Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat

Liwa-e-Ahmadiyya ; (Flag of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community)
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Officially accepted:	December 28, 1939

Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat (in full Arabic: al-Ğamāʿah al-Islāmīyah al-Aḥmadīyah ), or AMJ for short , is a religious community that emerged from the Ahmadiyya movement and originated in India and is based on Islam and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad . It is led by a spiritual leader called a caliph . In Germany it (as the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Germany KdöR ) claims to have around 40,000 members and operates 50 mosques.

Founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Teaching

The Ahmadiyya, which sees itself as a reform community, emerged at the end of the 19th century in the midst of a multitude of educational endeavors and renewal movements in the Islamic world, at a time when there was great controversy between Christian missionaries and Islamic scholars in British India . In addition to the Koran , Hadith and Sunna , the writings of the founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad are of great importance.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim community was largely shaped by Mirza Bashir ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad , the second caliph, who pushed through the idea of caliphacy against an opposition now known as Ahmadiyya Andschuman Ishat-i-Islam Lahore (AAIIL). The AMJ understands the founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, understood by the AAIIL as a “reformer” and “renewer”, as a subordinate prophet to the founder of religion Mohammed , who is considered to be the last prophet and messenger of God in Islam , but without his own religious doctrine.

history

guide

After the founder's death, Nuur ud-Din was elected first caliph in a closed election among selected members. Since then the community has been led by a caliph elected for life. Since 2003 Mirza Masrur Ahmad has been the spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

Nuur ud-Din (1908-1914)
Mirza Bashir ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad (1914–1965)
Mirza Nasir Ahmad (1965–1982)
Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1982-2003)
Mirza Masrur Ahmad (since 2003)

Motto and symbols

The White Minaret of Qadian and the Liwa-e-Ahmadiyya

The White Minaret of Qadian is a symbol and identification mark of the Ahmadiyya and can be found in the Liwa-e-Ahmadiyya (Ahmadiyya flag). The Liwa-e-Ahmadiyya was first hoisted on December 28, 1939 on the Jalsa Salana in Qadian on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Jamaat by Mirza Bashir ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad. A companion ( Sahāba ) of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad had previously planted, harvested and processed the cotton for the fabric of the flag. Companions then wove the black flag fabric from it, which was 18 feet long and 9 feet wide (about 5.4 mx 2.7 m). In the upper corners the full moon is shown on the left and a crescent moon on the right. A part of verse 123 of Surah Al-'Imran is written over the full moon Badr : "God helped you to victory (at that time) in Badr, while you (your part) were a modest, inconspicuous bunch." Especially during Jalsa Salana the Liwa-e-Ahmadiyya are ceremonially hoisted together with the flag of the respective country.

The motto, love for all - hate for none , comes from Mirza Nasir Ahmad , which he coined during the laying of the foundation stone of the Basharat mosque .

organization

Based in India , the AMJ has organized itself as a transnational network and claims to be present in over 190 countries. The religious community is led by a caliph who has resided in London since 1984 . In the regional associations there is a president ( emir ) and a main missionary (English "missionary in charge"). In small regional associations, the missionary, in personal union also be president. Important decisions are made in a general annual meeting called shūrā, but they still require the approval of the caliph.

The community is organized in the three branches Lajna Imaillah (women), Khuddam ul-Ahmadiyya (men up to 40 years) and Ansarullah (men over 40 years). The Nasirat-i Ahmadiyya (girls up to the age of 15) are looked after by the Lajna Imaillah and the Atfal ul-Ahmadiyya (boys up to the age of 15) by the Khuddam ul-Ahmadiyya. The number of members of the AMJ results from the members of the three divisions, all three of which are structured in parallel.

In all places in which more than two members of the AMJ (Ahmadis) live, a local congregation (Jama'at) is founded, which is combined with other congregations in provincial and national organizations. In Germany , the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat is organized on three levels: the local congregations, the regional associations and the national management level ( National Jamaat ). The local congregations are a Jamaat in rural regions and a local Amarat in larger cities and metropolitan areas with a high number of members , which is divided into smaller districts ( Halqa ). The individual Jamaats of an area together form a region ; The local Amarat are independent and do not belong to any regional association. There is a chairman ( Sadr or Emir ) at each level . In the districts, local congregations and at the national level there are also officials ( Nazim or Secretary ) who together form the assembly ( Aamla ). In large local churches (often the local amarats ) there can be many officials, while in small jamaats several functions can be performed by one person.

