
When the extremist group Isis (now know as Islamic State or IS) declared a caliphate taking in parts of Syria and Iraq it reignited a debate over the role of an Islamic state.
For many a caliphate is a political leadership, others a spiritual figurehead, and for some a combination of the two.
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Fida Ul Haque, 23, is studying accounting and is an Ahmadi Muslim.
Some Muslims do not consider Ahmadi Muslims to be Muslim because of their beliefs.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim community are a reformist sect of Islam that believes in a subservient prophet after Muhammad, and are led worldwide by a caliph who lives in South London - Mirza Masroor Ahmad.
Fida argues that politics have nothing to do with a caliphate and that a caliph is a spiritual leader only.
"My view is very different. I think there are two things that a caliph has to fulfil.
"He has to bring people closer to God, and he has to unify mankind. Man cannot appoint a caliph - and there isn't a political side to it."
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