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The Name ‘Muslim Sunrise’ was chosen for a personal reason.
The Muslim sunrise has the distinction of being the longest running Muslim publication in the United States which was published in the United States of America, solely to spread the Message of Islam and to enlighten the Western World as to the true teaching of Islam. Its publication started around 87 years ago, in 1921, from Chicago by Dr. Mufti Muhammad Sadiq, an eminent scholar who had spent a long time in the service of his teacher, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad al-Qadiani (as), and who had the distinct honour of being the first Missionary of the Ahmadiyya Jama’ah to America for the propagation of Islam.
Dr. Mufti Muhammad Sadiq was one of the foremost murids of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad al-Qadiani (as), a close confidante, and had accepted Mirza Ghulam Ahmad al-Qadiani. As such he had the honour of observing the suluk, adab and practice of his shaykh. He was distinguished in English, Hebrew and Arabic, and had also learnt a great deal from the first successor (khalifah) to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad al-Qadiani, Hakeem Maulana Nur-ul-Din (ra) and had learnt a great deal through his tutelage, as well as through that of the second successor (khalifah) Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad (ra).
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22 January, 2008 at 10:56 am
Islam is Love
The Hadith & Sunnah of the Holy Prophet (saw)
[Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Review bar Mubahatha Batalwi wa Chakralwi, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 19, pp. 209-212]
22 January, 2008 at 10:57 am
Islam is Love
Authoritative Books
[Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Arya Dharam, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 10, pp. 86-87]
22 January, 2008 at 10:57 am
Islam is Love
An objector hears from someone that the Ahadith are not reliable and he immediately concludes therefrom that with the exception of the Holy Qur’an all other authorities in Islam are baseless and doubtful and fall far short of certainty and conclusiveness. This is a great mistake, the first result of which is to destroy faith and religion; for if it were true that with the exception of the Holy Qur’an all other sources are false, imposture, conjectures and imagination, then little would be left of Islam for all the details of our faith have come down to us through Ahadith. Our Prayer services have been made obligatory by the Holy Qur’an, but it is nowhere laid down in the Qur’an that the Dawn Prayer (Fajr) comprises two rak’as of Fard and two rak’as of Sunnah, and the Noon Prayer (Zuhr) comprises four rak’as of Fard and four and then two rak’as of Sunnah, and the Sunset Prayer (Maghrib) comprises three rak’as of Fard and the Evening Prayer (‘Isha) comprises four rak’as of Fard. In the same way, we have to depend upon Ahadith to discover the details of Zakat. There are thousands of details relating to worship and dealings and covenants which are derived from the same source. Besides, the principal source of Islamic history is Ahadith. If Ahadith are not to be relied upon you cannot take it as certain that Abu Bakr and ‘Umar and ‘Uthman and ‘Ali (May Allah be pleased with them) were the companions of the Holy Prophetsa, who became his successors in that order and died in that order. If Ahadith are not to be relied upon, we cannot be certain about the existence of these great personalities and it might be possible that all these names are fictitious and that there was no Abu Bakr, no ‘Umar, no ‘Uthman and no ‘Ali…. In the same way, shall we deny that the name of the father of the Holy Prophetsa(peace and blessings of Allah be on him) was ‘Abdullah, and the name of his mother was Aminah, and the name of his grandfather was ‘Abdul-Muttalib, and one of his wives was named Khadija and
another ‘Ayesha, and another Hafsa (May Allah be pleased with them) and that the name of his foster-mother was Halima, and that he used to withdraw to cave Hira for
worship and that some of his companions migrated to Abyssinia, and that for ten years after his advent, the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him)
resided in Mecca and that thereafter there were all those battles that are not even mentioned in the Qur’an, simply because these facts are established by Ahadith and the Ahadith amount to nothing?