Above that there is the international level, at the head of which is a caliph whose term of office is unlimited. He can neither be deposed nor is there a possibility of resignation. He stands above the aforementioned organizations and is also not obliged to follow the advice of the annual international advisory assembly ( Majlis-i Mushawarat ). The election of the emirs in the individual municipalities must be confirmed; he can also remove the emirs without giving reasons.

Each sub-organization manages and leads itself. This is particularly important in the women's organization Lajna Imaillah , in which there are no men in the management either. However, there is a division of tasks. The Khuddam are also responsible for setting up the Ansarullah and Lajna events as well as for security services, since the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat generally does not use any third-party security services. Both men and women are responsible for the technology. Women operate the technology themselves at their events. The community's own TV channel MTA (Muslim Television Ahmadiyya) already has programs that are designed, moderated and technically implemented by women.

membership

entry: One becomes a member by taking the baiat (vow of loyalty) towards the incumbent caliph. Every Ahmadi belongs to one of the three sub-organizations Khuddam ul-Ahmadiyya , Lajna Imaillah or the Ansarullah . If a caliph dies, the vow of loyalty to the newly elected caliph must be renewed.; In the Baiat, the believing Ahmadi proclaims his loyalty to the incumbent caliph, the practice of Islam, the keeping away from sins of all kinds and the confession of the Ahmadiyya beliefs. In addition, one undertakes to pay one sixteenth of the monthly income to the AMJ as a monthly membership fee.

exit: The resignation takes place through the written termination of the Baiat.

exclusion: In the event of a breach of the community order ( Nizam-e-Jamaat ), the Baiat can be terminated by the caliph, which corresponds to an excommunication in Roman Catholic Christianity. The Ahmadiyya practices avoidance (see also al-Walā 'wa-l-barā' ). As a rule, the exclusion is not permanent and can be lifted if repentance is recognizable and atonement is made. A corresponding request for forgiveness must be addressed to the caliph.

Events at national and international level

The most important event and gathering is the Jalsa Salana (annual spiritual meeting). The highest decision-making body is the shūrā (organizational annual meeting).

In addition, the AMJ regularly celebrates the “Religious Founders Day” and participates in the “ Open Mosque Day ”.

Subsidiaries, foundations, programs

Jamia-Ahmadiyya

Ahmadiyya Theological College in Rabwah

The Jamia-Ahmadiyya is a theological college which was founded on May 25, 1928 by Mirza Bashir ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad in Qadian to train Ahmadi theologians. Today the Ahmadiyya has theological colleges in Qadian ( India , founded May 1928), Rabwah ( Pakistan , founded December 1949), Ghana (founded March 1966), Nigeria , Indonesia (founded March 1982), East Mississauga ( Canada , founded September 2003) , London ( United Kingdom ) and Riedstadt ( Germany , founded August 20, 2008).

Tehrik-e-Jadid

Waqf-e-Jadid: Since 1957, the Tehrik-e-Jadid program has been supplemented by Waqf-e-Jadid, a program for religious education in the rural areas of the subcontinent. The Ahmadiyya encourages its members to sell their houses in order to fulfill this duty. Sacrifice is also required of children.

Waqf-e-Nau: Mirza Tahir Ahmad started the Waqf-e-Nau (literally: Program of New Sacrifice) on April 3, 1987 with the words: “This is a time when the first century of Islamic supremacy is gradually turning into the second century of Islamic glory . It should flow from their (Waqfien-e-Nau) consciousness that they were born at a major crossroads in history. We have prayed for them and pleaded with Allah that He would make them outstanding mujaddids as teachers for the next generation. ”Waqf-e-Nau is a program to prepare the young for service in the Jamaat and with it the future of the Jamaat to secure. Ahmadi parents feel it is an honor to dedicate their children to this program.
These “Waqfien-e-Nau” receive additional lessons from an early age. Parents can dedicate their child in writing to the caliph for Waqf-e-Nau before the birth. The caliph decides on the application. Between the ages of 16 and 18, the dedicated children decide whether they want to remain Waqf-e-Nau or leave the program.
There are said to be around 40,000 Waqfien-e-Nau worldwide, mainly in Pakistan, India, Germany, Canada, as well as in the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

Sami wa Basri: The Sami wa Basri (hearing and seeing) department is responsible for music cassettes, CD, video and DVD. The MTA studios belong to this department.

