Din is hiding in different cities as his name and photos have been distributed to different religious groups advertising that he is an infidel.
Source/Credit: Asian Human Rights Commission
By Staff report | June 11, 2013
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) issued a statement today revealing that it has received information about a former Shia Muslim who has by his own choice, converted to Ahmadi Muslim sect is now facing threats to his life.
According to the information received by the AHRC, Mr. Sharafat Din, 35 years of age, the son of Ahmed Mir and a resident of Gilgit-Baltistan province Pakistan, who hails from the Shia Sect of Islam, on his own choice joined the Ahmadi faith in June of 2013.
The Shia Sect is the second largest sect of Islam.
Further according to the information, Din's family members have kidnapped his wife and his child as punishment for joining Ahmadiyya Islam.
The community where he resides has declared him an infidel and has deemed that he is to be killed by the community due to his religious beliefs.
Din's nephew has filed a First Information Report (FIR) with the Police, accusing him of spreading hate against Muslims and for 'preaching Ahmedi ideology' in the community. According to reports the police have, in turn filed a criminal case against Din for instigating a sectarian violence.
Din is hiding in different cities as his name and photos have been distributed to different religious groups advertising that he is an infidel.
The AHRC noted with concern, the persecution of Ahmadi's by religious fundamentalists in Pakistan, which has to date continued unabated and they have viewed conversions into the Ahmadi sect as one of the biggest crimes against Islamic principles.
Pakistan has officially declared the Ahmadis to be non-Muslims and in their freedom of religion has been curtailed by a series of ordinances, acts and constitutional amendments. The Ahmadi sect was declared un-Islamic by a constitutional amendment in 1974 and all other Islamic sects continue to discriminate against the Ahmadiyya community so much so that they are not even allowed to perform any Islamic rituals.
Ahmadis are barred by law from worshiping in public places, or in structures identified as mosques, performing the Muslim call to prayer, using the traditional Islamic greeting in public and or publicly quoting from the Quran. Any Ahmadi found engaged in any Islamic activity is meted with the ultimate punishment of death by Pakistani courts or by public killings by Islamist mobs.
Read AHRC Statement here
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The AHRC draft appeal has a glaring anomaly when it uses the phraseology 'changing the faith of Islam to Ahmadi'. This thus implies that 'Ahmadi' is a new religion different from the religion of Islam, thereby giving credibility to the stand of anti-Ahmadi clergy in Pakistan. We are Ahmadi sect of Islam, and not something separate from Islam.This may be brought to the notice of AHRC
ReplyDeleteDear All, I would first like to state that conversions of individuals from this world and believing in the Promised Messiah and Mehdi (as) will never stop by His kind grace and mercy. It is a Godly Jamaat and it has His blessings and will continue to do so till the last day - Ameen.
ReplyDeleteNow to clarify one other aspect that Jamaat Ahmadiyya is not a SECT within Islam at all. It is a Jamaat which has one spiritual leader and everyone within it is obedient to this pious leader. Ahmad is another name given to the Holy Prophet (saw) and Ahmadiyyat is simply based on this pious name of my beloved Prophet Ahmad (saw).
He also said in response to a query from a sahabi (ra) that they would be treated the same as me and my sahaba are treated and this would be one of the signs of their truthfulness.
Hence Ahmadiyyat is nothing but the Fundamental Islam as was preached and practised by my Holy Prophet (saw). (Very similar to Christianity - Christians will not believe this but they are essentially Jews for Jesus Christ (pbuh) said about the fact that he would not even change a dot of the law but all will be fulfilled). Hence all believers of Christ (pbuh) are called Christians but in essence what is their religion? It is the same religion which was revealed to Moses (pbuh) which was Judaism.
Im a Pakistani I have always spoken for what is right' because our prophet Muhammad pbuh's teachings tell us to speak the truth . I have defended Israel when Palestinians have attacked and Vica versa, I have supported Americans because they give us so much in aid. Telling you all this is merely a reason of speaking the truth and standing up for what is right and against what is wrong. Giving threat to a person for changing his religion or sect is obnoxious I believe everyone has the right to live and nobody should be allowed to take a life of the other person. Shia sunni Ahmedi christian Jew etc we all are human beings created by one God. To him we shall return so instead of fighting let's resolve our differences live in peace
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