There's so much to explore in the world and religion of Islam and no matter how many videos we create
Exploring the Muslim world. We barely even scratched the surface of what can be explored
so in this episode of FTD facts
We are diving once again into the world of Islam and we're taking a look at the Ahmadiyya
Muslims and Ahmadiyya are a branch of Islam that we haven't really
Explored a lot here on FTD facts and we're taking a look at the differences between them and Shia Muslims
Who we spoken a lot more about on this channel, so welcome back to another episode of FD facts
My name is Leroy Kenton. And as I was just saying right we haven't really touched the surface of Islam
So there's a lot more to explore in this episode
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the first branch I'm going to look at is the Ahmadiyya the Ahmadiyya Ahmadi school of thought really
emphasizes the belief that Islam is the last dispensation for Humanity as
revealed to the Prophet Muhammad as well as emphasize the necessity for
Restoring the true intent and perfect form of Islam which has been lost throughout the centuries its followers
consider Ahmad who had appeared as the Mahdi who had many similarities and qualities of Jesus according to their
Prophecies in their scriptures and really they want to revitalize a whole world of Islam
Bring some new life into it and set in motion its moral system. That would really bring about lasting
Peace on the planet now when it comes to Shia Islam the distinctive
Principles and the institution of Shia Islam is the imamat now
This is a word that's used in school of thought and it comes from the word imam. That means
leadership and this teaching includes the idea that the successor of
Muhammad must be more than just a political leader
The imam also needs to be a spiritual leader of the people, which means this person has to be able to dive
deeper into the world and mysteries of the quran and be able to share that with the public Chea islam is made up of
one major school of thought and it's known as jeff area or
twelvers and there's other smaller school of thoughts like the seven errs as well as the
fibres now those names all refer to the number of Imams that they recognize
after the passing of the Prophet Mohammed the term Shia is also used synonymously with Jeff area or
twelvers also now diving a little bit more into Ahmadiyya Islam
It's said that this branch of Islam is not a new religion at all
They say that the Ahmadiyya is a movement inside of Islam entirely
it doesn't deviate from Islam and it's meant to revive the spirit and
philosophy and cleanse Islam of all sorts of unnecessary beliefs and customs and different
Superstitions and stuff that they've practiced for years on end as well as they're really focusing on
preaching the true religion of Islam to non-muslims with a lot of excitement and enthusiasm
Like early Muslims used to do the Ahmadiyya movement inside of Islam was founded by mirza
ghulam ahmed of qaeda and india in
1889 and the followers of mirza
ghulam ahmed really believed that he was the same messiah who was
Prophesied by the holy prophet muhammad and all muslims were to look forward to his arrival his followers call themselves. Ahmadi muslims
only to differentiate themselves from members of other Islamic branches and they also claim to follow the
Orthodox religion of Islam. So Ahmadi Islam is not as big as she is LOM
There's approximately 4 million Ahmad 'is that live in Pakistan?
Which has the largest population of amantes in the world now, excluding some other smaller nations the country with the largest
proportion of
Muslim is Ghana and that sits at 16 percent of the country's total
Percentage of the population then there's Sierra Leone where it sits at 8 percent
so this population is not a massive population and it's almost entirely contained into a single organized and
United movement and it's commonly referred to as the Ahmadiyya Muslim community or the AMC and this is headed by the
Khalifa the other community is the Lahore Ahmadiyya movement and this is a separatist group which throughout history
Has significantly failed to attract a larger following and they represent only 0.2% of the Ahmadiyya
population now when we dive into a little bit more of their beliefs for Shia Muslims
They believe in the five pillars of Islam or more commonly translated to the five principles of the religion
And these are the five fundamental principles of Islam now these pillars vary from this Sunni Islam pillars
Who Shias simply believe are just important?
obligations to follow rather than being the pillars of the Islamic faith as the Sunnis believe but in any case the five pillars of
Shia Islam are as follows the oneness of God
Which is known as a tar weed the Justice of God the OTO as well as a prophethood known as the Nebra
The leadership of mankind which is ammama and the resurrection the me odd in the country of Iran Shia
Muslims make up the majority and a total 95 percent of all the Muslims in the entire country and real quick just before I continue
with this episode
I'm just letting you know that we do have a dedicated playlist of videos that we've done about the religion of Islam
we'd have a lot more into different branches or as a
History and some of the customs and the beliefs so you'll learn a lot when you watch this playlist. It's packed with videos
I highly recommend it. I'll have the link down below in the video description box
I'll also link to it in the card section of this
Episode as well as I'll have a link to it at the end of this episode
so if you watch those videos and you're still looking for some topics about Islam that you want to learn about that you haven't seen
Already, maybe just leave a suggestion down below if we're working on already. We'll take a look at your suggestions and
Definitely do a video about it. So I've looked at some of the differences between shiahs and
Alma Diaz, but now when it comes to the big differences, they're basically three
beliefs held by Ahmadiyya Muslims that completely separate them from
Sunnis and Shias and these three beliefs are the finality of
Muhammad's prophethood
Jesus Christ's ascension to heaven and the identity of the promised Messiah
So what are these beliefs actually entail when you break them down?
So when we look at the finality of Muhammad's prophethood in verse 41 of surah al-ahzab
the Prophet Muhammad was given the title of
khatamun nabiyeen
Which is the seal of the prophets a majority of Muslim interpret this to mean that Muhammad was
Labeled as a last prophet and no new prophet can come after him now according to our Madea
Muslims the expression of the seal of the prophets does not mean that the holy
Prophets are gonna stop and then this is the last prophet
However, they look at the seal as a mark or a distinction in this case. It applies to a
Perfection of the prophethood on madea's believe that prophets will continue to pop up
however
a newer prophet after the Prophet Muhammad must be a follower of his and must be from within the
Culture and religion of Islam now when it comes to the belief of Jesus ascending to heaven the main belief in Islam
Is that Jesus was not put on the cross and that his place was taken
By someone who looked like him and Jesus according to their belief was
Physically raised up to heaven Ahmadiyya Muslims believe that Jesus was actually put on the cross but only for a few hours
and they believe that
Jesus after recovering from his injuries
traveled to the east to Kashmir where he died a natural death and remains buried in a tomb and the final main difference is
identity of the promised Messiah
So there's a majority of the Muslim world that believes that Jesus himself will return one day as the Messiah
However, Ahmadiyya Muslims believe that since Jesus has already died
it can only be someone else who can appear as the
Messiah and Amma Diaz believed that the promised Messiah has already come in the person of hazrat mirza
ghulam ahmed alaa islam of kadian
So these are the main
Differences between our madea's as well as the other muslims Shias
Sunnis as you can tell these two school of thoughts have some completely
Conflicting views it looks like anyways
see, do you believe that these two different school of thoughts can actually be reconciled into one common belief is there some
Misinterpretation do you believe that the Messiah has come already? Let me know down below in the comment section
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