Ishat: The Ischat (Publications) department is responsible for the literature, from internal bulletins and advertising brochures to books. Externally, this department operates in Germany and Switzerland under the name “Verlag Der Islam”.

Nusrat Jehan Foundation: The Nusrat Jehan Foundation builds and operates schools, hospitals and other humanitarian projects. The third caliphate ul-Massih made a trip through West Africa in 1970 in order to promote the school and health system in West Africa as part of the “Nusrat Jehan Plan”.

Islamic Ahmadiyya Students Association: Member of the Islamic Ahmadiyya Student Association V. (IASV) is “according to the statutes every male member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat e. V. Germany attending upper secondary level, an equivalent school or another higher educational establishment, excluding trainees. "(Frankfurt VR 11863)

Humanity First: The organization Humanity First was founded by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in 1992 for the purpose of being able to cooperate with other relief and rescue services in the event of a disaster. (Frankfurt VR 11185)

financing

Tschanda (also Chanda)

The compulsory duties of an Ahmadi include:

The membership fee ( Tschanda Aam ) is one sixteenth of the net income or the income that the member receives for each Ahmadi who has an income. This also includes unemployment benefits, unemployment benefits, social benefits such as social assistance and child benefit. If someone is not able to pay his membership fee accordingly, he can be exempted from it with a request to the incumbent caliph. The request for exemption is usually granted. The supplicants are advised, however, to make at least a symbolic financial contribution - e.g. B. one euro - so that the member can partake of those blessings that are promised to donors in the Koran.
Anyone who does not comply with this donation will be deprived of their active and passive voting rights, which means that he or she cannot be elected to any office and may not participate in the elections for offices.
Another compulsory fee has to be paid to the respective sub-organization. For men between 15 and 40 years of age, 1% of the net annual income is to be paid to the Khuddam ul-Ahmadiyya , for those over 40 years of age, 1% of the net annual income is to be paid to the Ansarullah . Women of the community pay 2 euros per month to the Lajna Imaillah .
The Tschanda Jalsa Salana is used exclusively to finance the annual assembly of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. It amounts to 10% of a net monthly income once a year.
The Tschanda Ijtema is used exclusively to finance the annual meeting of the sub-organizations of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. For members of the Khuddam ul Ahmadiyya it is 0.25% of the net monthly income. Women pay 10 euros a year.
For Id-ul-Fitr, i.e. the festival at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, an alms (Fitrana) has to be paid. Its amount is the equivalent in money of 2.75 kilograms of wheat, i.e. around 2.50 euros per member of the household.
In addition to these types of donations, there is an obligation to pay zakat . The zakat is also collected by the AMJ and then distributed to those in need.

Volunteer Tschanda

Web presence

The first AMJ website was launched in 1994. There was a belief among volunteers that this was a godsend for their community, which always feels misunderstood. Reluctance and opposition from their leadership eventually led to the closure of all but one official website; Discussion forums were blocked. Mirza Tahir Ahmad - and his current successor - had a moratorium on discussing and arguing with opponents. According to the current internet guidelines, national web presences are allowed, the same applies to sub-organizations such as Humanity First, MTA, Khuddam ul-Ahmadiyya, but they are all subject to central control and approval.

In April 2007, the website was greatly reduced after an article in the "Jugend Journal (der) Jamaat" (JJJ) had been publicly discussed, in which a connection between "pork consumption" and an "increasing tendency towards homosexuality" was established.

Legal status in Germany

The Ahmadiyya community in Hesse was the first Muslim community in Germany to be recognized as a public religious community in 2013 . The Ahmadiyya community in Hamburg followed in 2014. With this status, the AMJ is legally equal to the Christian churches.

aims

Predominance of Islam

Ahmadis firmly believe in the imminent domination of Islam. Their vision is to enforce the rule of Islam - worldwide - under the leadership of one of their future caliphs. The Ahmadiyya sees no difference to other Islamic movements, except in their efforts to restore "the original beauty and simplicity of Islam" and in the absolute renunciation of violence in the pursuit of their goals. The missionary zeal of the Ahmadiyya is based on Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's vision of the "conquest of Europe for Islam". Given the activities of Christian missionaries in the Indian subcontinent, it was not enough for Mirza to remain passive. His ambition was to take the offensive, to bring Islam to Europe and to put the Christians, who were perceived as invaders, on the defensive. He was fully convinced that "Islam would flourish and rule the world," and sought to implant this desire in the hearts of his followers. In their “faith and enthusiasm” and “willingness to make sacrifices” for this goal lies the “secret to the success of the Ahmadiyya movement”.

