Intro
In 1914, Hafiz Bashir Ahmad Misri was born in Qadian in 1914.

In the 1920’s, his father was Sheikh Abdur Rehman Misri, who was a high-ranking Qadiani-Ahmadi-Imam in those days, in fact, he would sometimes serve as in-charge of Qadian when the Khalifa would be out of town.

In 1932-1936, Bashir Ahmad Misri tells the world that when was 18 (1932) he was invited into the Khalifa’s inner circle of sex with boys and drugs. Bashir Ahmad Misri is living with the stigma of knowing that the Mirza family was fake and fraudulent. We are unsure when he told his father about the homosexual/pedophilia filled life of the Khalifa.

In 1936, he was the Ahmadi who accused Mahmud Ahmad of sex crimes in Qadian in the 1936-37.

In 1937, Bashir Ahmad Misri and his friends (Fakhr ud Din Multani was murdered, he died a few days later) were attacked in broad day light in Qadian on Saturday, 08-07-1937, around 4:30 pm at the time of Asr prayers. This led to his family asking for government and Muslim (the Ahrar’s) protection from the Mirza family. They seem to have moved to Lahore in late 1937.

In 1938, Bashir Ahmad Misri obtained his B.A. in Arabic from the Government College University, Lahore in 1938.

In 1940, his father (Sheikh Abdur Rehman Misri) was hired as an Imam for the Lahori-Ahmadi’s. However, Bashir Ahmad Misri joined Sunni-Islam in 1940 and moved to East Africa, wherein he seems to have worked as a teacher.

In 1941, The ROR of Feb-1941 mentions the Misri Party and they objected to the luxurious life of the 2nd Khalifa.

From 1940 to 1961, he converts to Sunni Islam and moves to Africa to work. During his 20 years stay in East Africa, he was the Headmaster of the largest Secondary school there, and also held secretarial and presidential posts on religious, social and educational organizations among African, Asian and European communities.

In 1961, he was allowed to move to London. A few years later, the Lahori-Ahmadi’s hired him to be an editor. It seems that Bashir Ahmad Misri was planning to make friends with the Lahori-Ahmadi’s and then to turn on them at an opportune time.

In 1964, he became the Imam of the Woking Mosque.

In 1968 (Jan), the struggle to its conversion to Sunni Muslims started in January 1968 by setting a Woking Mosque Regeneration Committee ,comprising Khalid Hussain Qamar (Woking), Moulana Habibur Rehman UK Islamic Mission ( Manchester), Allama Khalid Mehmood (executive director Manchester Mosque), Editor of Faran Magezine (Leicester), and Gondal( Reading). The committee wished to see High Commissioner of Pakistan , who was officially President of Registered Trust responsible for affairs of the Mosque, but all in vain for nine months. The state of the Mosque was miserable as there was no place for abolution, or taharat. There were no five times prayer established in the Mosque. Only on Sundays the Imam use to deliver a sermon to non Muslim visitors over a cup of tea. The Islamic Review magazine was regularly published from Shah Jehan Mosque as the only Muslim Organ under Editorship of Moulana Majeed Ahmad and Imam Hafiz BASHIR Ahmad Misri. Khalid Hussain Qamar started Quran Nazira lessons to 80 children of Sunni Muslims of Woking voluntarily with kind permission of the Imam in January 1968.

In 1968, (Jul) his plan was in motion, he organized the local Muslim’s and wrestled control of the mosque from the Lahori-Ahmadi’s to the local Muslim scholars. He them left and went on a tour.

