The entire Muslim Ummah is unanimous in declaring the Qadianis to be outside the fold of Islam, due to their sacrilegious beliefs. Yet, the Qadianis insist that despite their corrupted creed, they should be considered Muslims. They use unsubstantiated arguments to assert that in Islam, no one can be declared a disbeliever or kafir. What is interesting, though, is that their own beliefs contradict this assertion. Mirza Qadiani and his followers have indeed declared around 2 billion Muslims of the world as kafirs, because they do not consider Mirza to be a prophet of Allah ﷻ.
Tazkirah is a book which the Qadianis believe to be divinely revealed. On its page 513, Mirza Qadiani’s verdict is clear:
Allah SWT revealed to me that any individual who receives my message and does not accept it is not a Muslim.
Tazkira Majmoo’a Wahi wa Ilhaamaat, 4th printing, p. 519
He also writes in his book Anjaam Aatham:
My adversary is consigned to hellfire.
Anjaam Aatham, Roohani Khazain, vol. 11, pg. 62
But Mirza Qadiani goes even further, hurling profanities at non-Ahmadis. In Aaina Kamalaat e Islam, Roohani Khazain, Vol 5 pp. 547-548, he writes:
Every Muslim [i.e. Qadiani] adores my books, and benefits from the lessons therein, and affirms and accepts my message, except for the progeny of prostitutes who do not believe in me.
Aa’eena Kamaalaat: Roohani Khazain, vol. 5, pp. 547-548
Later Qadiani leadership has asserted the same viewpoint to declare anyone who does not accept Mirza Qadiani to be a prophet as a kafir.
Mirza Qadiani’s elder son, Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood, who remained the spiritual head of the Qadiani Jamaat for 50 years, writes in his book, Aainah e Sadaqat:
All Muslims who did not pledge allegiance to Mirza Qadiani, even if they may have never heard his name, are kafir and outside the fold of Islam.
Aa’ina Sadaaqat: Anwaar ul Uloom, vol. 6, p. 110
In Kitab Anwaar, page 90, he writes:
It is obligatory for us to consider non-Ahmadis as non-Muslims.
Anwaar e Khilafat: Anwaar ul Uloom, vol. 3, p. 148
That is, according to Mirza Mahmood, just as Prayers, Fasting, and Zakat are obligatory in Islam, and their denial makes one a kafir, likewise, affirming that all Muslims are kafir itself is obligatory, because they do not believe in Mirza’s prophethood. To not consider Muslims as kafir renders one a kafir himself, according to Qadiani belief!
Mirza Qadiani’s second son, Mirza Bashir Ahmad, further clarifies this creed, in his book, Kalimatul Fasl:
Anyone who believes in Musaؑ but does not believe in Isaؑ, or one who believes in Isaؑ but not in Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, or one who believes in Prophet Muhammad ﷺ but not in the Promised Messiah (Mirza Ghulam Ahmad) is not only a kafir, but a staunch kafir and outside the fold of Islam.
Kalimat ul Fasl, p. 112
This verdict by Mirza Bashir is clear: One who believes in all prophets till the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, and follows every injunction of Islam, but does not believe Mirza Qadiani to be a prophet, is a non-Muslim, just as the Jews and the Christians are non-Muslims.
It is quite clear from these edicts that the Qadiani Jamaat considers all Muslims worldwide as kafir just for the reason that they do not believe in the prophethood of Mirza Qadiani.
And it is not just this that the Qadianis consider Muslims as kafir, but they also mandate social ostracization of Muslims. Mirza Bashir Ahmad writes in Kalimat ul Fasl page 169 – 170:
Hazrat Maseeh Mawood (Mirza Qadiani) has made permissible only those relations with non-Ahmadis that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ allowed with Christians.
Kalimat ul Fasl, pp. 169-170
Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood forbids praying the funeral of even Muslim children, writing in Anwaar Khilafat page 93:
Just like praying the funeral of a non-Ahmadi (Muslim) is not allowed, likewise, praying the funeral of their children is also not allowed, for this is similar to praying the funeral of a Hindu child.
This is why Pakistan’s first Foreign Minister, Zafar Ullah Khan, who was a Qadiani, did not pray the funeral of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. When asked, he famously stated,
You may consider me the Muslim minister of an infidel government, or the infidel minister of a Muslim government.
Zamindar, Lahore, 1950
Today, the Qadianis are complaining about being declared non-Muslims, arguing that no one has the right to decide anyone’s faith. Yet, since over a hundred years ago, their own religious leadership has been consistently calling all Muslims kafir, just for believing in the finality of the Prophethood of our beloved Prophet Muhammad, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ﷺ.