Which goal the Ahmadiyya pursues with its missionary zeal can be seen from the commentary on sura 30 , verse 57:

"With the first rise of Islam, the fall of the Christian peoples was not final, but its rise in our time will bring about the complete suppression of the doctrines of Christianity today."

- Koran - The Holy Quran : Note 153

Missionary work

In order to make the “supremacy of Islam” a reality, the AMJ undertakes significant missionary efforts. This includes sending missionaries all over the world, producing large quantities of publications in our own publishing houses and distributing missionary television programs with our own transmitter ( MTA ). As early as 1934, the "Tehrik-e-Jadid Plan" was founded with the aim of promoting missionary work abroad, which Mirza Bashir ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad described as a "springboard to the establishment of the new world order". There are separate donation activities for these activities (MTA, Tehrik-e-Jadid).

Reform efforts

In addition to external missionary efforts, the Ahmadiyya reforms within the Islamic world are a central concern. The Ahmadiyya, which arose in multi-religious India, sees itself as a reform community that seeks to purge Islam from false interpretations, from superstitions and from traditions introduced by other religions. The aim of the founder was to restore the original Islam, which in his opinion threatened to perish because of “corruption, innovations, polytheism and internal disputes”. His aim was to encourage the Muslims who were troubled by Christian missionaries in British India to cling to Islam, to do the five daily salāt and, for women, to wear the hijab .

Further reform impulses by the Ahmadiyya consist of persuading the Islamic world to rethink its concept of jihad , to respect freedom of religion (rejection of the death penalty for apostasy ) and to defend freedom of expression (as in the case of Salman Rushdie, for example ).

The Ahmadiyya sees a need for further reform in the Islamic world in general education, including in particular the education of women. Within its own organization, the Ahmadiyya tries to implement this with its own women's section Lajna Imaillah .

Hundred Mosques Plan

The goal of building one hundred mosques in Germany is part of the global missionary effort. The “ 100 Mosques Project ” was announced by the fourth caliph, Mirza Tahir Ahmad , on the occasion of the “100th anniversary” in 1989 and was originally supposed to be implemented in ten years. The deadline, which has meanwhile been postponed to 2010, was also not achieved with four to six new mosques being built annually. The goal is to give up backyard mosques and rented objects and thus equip around 40% of the 250 local congregations with a mosque. The Khadija Mosque was opened in Berlin-Heinersdorf in 2008 . In January 2018, 47 mosques were completed.

Association of Religions in Islam

Ahmadiyya teaches that Buddha , Krishna , Abraham and Jesus Christ were Islamic prophets, but that through forgetting, manipulation and additions the religions Buddhism , Hinduism , Judaism and Christianity developed. They claim to have found signs in all of these religions that they expect a “reformer” in the “end times”, who is expected in Islam as a Mahdi .

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad saw himself as the prophesied return of Jesus, Krishna and Buddha in one person. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claimed to have the qualities of all these prophets and to have appeared in the spirit and power of the previous prophets. He claims that the Ahmadiyya movement was founded by divine mandate so that all religions would unite under the banner of Islam, which should be fulfilled within 300 years. In interreligious dialogue, these ideas are understood partly as engaging and partly as syncretistic .

Islam class

The AMJ started on August 20, 2008 in Germany with the training of "Murrabis" (ie "educators") who could be considered as religious teachers. On January 10, 2010, the AMJ applied as a Muslim partner for the State of Hesse for Islamic classes in state schools . The state of Hesse announced on December 17, 2012 that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat was a partner for the state for teaching Islam in schools.

Originally, the AMJ had spoken out in favor of introducing a subject in religious studies or ethics , but then had to recognize that this proposal was politically unenforceable in Germany. AMJ Germany sees practical problems in the implementation of Islamic teaching , both in terms of content in the creation of curricula and organizational problems in the establishment of a carrier that represents all Islamic associations and groups. With a necessary compromise, an Islam-Light could emerge as a cloud cuckoo land, an "ideal world that is afraid to name things and discuss them". That would be in the interests of neither German society nor the Islamic associations.