In 1968 (Nov), because of this permission, the Ahmadiyyah Movement terminated Hafiz Bashir Ahmed as Imam. Hafiz BASHIR Ahmad Misri, while leaving for Uganda authorised Khalid Hussain Qamar for arranging Traveeh Prayer during Ramadan first time ever in the history of the Mosque. Khalid Hussain Qamar (Woking), Chaudhary BASHIR Ahmad(Woking), and Raja Muhammad Asghar (Woking) availed this opportunity to install a new Imam for leading Traveeh Prayer while Hafiz BASHIR Ahmed Misri moved to Uganda as terminated Imam. Forceful capture of Mosque’s Residence and Mosque itself for prayers during Ramadan 1968 was beginning of Sunni Era of usage of the Mosque. That reached as blowing news to staff of Pakistan High Commissioner. Col Nazir Ahmed Dence Attachee and Haroon High Commissioner shown their concern about this possession. After one week of consistent request of the High Commissioner, Khalid Hussain Qamar along with local Muslims asked Col Nazir to visit them in the Mosque to resolve the issue. Woking Muslims presented the case that Mosque is to be natural worshipping place for local Muslims and therefore should be run along the wishes of local Muslims. Col Nazir agreed and requested the audience, let the High Commissioner offer them list of possible next Imams for their choice and High Commissioner could restore the official responsibility. So the First ever Sunni Imam (an employee of High Commissioner) Khawaja Qamar-Ud-Din took the charge as First Sunni Imam in December 1968. Since then the Mosque is in possession of Sunni Muslims.

In 1979, his father (Sheikh Abdur Rehman Misri) died as a Lahori-Ahmadi in Pakistan.

In 1987, he wrote “Islamic Concern for Animals” (Compassion in World Farming Trust, 1987).

In 1989, Bashir Ahmad Misri then responded to Mirza Tahir Ahmad’s global Mubahila challenge in 1989 and wrote about his youth in Qadian. He also wrote “Animals in Islam” (Compassion in World Farming Trust, 1989).

In 1992, he died.

 


_____________________________________________________________________________________________1914

Bashir Ahmad Misri is born in Qadian.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________1932

In 1989, Bashir Ahmad Misri tells the world that when was 18 (1932) he was invited into the Khalifa’s inner circle of sex with boys and drugs.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________1932–July 1937

Bashir Ahmad Misri is living with the stigma of knowing that the Mirza family was fake and fraudulent. We are unsure when he told his father about the homosexual/pedophilia filled life of the Khalifa.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________August 1937

Fukhr ud Din Multani, Bashir Ahmad Misri and one other Ex-Ahmadi are attacked in broad daylight in Qadian. Multani ended up dying a few days later in the hospital.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________September 1937

Shaikh Abdur Rahman Misri asks for government-police and Muslim (the Ahrar’s) protection from the Mirza family. They seem to have moved to Lahore in late 1937. His father was hired as an Imam for the Lahori-Ahmadi’s.
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1941

The ROR of Feb-1941 mentions the Misri Party and they objected to the luxurious life of the 2nd Khalifa.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________1940–1961

He converts to Sunni Islam and moves to Africa to work. During his 20 years stay in East Africa, he was the Headmaster of the largest Secondary school there, and also held secretarial and presidential posts on religious, social and educational organizations among African, Asian and European communities.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________1961

He settled in England and for six years was Joint-Editor of the monthly magazine “The Islamic Review.”
______________________________________________________________________________________________1964

Someway and somehow, he got appointed as an Imam at famous Lahori-Ahmadi managed mosque in the Woking. This may have been due to the fact that his dad was still a Lahori-Ahmadi. Bashir Ahmad Misri worked behind the scenes as Imam and was able to snatch control from the Lahori-Ahmadis and handing over control of the mosque to local Sunni leaders. This broke Lahorism, the Lahori-Ahmadis never recovered and have been withering away ever since, further, there weren’t many Lahori-Ahmadis in the world at that point anyway.  However, the Lahori-Ahmadis had control of mosques, they even built the first ever mosque in Germany. The irony here, is that while Bashir Ahmad Misri’s father (Sheikh Abdur Rehman Misri,) was serving as an Imam for the Lahori-Ahmadis in Pakistan, his son was snatching and destroying the Lahori-Ahmadis altogether. The October 1964 issue of The Islamic Review is possibly the first in which his name is given as Joint Editor(see page 6).
_____________________________________________________________________________________________1964–1967

He was the Imam of the Woking mosque up until roughly July of 1968.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________January 1968