Were that so, it would not be possible for the Muslims to relate any portion of the biography of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him). It should be observed that the events of the life of our lord and master, what kind of life he led in Mecca before his advent, and in what year he called people to his Prophethood, and in what order people embraced Islam, and how were they persecuted by the disbelievers in the ten Meccan years, and how the wars began, and in which of them the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) took part himself, and to what regions the rule of Islam had extended in his lifetime, and whether he addressed letters to the rulers of the time, inviting them to Islam, and if he did so, what was their response, and after his death what were the victories achieved during the time of Hadrat Abu BakrRA, and what difficulties he had to contend with, and what countries were conquered in the time of Hadrat ‘UmarRA, all these matters are known through Ahadith and the statements of the companions of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him). If the Ahadith amount to nothing, it would not only be difficult but would be impossible to discover the events of those times and in such a case the opponents of Islam would be free to invent whatever they like concerning the events of the life of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) and of the lives of his companions, (May Allah be pleased with them). We would thus afford to the enemies of Islam a great opportunity of making baseless attacks against Islam and we would have to confess that all the events related in the Ahadith are baseless and imaginary, so much so, that even the names of the companions of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) are not known for certain. To suppose that we cannot derive any certain and conclusive truth from the Ahadith would amount to destroying a great portion of Islam with our own hands. The true and correct position is that we must accept whatever is stated in the Ahadith unless it should be opposed to the Qur’an in clear terms. It is admitted that it is natural for man to tell the truth and that recourse is had to falsehood under some compulsion, for falsehood is unnatural. To doubt the conclusiveness and correctness of the Ahadith, which through practice had become a characteristic of the different groups of Muslims, would amount to insanity. For instance, if anyone were to contend that the number of rak‘as performed by the Muslims in the five daily services is a doubtful matter, inasmuch as there is no verse in the Qur’an prescribing two rak‘as for the dawn prayer (Fajr) and two for the Friday prayer (Jumu‘ah) and two each for the two ‘Eid services and that most of the Ahadith are unreliable, would such a one be in the right? If such an opinion were accepted about the Ahadith, we would first have to forego the Prayer services, for the Qur’an has not prescribed anywhere the method of performance of Prayer services and they are performed only on the basis of the accuracy of Ahadith…. This is a serious mistake which has drawn the followers of nature in this age far away from Islam. They imagine that all Islamic practices and ceremonial and worship and biographies and history in connection with which reference is made to Ahadith, are established only on the basis of a few Ahadith. This is a clear error. The practice which the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) had established with his own hands, had become so common among millions of people that even if there had been no trace of the compilers of Ahadith, no harm would have been done. Everyone has to admit that the Holy Teacher and Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) had not so confined his teaching as to train only a few people in it and to leave all others unaware of it. Had that been so, Islam would have been so corrupted that it could not have been reformed through the efforts of any compiler of Hadith. The Imams of Ahadith have compiled thousands of Ahadith relating to religious instruction, yet there is no Hadith which was not being acted upon before its being recorded and which was not known to the world. If there is any teaching, or event, or doctrine the foundation of which has only been laid by the Imams of Hadith on the basis of some report and no sign of it is discoverable in practice, nor is it mentioned in the Holy Qur’an, then without doubt such a report which became known a century and a half later, would absolutely lack certainty and would deserve whatever condemnation might be directed at it. Such Ahadith have no great relationship with faith in the history of Islam. If you look with care you will find that the Imams of Ahadith have very seldom mentioned Ahadith no trace of which is found in practice. It is, therefore, not true, as some ignorant ones imagine, that the world has learnt of the hundreds of matters relating to the faith, even fasting and Prayer services, only from the Ahadith compiled by Bukhari and Muslim and others. Were the Muslims without faith for a century and a half? Did they not perform the Prayer services? Did they not pay Zakat? Did they not perform the Pilgrimage? Were they unaware of the Islamic doctrines that are mentioned in the
Ahadith? Certainly not.
[Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Shahadat-ul-Qur’an, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 6, pp. 298-303]
25 May, 2008 at 3:41 am
Mazhar Ahmad
Jazakallah for your time and work.
Mazhar
1 May, 2009 at 1:28 pm
ABDUL QADIR
YOU ARE LAIR AND WORST THEN NON-MUSLIM
13 February, 2012 at 8:10 am
Ibrahim
Excellent site may almighy Allah (swt) reward your efforts, you are indeed blessed to be the great great grandson of a great saint and scholar and follower of the Imam Mahdi (as).
Jazzakallah kayrun
20 February, 2012 at 4:16 pm
Mohiuddin Ovee
Mashallah, a beautiful blog….