Criticism of AMJ in Germany

In 2007 an article with the title “Lucky Pig or Poor Pig” appeared in a youth journal of the Ahmadiyya community, in which reasons for not eating pork were compiled. Among other things, it was claimed that a “shameless animal” like the pig that lived in the rubbish also shaped the moral behavior of the consumer and that the fourth caliph of the AMJ, Mirza Tahir Ahmad, had established a connection between pork consumption and increasing homosexuality in society. This publication was criticized in various press reports as a vilification of homosexuals and caused outrage , especially in the LGBT movement. Alexander Zinn, the spokesman for the LSVD , pointed out the increasing agitation of Islamic fundamentalists against homosexuals, which reached as much as appeals for murder, and warned against bringing up young people with such worldviews. A day later, the group of the Greens in the German Bundestag also criticized these statements as inhuman. All democrats would have to condemn such ideas and teachings as violating human rights.

The Ahmadiyya community leadership initially stated that the AMJ agreed with the statements of the article "in general", but could not confirm the alleged statement of the fourth caliph, since his exact words were "currently not available". Shortly afterwards she removed the article from her homepage. While the Ahmadiyya community explicitly rejected "hatred and persecution against others", the incident was seen by critics as an indication of their fundamentalist orientation. The Evangelical Central Agency for Weltanschauung issues certified the Ahmadiyya as having an “ultra-orthodox to fundamentalist understanding of the Koran”, while Jan Feddersen in the taz counted them “among the more liberal […] Muslims”, but the article in question as an “illustrative example of superstition in modern times and crudest religious interpretation of the world ”.

Publications

The Review of Religions: Monthly magazine since January 1902; Islam International Publications Ltd., ISSN 0034-6721
Al-Fazl International: Weekly newspaper since January 7, 1994; Islam International Publications Ltd., ISSN 1352-9587
The Muslim Sunrise: Monthly magazine in the US since 1921
White minaret: “Islamisches Kulturmagazin” in Germany, published irregularly until August 2003, Der Islam Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, ISSN 1433-5484

literature

Muhammad Afzal Upal: Moderate Fundamentalists. Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at in the Lens of Cognitive Science of Religion , De Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-055664-3 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Ahmadiyya - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Official website: en , de , ch , at
Mosques of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat
Thilo Guschas: Between model Muslims and secret sects. The Ahmadiyya congregation in Germany . Deutschlandradio Kultur, October 4, 2008

Individual evidence

↑ What is "Ahmadiyyat"? Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Germany, accessed October 20, 2018 .

↑ The Religions of Mankind Volume 25 Islam: III. Islamic culture - contemporary trends - popular piety , Kohlkammer, 1990. p. 420
Kathrin Weiß: Ahmadiyya, Sonderform des Islam , pp. 5, 7

^ Dietrich Reetz (ed.): Islam in Europe: Religious life today. A portrait of selected Islamic groups and institutions . Waxmann, Münster 2010, p. 80 .

^ A Brief History of Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam: Khalifat Silver Jubilee

↑ Verse 3, 123 in the translation Rudi Paret

↑ "Pathway to Paradise", Chapter 7

↑ Simon Ross Valentine: Islam and the Ahmadiyya Jama'at. History, Belief, Practice . Columbia University Press, New York 2008, pp. 111 .

↑ Muniruddin Ahmed : Sociology of Ahmadiyya. Archived from the original on March 15, 2008 ; accessed in 2008 .

↑ The training of the first Ahmadiyya theologians began in 2008 in Baitus Sabuh in Frankfurt-Bonames, a new building of the Jamia Ahmadiyya Germany was completed in 2012 in Riedstadt, Goddelau district and inaugurated on December 17th. Self-designation of the Jamia in Germany: "Institute for Islamic Theology and Languages"

↑ ^a ^b AMJ: German Ahmadiyya Bulletin, November 2006, p. 35

↑ AMJ: German Ahmadiyya Bulletin, February 2006, p. 26

↑ AMJ: A Brief History of Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam , p. 72

^ Address of the caliph to Waqf-e-Jadid on January 5, 1957, Haider Ali Zafar's Friday address of December 12, 2003. Source: German Ahmadiyya Bulletin, December 2006, p. 20

↑ AMJ: Introduction to Department of Waqf-e-Nau

↑ IASV - Islamic Ahmadiyya Student Association e. V. Archived from the original on September 10, 2010 ; Retrieved May 31, 2008 .