The struggle to its conversion to Sunni Muslims started in January 1968 by setting a Woking Mosque Regeneration Committee ,comprising Khalid Hussain Qamar (Woking), Moulana Habibur Rehman UK Islamic Mission ( Manchester), Allama Khalid Mehmood (executive director Manchester Mosque), Editor of Faran Magezine (Leicester), and Gondal( Reading). The committee wished to see High Commissioner of Pakistan , who was officially President of Registered Trust responsible for affairs of the Mosque, but all in vain for nine months. The state of the Mosque was miserable as there was no place for abolution, or taharat. There were no five times prayer established in the Mosque. Only on Sundays the Imam use to deliver a sermon to non Muslim visitors over a cup of tea. The Islamic Review magazine was regularly published from Shah Jehan Mosque as the only Muslim Organ under Editorship of Moulana Majeed Ahmad and Imam Hafiz BASHIR Ahmad Misri. Khalid Hussain Qamar started Quran Nazira lessons to 80 children of Sunni Muslims of Woking voluntarily with kind permission of the Imam in January 1968.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________July 1968

On the 20th July 1968, he called a meeting of all the Muslim Organisations in the UK and Eire, at the East London Mosque. It was attended by more than a hundred delegates. He explained the situation to them that I was due to start on my tour by the end of the year and that Mirzais were trying their best to have their own Imam installed.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________November 1968

Because of this permission, the Ahmadiyyah Movement terminated Hafiz Bashir Ahmed as Imam. Hafiz BASHIR Ahmad Misri, while leaving for Uganda authorised Khalid Hussain Qamar for arranging Traveeh Prayer during Ramadan first time ever in the history of the Mosque. Khalid Hussain Qamar (Woking), Chaudhary BASHIR Ahmad(Woking), and Raja Muhammad Asghar (Woking) availed this opportunity to install a new Imam for leading Traveeh Prayer while Hafiz BASHIR Ahmed Misri moved to Uganda as terminated Imam. Forceful capture of Mosque’s Residence and Mosque itself for prayers during Ramadan 1968 was beginning of Sunni Era of usage of the Mosque. That reached as blowing news to staff of Pakistan High Commissioner. Col Nazir Ahmed Dence Attachee and Haroon High Commissioner shown their concern about this possession. After one week of consistent request of the High Commissioner, Khalid Hussain Qamar along with local Muslims asked Col Nazir to visit them in the Mosque to resolve the issue. Woking Muslims presented the case that Mosque is to be natural worshipping place for local Muslims and therefore should be run along the wishes of local Muslims. Col Nazir agreed and requested the audience, let the High Commissioner offer them list of possible next Imams for their choice and High Commissioner could restore the official responsibility. So the First ever Sunni Imam (an employee of High Commissioner) Khawaja Qamar-Ud-Din took the charge as First Sunni Imam in December 1968. Since then the Mosque is in possession of Sunni Muslims.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________1969–1989

He seems to have totally went missing from the records.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________1979

His father (Sheikh Abdur Rahman Misri) dies in Pakistan. He was a leading scholar and prolific writer of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________1989

He accepts the global Mubahila Challenge of Mirza Tahir Ahmad and writes about Ahmadiyya and his youth. He explains how the Khalifa preyed on him sexually starting in 1932, which culminated in the death of Fakhr ud Din Multani.

____________________________________________________________________________________________ Pope of Rabwah

“”””On 6th August 1937, Khalifa Saheb delivered his last sermon on Friday in which his followers and warriors were roused pointing towards these persons (Multani, Bashir Masri etc.). The very next day on Saturday 7 August, around 4.30 pm at the time of Asr prayers Maulana Fakhruddin Saheb Multani, Hakeem Abdul Aziz Saheb and Hafiz Bashir Ahmad Masri Saheb (son of Shaikh Abdur Rehman Masri), all three were going towards police station, about 100 yards from the police station they were attacked by a sharp-edged weapon. This sharp-edged weapon went through the rib cage of Fakhruddin Saheb Multani and punctured his lung. Then Hakeem Abdul Aziz Saheb also received serious wounds on the mouth and cheeks through the same weapon.” (Pope of Rabwah p.52 by Mohammed Mazharuddin Multani)”“”

