Qadian, India: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community asks religious leaders to refrain from inflammatory statements

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"Anyone among you both (Hindus & Muslims) who contemplates annihilation of the other is like one who saws off the branch on which he is sitting."

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By AT Staff Report/Ch. Maqbool Ahmad | April 16, 2015

QADIAN -- The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of India has appealed to the country's religious leaders to refrain from making inflammatory statements resulting in inter-communal discord.

In a press release issued by Jama'at Ahmadiyya, the community says it has noticed that some leaders are giving statements that hurt the religious sentiments of others. 

"It is feared that these statements may cause intolerance, hatred and outrage among innocent people," the press release said while stressing the religions can play an effective role in promoting peace and harmony in the world.

K. Tarique Ahmad, press secretary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Media Cell India, said that his community appeals to the leaders of all faiths and religions to avoid making hurtful statements. On the contrary, he said, "they should give forth such statements that promote an atmosphere of mutual love and affection."

Quoting from the writings of the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamā'at, Hazrat (His Holiness) Mirzā Ghulam Ahmad, from 107 years ago, Ahmadiyya spokesperson said Hazrat Ahmad had appealed with extreme compassion to promote peace and tolerance between the two great religious communities, Hindus and Muslims. 

In his last written work "A Message of Peace", Hazrat Ahmad advised the two communities to remove hatred and social discrimination between them and urged people of all faiths and religions to live with mutual understanding, love and sympathy. 

"Anyone among you both (Hindus & Muslims) who contemplates annihilation of the other is like one who saws off the branch on which he is sitting," wrote Hazrat Ahmad in A Message of Peace.

“It is a common experience that calamities which cannot be averted by ordinary measures, and the difficulties which seem insurmountable, very often respond to the power of unanimity,” the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at had further written.

Ahmadiyya spokesperson said India is a secular state and its government is a secular government. Therefore, he said, all the issues should be solved within the law and constitution of the country. "Misunderstandings can be resolved in a friendly environment and statements which hurt the sentiments of others should be totally avoided."

Ahmadiyya community stressed that all the citizens of India should unite together and strive hard for the development and prosperity of the country and start a collective campaign to try to eradicate poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, diseases and drug addiction from the nation.

The community suggests that all citizens of India should adopt "Love for All Hatred for None" as a motto of their life. "Every native of this country should strive hard to relieve others from the bond of sorrows and worries. If we would act accordingly, our country will be a cradle of peace and harmony and will be an example for other nations."

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Compiled and/or adopted from report filed by Ch. Maqbool Ahmad, Journalist Qadian.
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