↑ Humanity First Germany e. V.

↑ Source: German Ahmadiyya Bulletin, November 2006, pages 37/38

↑ Answering-Ahmadiyya.com: An ex-Ahmadi tells ( Memento from April 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

↑ German Ahmadiyya Bulletin, December 2006, pp. 21/22; January 2007, p. 19; Special edition 2005

↑ AMJ: Policy Governing Internet, Websites and E-Mail, as of July 2004

↑ Berliner Morgenpost on April 12, 2007: Ahmadiyya youth: Pork makes you gay. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007 ; accessed in 2007 . alternatively: Link to the article in the paid archive

↑ Youth Journal of the Jamaat, No. 26, Spring 2005: Lucky Pig or Poor Pig? Why non-Muslims should also avoid pork. Archived from the original on June 17, 2008 ; Retrieved August 29, 2012 .

↑ Islam now officially belongs to Germany , welt.de

↑ “Now Islam has arrived in Hamburg” ( Memento from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), ndr.de

↑ AAIIL: True Conception of the Ahmadiyya Movement (PDF; 77 kB), page 44f

↑ Koran - Der Heilige Quran , Verlag der Islam, 2009, ISBN 3-921 458-00-5

^ Islam International Publications Ltd. , Islamabad / Tilford, GB; Verlag Der Islam , Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Oriental & Religious Publications Ltd., Rabwah

↑ Kathrin Weiß: Ahmadiyya, Sonderform des Islam , page 7/8

↑ The Religions of Mankind Volume 25 Islam: III. Islamic culture - contemporary trends - popular piety. Kohlkammer, 1990. p. 421

↑ AMJ: Death to the heretic? About zealots and apostates in Islam ( memento of July 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), in: "White Minaret", January 1998, page 20
AMJ: Punishment for Apostasy (alislam.org)

↑ Abdullah Wagishauser (editor): Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Islamic statements on the provocations of Salman Rushdie and the appeal for murder by radical Iranian Shiites. Frankfurt 1992, Verlag der Islam, ISBN 978-3-921458-80-8 ( PDF ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))

↑ AMJ: 100 Mosque Plan ( Memento from January 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (archive page)
Evangelical Information Center: Ahmadiyya Movement - The 100 Mosque Project

↑ "Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth", Chapter 7: "Future of Revelation" , Islam International Publications Ltd., ISBN 978-1-85372-640-8
"Truth about Ahmadiyya", Chapter 8: "Reflection of all the Prophets "

^ A Life Sketch of the Promised Messiah

↑ hr-online on January 10, 2010: Two possible partners: Islam lessons are getting closer. Archived from the original on January 12, 2011 ; Retrieved February 3, 2011 .

↑ A "historical decision": Hesse introduces Islamic religious instruction. stern online, December 18, 2012, accessed December 25, 2012 .

↑ Hadayatullah Hübsch : Islam Lessons in Schools? (A debate) ( February 9, 2013 memento on the Internet Archive ), White Minaret, May / July 1999

↑ Hadayatullah Hübsch : Letter to the Editor ( Memento of February 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the article “Islamkunde is necessary”. Archived from the original on October 30, 2008 ; Retrieved February 5, 2011 . in Evangelical Frankfurt , October 6, 2005

↑ Munazza Aquil Khan: Lucky Pig or Poor Pig ? Why non-Muslims should also avoid pork. In: WordPress.com . 2015, accessed April 18, 2020 .

^ ^A ^b Ahmadiyya Muslims denigrate homosexuals. In: Tagesspiegel . April 15, 2007, accessed April 18, 2020 .

↑ Oliver Haustein-Teßmer: "Pork makes you gay". In: world . April 15, 2007, accessed April 18, 2020 .

↑ Oliver Haustein-Teßmer: Greens condemn attacks against gays. In: world . April 16, 2007, accessed April 18, 2020 .

↑ Jan Feddersen: Got a pig? In: taz . April 24, 2007, accessed April 18, 2020 .