“”””Fakhruddin Multani was attacked in broad daylight and he was lying bleeding wriggling with pain at the gate of Khalifa’s Palace, but no one dared to attend him. Later some Muslims from Majlis-e-Ahrar (a Muslim organization dedicated to exposing the fraud of Ahmadiyyat) heard the news and they came and took the injured persons to Gurdaspur Hospital. Fakhruddin Multani died in the hospital on 13th August 1937. Amongst the 1000 Ahmadis living around the scene of crime, none could find the courage to give evidence against the culprits. Dr. Gurbakhsh Singh MBBS had his clinic in the same bazaar and he was an eyewitness of this incident. Although he was given lot of financial enticement, but the glitter of money could him stop him from giving evidence of the truth. Upon his evidence, Aziz Ahmad Qadiani was given capital punishment. Mirza Mehmud, 2nd Khalifa, offered his funeral prayer with great pomp, and labeled him a martyr of Ahmadiyyat. (Pope of Rabwah p.52 by Mohammed Mazharuddin Multani)“””
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Masri was born in Qadian and obtained his B.A. in Arabic from the Government College University, Lahore in 1938.[2] He spent 20 years in East Africa (1941–1961) working as a school headmaster. He moved to England in 1961 and was joint-editor of the Islamic monthly magazine, The Islamic Review for six years. In 1964, he was the first Sunni Muslim to be appointed Imam of Shah Jahan Mosque.[3] He retired from Shah Jehan Mosque in 1968.[4]

Masri was involved with animal welfare organizations and spent three years touring many countries to gain knowledge of Islamic culture. He has been cited as a pioneer of animal welfare activism in Islam who has strengthened Muslim understandings of Islamic obligations to animal welfare.[5] He worked with the World Society for the Protection of Animals and Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) who asked him to write about Islam and animal welfare.[4][5] He was the first Muslim to write on animal experimentation and Islam for the International Association Against Painful Experiments on Animals (IAAPEA).[4] Masri delineated four principles for the advocacy of animals in Islam: All nonhuman animals are a trust from God; equigenic rights do exist and must be maintained; all nonhuman animals live in communities; all nonhuman animals possess personhood.[6]

Mari’s 1989 book Animals in Islam was republished by Lantern Books in 2022.[4] His 2007 book Animal Welfare in Islam has been cited as espousing semi-vegetarianism. Masri noted that “Islam has left the option of eating meat to one’s discretion” but praised vegetarianism for its ethical virtues.[7] Masri criticized the consumption of animal products that come from factory farms and the Westernised meat industry as being unethical due to the amount of suffering involved and suggested that if Muslims were informed about the gruesome details of factory farming they would “become vegetarians rather than eat such sacrilegious meat”.[1][8][9]

Masri argued that if Muhammad was alive today he would not approve of the modern cruel methods of intensive animal farming and he would condemn those who practice such methods, in the same way he condemned similar cruelties in his day.[10]

Selected publications

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Bashir Ahmad Misri and Ahmadiyya – ahmadiyyafactcheckblog

Bashir Ahmad Misri and Ahmadiyya


The Bane of Mirza-iyaat by Hafiz Bashir Ahmad Masri (1989)

Many of my friends requested me repeatedly to express my views about Mirzais in the light of my personal experiences, just to bring the matter on record. It is not possible here to go into details. A full account would need a book of great volume. This short article, therefore, contains only a synoptic record of the events which led to my denunciation of this heterodoxical and hypocritical creed.

I was born in Qadian in 1914 – an unfortunate accident of birth which has been hanging round my neck like an albatross throughout the 73 years of my life. As a child I was indoctrinated into believing that the rest of the Muslims were nonbelievers (kaafirs) – so much so that even belief in God and in Islam was conditional to belief in Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (the founder of this movement) as a prophet and, after him, belief in his successors as the so-called Khalifas of Islam.

However, as I grew up, I found around me a society which was, by and large, insidiously fraudulent. Of course, there were a few elderly people among them who had joined the Movement during the early period of its inception in good faith, under the misconception that it was a genuine ‘Reform Movement’ within Islam. Such sincere and faithful few, however, were either too simple-minded to notice what was going on around them or were totally helpless to do anything about it..

As a teenager, I was not capable of grasping mentally the significance of the theological sabotage, which this Movement had started committing on Islam. My initial reaction against these people was on moral and ethical grounds. It was at this stage of mental and spiritual immaturity that fate decided to throw me into the furnace of infernal fire, as if to test my metal.

I was a healthy and athletic young man of man of about 18 when I received a message from the then Head (Khalifah) that he wanted to see me for some confidential matter. That was the period when I held this man as a demigod and, naturally, felt greatly honoured by the invitation. I just guessed that he wanted to assign to me some religious errand of a confidential nature.

