Some Beliefs of Hazrat Maulana Nur-ud-Din
His Views contradict Qadiani Beliefs
Compiled and translated by Dr. Zahid Aziz
The Light & Islamic Review (US), September/October 2000 Issue (Vol. 77, No. 5, p. 14)
We present below a selection of beliefs expressed by Hazrat Maulana Nur-ud-Din during the time that he was Head of the Ahmadiyya Movement relating to the status of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. The extracts are taken from the Ahmadiyya newspaper Badr in which they appeared at the time.
Adding the Name of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib in Darood:
Darood is the Urdu and Persian term for the Salat-un-Nabi, the prayer which Muslims frequently repeat asking that Allah may bless the Holy Prophet Muhammad and his followers (aal) as He blessed Abraham and his followers. It is reported:
“A man asked Hazrat Khalifat-ul-Masih [Maulana Nur-ud-Din] whether it was permissible to say the Darood for the Promised Messiah during the Namaz [i.e., regular Salat]. He replied:
‘You can consider the word aal as including the Imam. But you must not at all make a change in the words of the prayer; this is a strict instruction. Of course, before closing the prayer with salam, you may say any dua of your own, as much as you like and in any language you like. However, you must not, on any account, make a change in the fixed words of the Namaz.
‘Nur-ud-Din, 9 August 1908.”
(Badr, 17 September 1908, page 6)
‘Muslim’ means all Muslims:
The following brief extract appeared under the title
Those who deserve our special sympathy:
“A letter from a man was presented before Hazrat Khalifat-ul-Masih asking about the instruction in the conditions of the baiat (Pledge) to show sympathy to Muslims: Does it mean Ahmadi Muslims or non-Ahmadis as well? He replied: This means all Muslims, whether they are Ahmadis or non-Ahmadis.”
(Badr, 18 July 1912, page is unnumbered)
This shows that Maulana Nur-ud-Din directed that those Muslims who were not Ahmadis should be treated by Ahmadis as being their Muslim brethren. This is unlike and opposed to the belief, and indeed the actual practice, later established by Mirza Mahmud Ahmad in the Qadiani Jamaat that other Muslims are to be regarded as non-Muslims.
What is the ‘Second Power’ (Qudrat Saniyya)?
In his Will, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad has elaborated that after his death his community would be assisted by a second manifestation of Divine power and support, just as it was assisted by a first manifestation during his life. The Qadianis have interpreted this ‘second power’ to mean the establishment of their khilafat [caliphate]. However, the reply of Maulana Nur-ud-Din, when questioned as to what was meant by the ‘second power’, was published as follows:
“When the founder of a community is completing his work, then in order to accomplish that work the manifestation of the power of God takes place, as it says in the Holy Quran:
‘This day have I perfected for you your religion and completed My favour upon you’.
“Its manifestation took place in the time of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. But after him, this continued in the times of his khalifas [caliphs], deputies and mujaddids [reformers]. They were all the ‘second power’. The second power cannot be limited to a particular form. Whenever any nation becomes weak, then Allah the Most High, out of His wisdom, sends the second power in order to strengthen it.”
(Badr, 22 May 1913, pp. 3–4)
He does not say here that there is a chain of khalifas after Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in the Ahmadiyya Movement who are the manifestation of the second power. Rather, he says that this is Divine support for the cause of truth in a general sense. The original Urdu for the words I have translated as
“the second power cannot be limited to a particular form”
is:
قدرت ثانیہ کی حد بندی نہیں ہو سکتی
which is exactly what it conveys. Therefore, it is the Divine support that this Movement receives in various forms which is the qudrat saniyya.
Also, according to what is stated by Hazrat Maulana here, Hazrat Mirza sahib himself is a part and parcel of the ‘second power’ granted to the Holy Prophet Muhammad. Our Qadiani friends should tell us whether they believe that the second power to the Holy Prophet Muhammad is still being manifested and shall exist forever, or do they believe that it been replaced and superseded by a new second power which came after Hazrat Mirza sahib?