Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad_(c._1897)

His Holiness

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

PEACE BE UPON HIM

We at Rational Religion are Ahmadi Muslims. Islam Ahmadiyya is a revivalist movement within Islam that is seeking to return Muslims to the peaceful, rational teachings of true Islam. We believe that Islam is the final and complete religion from God, perfecting the messages of the spiritual teachers before them, be they Moses, Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Socrates, Confucius, Lao Tzu, or countless others, peace be upon them.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmadpbuh, who founded the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in 1889, claimed to be a Reformer for this age, a follower-Prophet subordinate to the Prophet Muhammadpbuh. Under divine direction, his mission was to restore rational beliefs to the religious and non-religious worlds, to fix the disconnect between creation and Creator in this age, and to foster the love of humanity in the hearts of all. In little over 100 years the community is all over the globe, with tens of millions of members, and ~1/2 million new converts each year.

Why has the Ahmadiyya message resonated so well when religion is largely on the retreat around the world? Perhaps because Ahmadi Muslims…

  • Reject all forms of terrorism
  • Endorse a non-violent jihad of the pen
  • Support the separation of mosque and state
  • Support universal freedom of conscience for all (including those who leave Islam)
  • Support freedom of speech for people of all belief systems
  • Support the equal rights, education & empowerment of women
  • Believe in all the verses of the Qur’an
  • Reject all ahadith that contradict the Qur’an
  • Reject the prevailing ideas of a ‘Bloody Messiah’
  • Believe that ‘love of one’s country is part of one’s faith’ (-hadith)
  • Believe science and religion are not inherently contradictory
  • Believe that life on Earth evolved as a result of a guided process

You can find out more about some of these true Islamic teachings here.

On this section of the website, we have compiled extracts of the accounts of many converts to Islam Ahmadiyya. They are just a small sample of real stories from real people, and are well worth a read! The original accounts may be found in By the Dawn’s Early Light: Short Stories by American Converts to Islam, the Converts Stories section at whyahmadi.organd a range of YouTube media outlets.


An introduction to some convert stories