This first meeting remained very formal – the Khalifah asking me various personal questions and I answering them with all the due respect. I was ‘commanded’ not to tell anyone about our meeting and was given an appointment for the next. The subsequent meetings however became informal, leading up to an invitation to join an ‘Inner Circle’.

This ‘demigod’ was in reality running a secret circle of fornication, adultery, incest and general debauchery. For this, he had organised a clique of pimps and procuresses. Most of the young man and women who were seduced were selected from such families as were economically dependent or fanatically brain-washed and for various other reasons, were incapable of putting up any resistance. There were occasional cases of defiance, but they were easily silenced by the weapons of boycott, excommunication, systemic vilification and ostracism.

The Mirza Family was not only the spiritual head of the community but was also the owner of most of the land in and around the town of Qadian, as Feudal Lords. Apart from religious alliance there was no security of the tenure of land for those families who had burned their boats to settle in the so-called ‘sacred precincts’ of Qadian. Under such circumstances it was unthinkable in those days for any one to fight back. Quite a few of those who did try to revolt met with apparently accidental deaths or simply vanished in thin air without trace. While all this was going on, Muslim theologians, in their naivety, thought that they could defeat Mirzaiyat on the debating platforms and only by doctrinal arguments.

The first effect on me, after coming in contact with these dregs of vice, was that of stuporous helplessness. I still remember many a wakeful night when I used too wet my pillow with silent tears. I could not tell my parents, not being sure whether they would believe me. Neither could I discuss it with my friends for fear of being betrayed. One easy way out for me could have been to leave Qadian and disappear. This would have, however, meant discontinuation of my studies in the University. Also, there was the sense of responsibility that I should not desert my parents, leaving them in ignorance of this filth.

There were times when the idea of putting an end to all this by murdering the perpetrator of this pious fraud would become very tempting. However, even at that immature age, logic prevailed. Firstly, I reasoned that it would be misunderstood by the society at large as an act of a religious fanatic and this man will go down in history as a martyr. Secondly, I thought, a quick sudden death for a man like him would be a boon instead of a chastisement which he deserved, not only for committing these atrocities but for committing them in the name of God and religion. The subsequent events proved my reasoning right. He was later crippled by paralysis ad died a miserably lingering death. A doctor who attended him during his protracted illness told me that, during the last stages, he had become a mental imbecile, babbling filthy obscenities.

In addition to all these considerations, there was another reason why I thought any direct action would be futile. I had come to realise that this corruption would not end by this man’s death. It was not only this one man who had turned into a sex maniac. His brothers and most of the other members of the Mirza Family were no better. Even the elite order in this community’s religious hierarchy, holding responsible positions under the camouflage of flowing beards, had their own ‘enclaves of depravity’, with the tacit understanding among them: “you don’t ruffle my beard and I won’t yours”. As a matter of fact, in the Establishment of this organisation, only those were promoted to high positions who had fallen in line with this family’s lifestyle – the family who they have the audacity of calling ‘the prophet’s family’. It was not surprising that the news of such amorous licentiousness spread around from mouth to mouth and play-boys from rich families started joining this ‘Reform Movement’ to seek freedom from the strictures of the then sexual discipline of the Asian culture, and so on…..

Since my alienation from the Khalifah’s ‘inner circle’, my life had been constantly in danger. His mafia-like thugs started shadowing me. In desperation, I decided to take the bull by the horns, went to the Khalifah and showed him a long letter in which I had recorded all the details of his private life with names, dates, facts and figures. I told him that sealed copies of that letter had been deposited with some persons in authority, instructing them to open the letters only in case if my death or disappearance. From then on, I felt safe and walked about freely in the streets of Qadian.

The more I saw of this corruption the more I became sick of religion, one and all, till ultimately I ended up as an atheist. This morbid phase of my life, however, left a spiritual vacuum with which I could not cope on my own, and I had to tell my father. It came to him as a great shock. Naturally, he could not accept the word of a young boy without corroboration and started making discreet inquiries. It did not take him long to be convinced that I was telling the truth.

My father wrote a very long letter to this so-called Khalifah, asking him for an explanation of his conduct and demanding his abdication. There was no reply, but two reminders afterwards, the Khalifah declared that Shaikh Abdul-Rehman Masri (my father) and all members of his family had been expelled and excommunicated. These three letters were later published in India .

