Mubahila - Islamic and Ahmadiyya Versions

The background to these verses is that in the year 10 A.H., a delegation of Christians from Najran came to Madina to visit Prophet Mohammad (pbuh).   They discussed Christian and Islamic teachings, especially the divinity of Jesus Christ with him.   Since they kept insisting on the divinity of Jesus, the Prophet (pbuh) following Allah's above directive, asked them to enter into a mubahila in order to determine the truth of the matter.   They asked for more time to deliberate on this. Upon the advice of the head of the delegation who felt that the Prophet of Islam was indeed truthful, they decided not to enter into a Mubahala, and agreed to live under Muslim protection.   The Prophet (pbuh) later commented that if they had entered into a Mubahala, they would have been destroyed.

The invitation of Mubahala was directed by Allah, and it was in compliance with His Command that the Holy Prophet took his direct blood relatives along with him to the field of Mubahala.   This is the only undisputed example of a Mubahila from the early Islamic history.   After this event, the Holy Prophet never challenged or responded to anyone's challenge for a Mubahila and he never advised his companions to resort to Mubahilas to resolve religious differences.   The actions of the Holy Prophet make it very clear that a Mubahila can be entered into only when commanded by Allah.   This makes sense because Allah is not a slave to anybody's perceptions.   No human being, not even a prophet of Allah, has the authority to make a commitment on behalf of Allah.   Anyone who does that trespasses Allah's domain and commits a grave sin.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and company made a mockery of the Quranic Verses of mubahila by throwing personal challenges this way and that way without following the requirements laid down in the Holy Quran.

For example:

• The requirement that the challenger commit not only his own life but also the lives of his close blood relatives was never fulfilled. MGA completely ignored the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet in this regard.

• The requirement that Mubahila can only take place under direct command of Allah was completely ignored.
  MGA issued Mubahala challenges and wanted Allah to follow his (MGA's) will.

• Face to face. Most of MGA and Comany mubahilas were not face to face.
  He issues Mubahila challenges through post, through advertisements, and many a times through vague double meaning statements that can be 'interpreted' later.

• The condition of acceptance by both parties is invoked only when it is convenient or necessary for MGA and Company.

They make their own rules on case by case basis and are not even consistent in their own self made rules.

MGA issued mubahila challenge to Dr Alexandar Dowie. Dowie publicly refused to accept the challenge. MGA still had no hesitation in claiming the death of Dowie as a fulfillment of his prophesy and a grand victory for him.

MGA issued mubahila challenge to Abdullah Atham in a public gathering. He prophesied his death within 15 months. For the next 15 months he kept repeating that Atham will die within the next 15 months of the prophesy-cum-mubahila. Atham did not die during that period. MGA refused to accept his failure and resorted to deceptive explanations.

Sanaullah of Amritsar issued a Mubahila challenge to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. MGA insisted that it must be face to face. Sanaullah came to Qudian for this purpose and stayed there fore several days but MGA did not face him. MGA subsequently issued a prayer-prophesy that the liar among two of them die in the lifetime of the other from Cholera or Plague. MGA soon died of Cholera. His followers are still trying to prove that his death was not from Cholera but was from dysentery.

MGA prophesied death of Mohammadi Begum's husband and father. Husband was to die first followed by the father. Her father died and MGA celebrated victory and declared that the husband will follow soon making Mohammadi Begum a widow and fulfilling his prophesy of marriage with a widow. Husband did not die during the lifetime of MGA.

The second Khalifa of Ahmadis, Mirza Mahmood Ahmad, refused numerous challenges of Mubahala by some well-known and devoted members of his own Jamaat when they raised accusations of moral impropriety against him. He used all of his propaganda machinery to trash their characters but never dared to accept their consistent mubahila challenges.

The fourth Khalifa of Ahmadis, Mirza Tahir Ahmad sahib, extended a general Mubahala challenge to mainstream Muslims in 1999. Ahmadis claimed victory when Pakistan's General Ziaul Haque was killed in a plane crash, although there is no evidence that he ever accepted this Mubahala .

Mirza Tahir accepted a mubahlia challenge from Molvi Sattar and died soon after that. Ahmadiyya jamaat don't want to talk about it.