↑ "The Muslim Sunrise"

Remarks

↑ Symbolism: "According to the Sunnah , the Mahdi will appear in the last days with a black flag."
Source: Lexikon des Islam, p. 678, Th. P. Hughes, Orbis-Fourier 1995.
↑ The Ahmadiyya flag is originally 9 by 18 feet and was first hoisted on the Jalsa Salana in Qadian in 1939 .
Source: Khalifat Silver Jubilee
↑ “The day of the founders of religion was founded in India in the 1930s by the then head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. The representatives of the three world religions Christianity, Judaism and Islam were given the opportunity to portray the beauty of the respective personalities who brought their faith to life. "
↑ In his Friday address on January 7, 2005, the caliph asked the Ahmadi mothers to enroll their children in the Waqf-e-Jadid.
Source: German Ahmadiyya Bulletin, July / August 2005, page 29
^ Commercial register : "Islamische Ahmadiyya Studenten Vereinigung e. V. ", extract from the register of associations Frankfurt / Main VR 11863
^ Commercial register : “Humanity First Deutschland e. V. ", extract from the register of associations Frankfurt / Main VR 11185
↑ The Fitrana has to be paid for newborns.
Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Bulletin, October 2006, page 15
↑ “As the epoch of the supremacy of faith in the crucifixion of Christ is over and the world has changed its face, this faith will be spoiled for the wise, and before three centuries have passed, all who wait for Jesus will be Muslims and the Christians, desperate and suspicious, give up this belief. There will only be one religion in this world and only one prophet to guide us. ”
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad: Tazkirah , p. 462 f.
↑ The Al Fazl (local) as a daily newspaper in Rabwah and (international) as a weekly paper in London appears.

[1] What is "Ahmadiyyat"? Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Germany, accessed October 20, 2018 .

[2] The Religions of Mankind Volume 25 Islam: III. Islamic culture - contemporary trends - popular piety , Kohlkammer, 1990. p. 420
Kathrin Weiß: Ahmadiyya, Sonderform des Islam , pp. 5, 7

[3] Dietrich Reetz (ed.): Islam in Europe: Religious life today. A portrait of selected Islamic groups and institutions . Waxmann, Münster 2010, p. 80 .

[6] A Brief History of Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam: Khalifat Silver Jubilee

[7] Verse 3, 123 in the translation Rudi Paret

[8] "Pathway to Paradise", Chapter 7

[9] Simon Ross Valentine: Islam and the Ahmadiyya Jama'at. History, Belief, Practice . Columbia University Press, New York 2008, pp. 111 .

[10] Muniruddin Ahmed : Sociology of Ahmadiyya. Archived from the original on March 15, 2008 ; accessed in 2008 .

[12] The training of the first Ahmadiyya theologians began in 2008 in Baitus Sabuh in Frankfurt-Bonames, a new building of the Jamia Ahmadiyya Germany was completed in 2012 in Riedstadt, Goddelau district and inaugurated on December 17th. Self-designation of the Jamia in Germany: "Institute for Islamic Theology and Languages"

[bulletin_2006_11-13] AMJ: German Ahmadiyya Bulletin, November 2006, p. 35

[14] AMJ: German Ahmadiyya Bulletin, February 2006, p. 26

[15] AMJ: A Brief History of Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam , p. 72

[16] Address of the caliph to Waqf-e-Jadid on January 5, 1957, Haider Ali Zafar's Friday address of December 12, 2003. Source: German Ahmadiyya Bulletin, December 2006, p. 20

[18] AMJ: Introduction to Department of Waqf-e-Nau

[19] IASV - Islamic Ahmadiyya Student Association e. V. Archived from the original on September 10, 2010 ; Retrieved May 31, 2008 .

[21] Humanity First Germany e. V.

[24] Source: German Ahmadiyya Bulletin, November 2006, pages 37/38

[25] Answering-Ahmadiyya.com: An ex-Ahmadi tells ( Memento from April 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

[26] German Ahmadiyya Bulletin, December 2006, pp. 21/22; January 2007, p. 19; Special edition 2005

[27] AMJ: Policy Governing Internet, Websites and E-Mail, as of July 2004

[28] Berliner Morgenpost on April 12, 2007: Ahmadiyya youth: Pork makes you gay. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007 ; accessed in 2007 . alternatively: Link to the article in the paid archive

[29] Youth Journal of the Jamaat, No. 26, Spring 2005: Lucky Pig or Poor Pig? Why non-Muslims should also avoid pork. Archived from the original on June 17, 2008 ; Retrieved August 29, 2012 .

