The Attitude Of The Qadiyanis Towards Muslims

Abstract

This article analyses, from a historical and religious-studies perspective, the spread of the Qadiyani sect, which emerged in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in the village of Qadian in the Punjab province, as well as the attitude of Qadiyanism (Ahmadiyya) towards Muslims, towards the unity of the Muslim Received: 10-05-2026 community and towards the sacred values of Islam. After briefly outlining the personality, origin and stages of the claims of the founder of the sect, the article Accepted: 28-05-2026 presents evidence drawn from primary sources – in particular from works by him Published:09-06-2026 and by his sons Mahmud Ahmad and Bashir Ahmad, such as “Haqiqat al-wahy”, “Arba‘in” and “Malfuzat Ahmadiyya” – in order to demonstrate the Qadiyani practice of declaring other Muslims unbelievers, of regarding prayer behind non- Qadiyani imams as impermissible, and of pursuing a strict policy of separation in matters of marriage, funeral prayers and social relations. Using the method Copyright: © 2026 by the authors. of source-critical analysis, the article relies primarily on the internal literature Submitted for open access publication of the sect itself, together with the works “Qadiyaniyya: Study and Analysis” by under the terms and conditions of the Ihsan Ilahi Zahir and “A Community Alien to Islam” by Abdumalik To‘ychiboyev. Creative Commons Attribution As a result, it is substantiated that, although the Qadiyani movement operates (CC BY) license outwardly under the guise of Islam, in practice it constitutes an independent (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ religious community radically separated from the Muslim ummah.