‘Ahmadiyyas aren’t Muslims’: Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind backs AP Waqf Board

On Tuesday, twenty fifth July 2023, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind handed a decision to say that Ahmadiyyas or Qadianis should not Muslims. The high Muslim organisation in India got here forward to help Andhra Pradesh Waqf Boards that earlier handed an analogous decision in opposition to Ahmadiyyas and refused to establish them as Muslims. The union ministry for minority affairs wrote a letter to the Andhra Pradesh Waqf Board on this regard and requested who gave them the proper to subject a Fatwa in opposition to the Qadianis.

Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind stated in its decision stated that the Andhra Pradesh Waqf Board’s stance on Ahmadiyyas displays the unanimous place of the complete Muslims. Jamiat’s newest stand has are available in sharp distinction with the union ministry’s assertion on behalf of the Ahmadiyyas who’re a minority sect throughout the Muslim neighborhood.

Earlier, on Friday, July 21, 2023, taking a agency stance in opposition to the fatwa declaring Ahmadiyyas as non-Muslims, the Central Government confronted the Andhra Pradesh authorities and the Waqf Board within the state. The Ministry of Minority Affairs raised considerations concerning the non secular rights of the Ahmadiyya Muslim neighborhood and questioned the validity of the Andhra Pradesh Waqf board’s issuance of a fatwa in opposition to them.

The Ministry of Minority Affairs issued a strongly worded letter to the Andhra Pradesh authorities, condemning the Waqf Board’s decision as a hate marketing campaign with probably far-reaching ramifications nationwide.

The Ministry of Minority Affairs’ Joint Secretary, CPS Bakshi, addressed a letter to the Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh KS Jawahar Reddy, expressing disapproval over the Waqf board’s actions. He questioned the board’s authority to subject a fatwa that expels a neighborhood from Islam, emphasising that no entity ought to have the ability to strip away the non secular rights of any neighborhood.

Back in 2012, the Andhra Pradesh State Waqf Board adopted a decision declaring the complete Ahmadiyya neighborhood as non-Muslim. Subsequently, this decision confronted a authorized problem, resulting in the Andhra Pradesh High Court issuing an order for the interim suspension of the decision. The controversy escalated in February 2023 when the Andhra Pradesh Waqf Board labelled the Ahmadiyya Muslim neighborhood as infidels, citing the fatwa of Jamait ul Ulema. Furthermore, the board issued an official order designating them as non-Muslims. In response to this motion, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community lodged a proper grievance with the Ministry of Minority Affairs on twentieth July 2023, to precise their protest in opposition to the board’s resolution.

The ministry has noticed in its letter that the Andhra Pradesh Waqf Board has issued one other proclamation beneath the signature of its Chairman regardless of the High Court orders. A decision handed by the Andhra Pradesh Waqf Board in February 2023 categorically stated, “In consequence to the Fatwa of Jamiat ul Ulema, Andhra Pradesh dated May 26th, 2009, the `Qadiani community’ is proclaimed as `kafir’ and not a Muslim.”

Questioning the authority of the Waqf Board to subject such a fatwa, the central Ministry of minority affairs clarified that the Waqf Act, 1995 is the first laws for the administration and administration of Waqf properties in India and doesn’t confer any energy to State Waqf Boards to make such proclamations.