Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 26: Maintaining that every person has the right to identify with any religion of their choice, Gohar Fani – a prominent leader of Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Jammu and Kashmir said that no organisation or institution can deprive them of this fundamental right.
He was talking about an alleged Fatwa issued by Waqf Board of a State in India declaring that the Ahmadiyya Muslim community was not Muslim even as the Ministry of Minority Affairs intervened in the matter and made it clear that the said resolution was against the law and unconstitutional, for which the Ahmadiyya Muslim community expressed its gratitude to the concerned Ministry.
“Ahmadiyya Muslim community in India is grateful to the Ministry of Minority Affairs for denouncing the resolution that declared Ahmadis as non-Muslims. The Ministry immediately responded to our request and stated that the concerned resolution is against the law and unconstitutional,” he said.
Gohar Fani said that despite the India Constitution granting right to identify with any religion of choice, some Muslim organisations and Waqf Boards seek to undermine the religious rights of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the country.
“This is nothing but an attempt to create disorder in the peaceful atmosphere of the country and to incite people against the Ahmadiyya Muslim community,” he said and maintained that the Ahmadiyya Muslim community accepts only such a definition that has a strong basis in the Holy Quran, conforms to the sayings of the Holy Prophet and have been practised during the time of the four Rightly Guided Caliphs (Rashidun Khilafat).
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