Mosques of Bigots
The Light (UK), July 2010 Issue (p. 6)
Editor’s Note: Ikram, a regular writer on our Lahore Ahmadiyya blog, made the following contribution recently.
Essentially, it is the Mullahs [clerics], who are bigots or hypocrites, who just cannot tolerate message of empathy or peace for the victims of a carnage. The mosques that seed and nurture such bigotry and provide the loudspeakers and mouthpieces to such an evil ideology and the cloak of pseudo piety is well identified in Quran:
وَ الَّذِیۡنَ اتَّخَذُوۡا مَسۡجِدًا ضِرَارًا وَّ کُفۡرًا وَّ تَفۡرِیۡقًۢا بَیۡنَ الۡمُؤۡمِنِیۡنَ وَ اِرۡصَادًا لِّمَنۡ حَارَبَ اللّٰہَ وَ رَسُوۡلَہٗ مِنۡ قَبۡلُ ؕ وَ لَیَحۡلِفُنَّ اِنۡ اَرَدۡنَاۤ اِلَّا الۡحُسۡنٰی ؕ وَ اللّٰہُ یَشۡہَدُ اِنَّہُمۡ لَکٰذِبُوۡنَ ﴿۱۰۷﴾ لَا تَقُمۡ فِیۡہِ اَبَدًا ؕ لَمَسۡجِدٌ اُسِّسَ عَلَی التَّقۡوٰی مِنۡ اَوَّلِ یَوۡمٍ اَحَقُّ اَنۡ تَقُوۡمَ فِیۡہِ ؕ فِیۡہِ رِجَالٌ یُّحِبُّوۡنَ اَنۡ یَّتَطَہَّرُوۡا ؕ وَ اللّٰہُ یُحِبُّ الۡمُطَّہِّرِیۡنَ ﴿۱۰۸﴾ اَفَمَنۡ اَسَّسَ بُنۡیَانَہٗ عَلٰی تَقۡوٰی مِنَ اللّٰہِ وَ رِضۡوَانٍ خَیۡرٌ اَمۡ مَّنۡ اَسَّسَ بُنۡیَانَہٗ عَلٰی شَفَا جُرُفٍ ہَارٍ فَانۡہَارَ بِہٖ فِیۡ نَارِ جَہَنَّمَ ؕ وَ اللّٰہُ لَا یَہۡدِی الۡقَوۡمَ الظّٰلِمِیۡنَ ﴿۱۰۹﴾ لَا یَزَالُ بُنۡیَانُہُمُ الَّذِیۡ بَنَوۡا رِیۡبَۃً فِیۡ قُلُوۡبِہِمۡ اِلَّاۤ اَنۡ تَقَطَّعَ قُلُوۡبُہُمۡ ؕ وَ اللّٰہُ عَلِیۡمٌ حَکِیۡمٌ ﴿۱۱۰﴾٪
9:107. And (there are among the hypocrites) those who have built a mosque to cause harm (to Islam) and to promote disbelief and in order to cause discord among the believers, and to provide a hiding place for him who had already made war against Allah and His Messenger. And they will certainly swear (saying), ‘We meant nothing but good (in building the mosque)’. But Allah bears witness that they are certainly liars.
9:108. (Prophet!) never shall you stand in that (mosque for prayer). Certainly, the mosque which was founded upon piety (and observance of duty) from the (very) first day is more worthy that you stand (for Prayer) therein. In this (mosque) there are men (performers of Prayers) who love to become purified; and Allah loves those who purify themselves externally and internally. [Which these Bigots do not]
9:109. Is he, who founded his edifice on taking Allah as a shield and (on) His good pleasure, better or he who founded his edifice on the brink of a hollowed and crumbling water-worn bank so that it toppled along with him into the Fire of Hell? And Allah guides not the wrong doing people (to the ways of success).
9:110. This building of theirs which they have built will never cease to rankle in their hearts unless their hearts are torn to pieces (with anguish and repentance). And Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
The fact is that these Mullahs built mosque[s] to cause harm (to Islam) and out of these mosques cause discord among the believers. These mosques and madressahs provide a hiding place for him who had already made war against Allah, essentially sanctuary and nurseries for terrorists who create sectarianism, terror and destruction in the land. When asked, these Mullahs will certainly swear (saying), ‘We meant nothing but good (in building the mosque)’. But Allah bears witness that they are certainly liars.
We know that Allah loves those who purify themselves externally and internally.The world is witness that these Bigots are not the ones who purify themselves externally and internally. Their thoughts and acts reek venom. If the mosques, madressahs and Mullahs represent virtuousness then Pakistan should have been “heaven on earth” as the Land of The Pure has the highest per capita and per square mile density of such institutions.
No matter how many mosques the Bigots build, how many commit the Quran to memory, how many rituals they celebrate therein, how long beards they display, the fact of the matter as borne by sixty years of Pakistan history is that Allah guides not the wrong doing people (to the ways of success).
Suffice is to say that: This building of theirs which they have built will never cease to rankle in their hearts unless their hearts are torn to pieces (with anguish and repentance).