This excommunication in practice meant complete boycott and social dissociation. Our lives were so much in danger that the Government had to detail twenty-four hours guard of military police around our house. No member of our family could go out without a police escort. In spite of all such precautions, I and two of my companions were attacked in broad daylight in the bazaar. One elderly companion was stabbed in the chest and died. The other was stabbed in the neck and shoulder and had to remain in hospital for quite a long period. I managed to fight back and succeeded in giving such a blow on the skull of my assailant with a cudgel, which I was carrying, that he started bleeding. The wounded assailant was whisked away to a hiding place by his accomplices, but the police caught up with him by following the blood drops from his skull. He was later founded guilty of murder and hanged. Such was the flagrant disdain of law and order in Qadian that the murderer’s funeral service was held with great pomp and show, the Khalifah himself leading the prayer.

After this incident a Muslim organisation known as ‘Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam’, started sending squads of volunteers to guard our house, in addition to the military police. They pitched their tents in the open fields around our bungalow, which started looking like a besieged fortress.

The Mirzai Administration started involving my father in trumped-up court cases to discredit his high repute for uprightness, as well as to drain his meagre savings. In short, all sorts of dirty tricks were played to make life impossible for him. To support his family with eleven children, he had to sell the family jewellery and chattel. The most unfortunate of these disasters which befell our family during this period was the setback to the education of children. All the details of these attacks and persecution used to be published in Indian Press.

There was a great pressure on our family, both from the Government and others to leave Qadian and we ultimately migrated to Lahore . My father joined the Lahori Party. Although there is not much difference between their beliefs and those of Qadianis, at least their society was not riddled with moral corruption. I, however, kept myself unattached. As I have said earlier, I had lost faith in the very institution of religion. However during this period I started coming in contact with the leaders of Ahrar, who had a profound effect on me. Among them were Sayed Ataullah Shah Bukhari, Maulana HabiburRehman Ludhianvi, Chaudhari Afzal Haque, Maulana Mazhar Ali Azhar – I found these people devout Muslims and very sincere friends.

My father had accepted my atheism only with ostensible resignation. While at heart he was very unhappy about it. He told me that he prayed for me regularly and used to ask me to seek God’s guidance through prayer. My answer to that used to be that he was asking me to pray to a Being who did not exist. Finally after lengthy discussions, he started advising me to make my prayers conditional and started to pray in words such as: “God if you exist, give me some indication of it; otherwise if per chance you do exist don’t blame me for not believing in You……”

Although this kind of prayer might sound blasphemous to the real believers, it produced esoteric results for me. Within about a year of praying. I saw two dreams in quick succession. Since they are very much of a personal and subjective nature, I dare not relate them here. Suffice it to say that they especially the second dream, were of long duration, very explicit and coherent. Even for a sinful man like me there remained no room for doubt that there did exist a Supreme Being whom we call God or Allah, I may mention though that in the concluding part of the dream I was shown the Mirzai Khalifah as a depraved miscreant with a heinously tarred face.

After these dreams I felt much relieved. It seemed as if my spiritual crisis was over. I decided to turn a new leaf and become a Muslim formally. The late Sayyed Ataullah Shah Bukhari took me along to Maulana Mohammed Ilyas (the founder of the Tablighi Jamaat ) in a village called Mehroli, a few miles from Delhi . There, in 1940, I took my oath of fealty to Islam (Bai’at) at his hand. It was a blissful coincidence that the Sheikh al Hadith of India Maulana Muhammed Zakariyah also happened to be present, after the sunset (Maghirib) prayers, led by Maulana Ilyas, all the congregation of about 40 worshippers said a special prayer for me.

In 1941 migrated to East Africa with the mixed feelings of relief and guilt. Standing on the deck of the steamer in the Bombay harbor, I stated reciting under my breath the following Quranic Verse: “And what reason have you not to fight for the cause of Allah to help those weak men and women who are crying out: Our Lord take us out of this town whose people are oppressors”. (Al Nisa 4:75)

After 20 years stay in Africa I migrated to England in 1961.