[30] Islam now officially belongs to Germany , welt.de

[31] “Now Islam has arrived in Hamburg” ( Memento from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), ndr.de

[32] AAIIL: True Conception of the Ahmadiyya Movement (PDF; 77 kB), page 44f

[33] Koran - Der Heilige Quran , Verlag der Islam, 2009, ISBN 3-921 458-00-5

[34] Islam International Publications Ltd. , Islamabad / Tilford, GB; Verlag Der Islam , Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Oriental & Religious Publications Ltd., Rabwah

[35] Kathrin Weiß: Ahmadiyya, Sonderform des Islam , page 7/8

[36] The Religions of Mankind Volume 25 Islam: III. Islamic culture - contemporary trends - popular piety. Kohlkammer, 1990. p. 421

[37] AMJ: Death to the heretic? About zealots and apostates in Islam ( memento of July 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), in: "White Minaret", January 1998, page 20
AMJ: Punishment for Apostasy (alislam.org)

[38] Abdullah Wagishauser (editor): Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Islamic statements on the provocations of Salman Rushdie and the appeal for murder by radical Iranian Shiites. Frankfurt 1992, Verlag der Islam, ISBN 978-3-921458-80-8 ( PDF ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))

[39] AMJ: 100 Mosque Plan ( Memento from January 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (archive page)
Evangelical Information Center: Ahmadiyya Movement - The 100 Mosque Project

[40] "Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth", Chapter 7: "Future of Revelation" , Islam International Publications Ltd., ISBN 978-1-85372-640-8
"Truth about Ahmadiyya", Chapter 8: "Reflection of all the Prophets "

[41] A Life Sketch of the Promised Messiah

[43] hr-online on January 10, 2010: Two possible partners: Islam lessons are getting closer. Archived from the original on January 12, 2011 ; Retrieved February 3, 2011 .

[44] A "historical decision": Hesse introduces Islamic religious instruction. stern online, December 18, 2012, accessed December 25, 2012 .

[45] Hadayatullah Hübsch : Islam Lessons in Schools? (A debate) ( February 9, 2013 memento on the Internet Archive ), White Minaret, May / July 1999

[46] Hadayatullah Hübsch : Letter to the Editor ( Memento of February 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the article “Islamkunde is necessary”. Archived from the original on October 30, 2008 ; Retrieved February 5, 2011 . in Evangelical Frankfurt , October 6, 2005

[4] Symbolism: "According to the Sunnah , the Mahdi will appear in the last days with a black flag."
Source: Lexikon des Islam, p. 678, Th. P. Hughes, Orbis-Fourier 1995.

[5] The Ahmadiyya flag is originally 9 by 18 feet and was first hoisted on the Jalsa Salana in Qadian in 1939 .
Source: Khalifat Silver Jubilee

[11] “The day of the founders of religion was founded in India in the 1930s by the then head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. The representatives of the three world religions Christianity, Judaism and Islam were given the opportunity to portray the beauty of the respective personalities who brought their faith to life. "

[17] In his Friday address on January 7, 2005, the caliph asked the Ahmadi mothers to enroll their children in the Waqf-e-Jadid.
Source: German Ahmadiyya Bulletin, July / August 2005, page 29

[20] Commercial register : "Islamische Ahmadiyya Studenten Vereinigung e. V. ", extract from the register of associations Frankfurt / Main VR 11863

[22] Commercial register : “Humanity First Deutschland e. V. ", extract from the register of associations Frankfurt / Main VR 11185

[23] The Fitrana has to be paid for newborns.
Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Bulletin, October 2006, page 15

[42] “As the epoch of the supremacy of faith in the crucifixion of Christ is over and the world has changed its face, this faith will be spoiled for the wise, and before three centuries have passed, all who wait for Jesus will be Muslims and the Christians, desperate and suspicious, give up this belief. There will only be one religion in this world and only one prophet to guide us. ”
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad: Tazkirah , p. 462 f.

[52] The Al Fazl (local) as a daily newspaper in Rabwah and (international) as a weekly paper in London appears.

Liwa-e-Ahmadiyya (Flag of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community)

Vexillological symbol :
Aspect ratio:	1: 2
Officially accepted:	December 28, 1939