Imam Chebo Cham on Friday devoted his sermon to a decision by United Democratic Party in appointing the Amir of Ahmadiya Muslim Jama’at to pray at their last weekend’s congress.
“We want to plead with UDP to come out and apologise to the Muslims,” Imam Cham said while closing his sermon.
Earlier on the Imam argued Ahmadis are not Muslims although they claim to be.
The Imam said: “Ahmadiyas are not Muslims, you can never try to make them Muslims. Scholars tell you their prayers is of no use to them, their fasting is of no use to them, their prayer call is of no use to them, their pilgrimage, their alms, are of no use to them. Why? They’re Kafir (disbelievers). They’re disbelievers.
“So you people say it’s wrong to point at some people and say ‘yes the religion of these people is this, so let’s just let them be , things will be clear at God’s (hereafter)’. You are doubting or you’re not doubting? [For us] we are not doubting [that they’re not Muslims]. We learnt something which is very compelling. We are not leaving it to your words. You cannot know more than those who spent their whole life learning La Illaha Illallah [about Islam]. Don’t you know one can learn Laa Illaha Illallah and then do or say something that will take him outside the bounds of La Illaha Illalah?
“I gave you an example of the people the Prophet’s companions fought. They had a mosque just like the Ahmadiyas. They used to say La Illaha Illallah just like the way Ahmadiyas say it. The reason why the companions of the Prophet waged a war on them because they distorted La Illaha Illallah just like the way the Ahmadiyas distorted it. Their leader Mehdi Gullah Ahmad said he makes loves with Allah.
“So it’s those people that you’re making important to the extent you’re inviting them to your events and they are praying for you? So where is your being a Muslim? So people are seeking to rule but when we give you the nation, are you going to make us Muslims or Kafir? If you say this, they say he has started again, he has started to criticise people but you do things that attract criticism. So you people want to do things that attract criticism and we should keep quiet?”