THE IMAMATE IN WOKING

In 1964 I was appointed as the Imam of the Shah Jehan Mosque in Woking , England . This appointment calls for some explanation for record. This mosque was built by an orientalist, Dr. Leitner in 1889 with funds from Muslims in India and later, a Trust was formed to run it. That was the period when Mirzaiyat had not shown itself fully in its true colours and the Trust readily agreed to hand over the management of the mosque to the Lahori section of this Movement

By nineteen sixties quite a few Muslim Organisations had established themselves in the United Kingdom and the pressure started increasing for this Mosque to be reverted to its originally intended position of an Islamic Center. I was approached by the Secretary and the Treasurer of the Trust to accept the Imamate. I made it clear to them that I was a Sunni Muslim and showed them copies of some published articles, which I had written against Mirzaiyat. They told me that they were aware of my views and that they considered it as an asset. They also assured me that the High Commissioner of Pakistan, who was the ex-officio Chairman of the Trust and who would sign the letter of my appointment, had given his blessings.

After taking charge of the Mosque, it soon became obvious to me that I was being branded by the general Muslims as a Mirzai. For the last about three-quarters of a century there had been a successive line of Mirzai Imams. Muslims could not believe that all of a sudden a Sunni Imam would appear out of the blue, I found myself falling between two stools. My theological differences with both the Lahori and the Qadiani sections were irreconcilable; while the Muslims took it for granted that I must be a Mirzai, otherwise I would not have been appointed. It took me long to win over the trust of some Muslim religious leaders in the UK.

It had been my life long ambition to tour the Islamic countries by car, so that I could travel even into the rural areas and study first hand how they were transacting their religious affairs in practice. (This tour took me about three years covering 45,000 miles in more than 40 countries). Before leaving the Mosque however, I wanted to make sure that this far-famed Mosque and the Islamic Center remained in the Muslim hands permanently. There were only two or three Mirzai members on the Board of Trustees, but they were very active and wielded a great influence. They were leaving no stone unturned to bring back a Mirzai Imam after I had left.

After long discussions and consultations with my Muslim friends, I called a meeting of all the Muslim Organisations in the UK and Eire , on the 20thJuly 1968 , at the East London Mosque. It was attended by more than a hundred delegates. I explained the situation to them that I was due to start on my tour by the end of the year and that Mirzais were trying their best to have their own Imam installed.

There was one very important legal point, which was to prove helpful to us in the tug of war, which ensued. According to a clause of the trust deed, the legal status of the Mirzais, from the very beginning had been that of tenants of the Trust which could be terminated. This clause had remained unnoticed by the Muslims until I pointed it out to them. At this meeting it was decided unanimously to form a “Woking Mosque Regeneration Committee” which should take over the physical possession of the Mosque under protest, and appoint an adhoc Muslim Imam after my departure. I0t further resolved the Mosque Trust should be asked to expel all its Mirzai members on the Board and never to appoint a Mirzai Imam again. It was in these circumstances that, in November 1968, I handed over the Mosque to Muslims and left England on my tour,

The general impression among the non Muslims is that our opposition to Mirzaiyat stems from religious intolerance. They fail to appreciate the fact that apart from doctrinal differences, this clique is being used by the anti-Islamic powers as collaborators in the promotion of their political and economic interests throughout Muslim world. On top of all this there is a growing apprehension among the Muslims that the pattern of Qadiani libertinism is liable to corrode the moral fabric of Muslim youth.

Al-Hafiz B. A. Masri
March 1989
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Links and Related Essays

Basheer Ahmad Masri – Basheer Ahmad Masri – Wikipedia

Who is Fakhuruddin Multani?

Basheer-uddin Mahmud Ahmad was accused of immoral behavior at Qadian (1938)–he calls it normal

Bashir Ahmad Misri and Ahmadiyya

Misri Mubahila

http://www.irshad.org/brochures/bane.php

http://www.shahjahanmosque.org.uk/imam

Bashir Ahmad Misri, Murdered Multani were Correct about Mirza Mahmud in 1937 – Viceroy Papers

In 1937, was the Mirza family was suffering the divine the wrath of their false claims?

Bashir Ahmad Misri, Murdered Multani were Correct about Mirza Mahmud in 1937 – Viceroy Papers

Who is Fakhuruddin Multani?

The first time a Qadiani-Ahmadi murdered a Muslim for criticizing Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1930)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basheer_Ahmad_Masri

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