Intro
Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam (Urdu: مجلس احرارلأسلام), also known in short as Ahrar, is a religious Muslim political party in the Indian subcontinent that was formed during the British Raj (prior to the Partition of India) on 29 December 1929 at Lahore.
The group became composed of Indian Muslims inspired by and supporting the Khilafat Movement, which cleaved closer to the Congress Party. The party is based in Punjab and gathered support from the urban lower-middle class. Chaudhry Afzal Haq, Maulana Habib-ur-Rehman Ludhianvi and Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari were the leaders of the party.
Religious leaders from all sects Sunni Barelvi, Deobandi, Ahle Hadith, Shia Progressive and politically Communists were the members of Majlis-e-Ahrar. Chaudhry Afzal Haq, Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, Habib-ur-Rehman Ludhianvi, Mazhar Ali Azhar, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan and Dawood Ghaznavi were the founders of the party. The Ahrar was composed of Indian Muslims disillusioned by the Khilafat Movement, which cleaved closer to the Congress Party.
In 1942, the Ahrar’s and Ahmadi’s had a huge confrontation in a village called Bhamari (See page 103/356, and many others, this is a document from the British library).
We have posted internal British government reports from 1934–1946 which explain the true story of Ahmadiyya vs. Muslims in the Punjab. Also check out The 2nd Khalifa’s speech on Oct-19-1934 vs. the Ahrar’s. These reports prove that the Ahmadiyya Movement was upset with the Governor of the Punjab and all of his police since they were trying to be fair with Muslims. These documents prove that the Ahmadiyya Movement were the aggressors and they ran wild in the Punjab. These documents prove that the Mirza family was always in-concert with the British government. We have written many essay’s based on these reports. Check out are additional essays on the Ahmadiyya Movement vs. Ahrar. Also read about Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari and the Ahmadiyya Movement herein. He led a movement against Ahmadis and held a Ahrar Tableegh Conference at Qadian in 21–23 October 1934 (see the details in the below). In 1949 he founded Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat and served as first Emir. Bukhari was a central figure in the Khatme Nabuwwat Movement of 1953, which demanded that government of Pakistan declare the Ahmadis as non-Muslims. He was given the death penalty (1952)(which was later redacted), for his breach of peace vs. Ahmadi’s. You can listen to a rare speech of his herein.
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Beef with the Ahmadiyya movement?
As the early 1930’s approached, the governor of the Punjab was Herbert William Emerson (see page 268). He had many issues with the Ahmadiyya movement and their modus operandi. In those days, it was impossible to publically criticize the Ahmadiyya Movement. The Majlis Ahrar, which was a political movement, they had lots of beef with Ahmadis in this same era and had resolved to conduct a conference in Qadian during the winter of 1934. Governor Emerson approved of the Ahrar conference in the vicinity of Qadian in 1934 and stunned the Ahmadi Khalifa. The governor assured the Ahmadi Khalifa that he would take care of the security of Qadian, however, the Ahmadi Khalifa still sent out letters to the various branches of Ahmadiyya in British India and asked for young men to be sent to Qadian to patrol the streets, since there was no police department. This seems to have angered the governor. He ordered that all visitors of Qadian (see the 6th paragraph from the bottom) be recorded and that every Friday Khutbah of the Khalifa to be recorded and sent to him for review (see page 270). This is a very strange reaction by the Governor of the Punjab, his motives are unknown. However, the Ahrar conference took place and Ataullah Shah Bukhari delivered its keynote speech. Ataullah Shah Bukhari was then promptly arrested for anti-government speech. It should be noted that Muhammad Zafrullah Khan was a close friend of Governor Emerson and even had taken his mother to meet with Governor Emerson’s wife in an attempt to secure support for the Ahmadiyya movement. Bukhari was sentenced to 6 months. He did fight his case on appeal, wherein Justice Khosla reviewed the judgement of the high court and commented as such:
“To propagate their ideas and to expand the number of their community, those people (the Mureeds of Mirza Mahmud Ahmad) started using such weapons and methods which are generally considered objectionable. So that those persons who refused to tow their line, were subjected to (social and economic) boycott and expulsion (from the town or community), and at times, they were threatened by dire and ghastly consequences.” (see PDF 593/623).
______________________________________________________________________________________________Tarikh e Ahmadiyya Vol-7 page 489 onward
WHEN AHRAR SHATTERED THE EMPIRE OF KHALIFA BASHIRUDDIN MAHMOUD AHMAD IN QADIAN.
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1934
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2022/09/14/the-2nd-khalifas-speech-on-oct-19-1934-vs-the-ahrars/
The ROR of Nov-1934 has reproduced the Friday Sermon of the 2nd Khalifa on Oct-19-1934. This was just a few days before the famous “Ahrar Tableegh Conference”, just outside Qadian on 21–23 of October 1934. In December of 1934, Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari was given 6 months of prison for disturbing the peace. However, he won on appeal in the summer of 1935 (the Khosla judgement) and never spent a single day in prison.
Nevertheless, back to the Friday Sermon of Oct-19-1934, in this sermon, the 2nd Khalifa ordered all the Ahmadi Murrabi’s to come to his house (Dar ul Anwar) after the Friday service. They were going to be sent out to gain influence in terms of the forthcoming assembly elections. They would be sent to Sarghoda, Jhang and Mianwali districts.
The 2nd Khalifa then announced that the Punjab government had placed certain restrictions on the Ahmadi’s at Qadian (which the 2nd Khalifa disagreed with, however, was outwardly cooperating). The Punjab government didn’t want any Ahmadi’s hold a stick in their hand, up to the 27th of October. The 2nd Khalifa complains that he came to Masjid Aqsa without a stick today and he expects Ahmadi’s to do the same, even though this was against his family traditions. He goes to claim that he has 2 announcements, the first one is that NO Ahmadi should do any violence vs. Muslims, in fact, the Khalifa says that even if an Ahmadi is about to get killed, an ahmadi shouldn’t stop walking, just take photo’s. The 2nd announcement is delayed by the Khalifa until after the “Ahrar Tableegh Conference”.
The Khalifa goes on to claim that the Government (the punjab government) has insulted the Ahmadiyya Community by allowing the “Ahrar Tableegh Conference”. The 2nd Khalifa argues that the Ahmadiyya Community is the most loyal community in the entire British Colonial Empire. The 2nd Khalifa argues that the Ahmadiyya Community has spent 100,000’s of rupees on loyalty to the government and supporting the government and has never even asked for copper in return.
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1936
The 2nd Khalifa mentions the Ahrar’s at the 1936 Jalsa at Qadian (See ROR of Jan-1937). The 2nd Khalifa then discussed Tehreek-e-Jadid and claimed that without the vituperation of the Ahrar, Tehreek-e-Jadid would have never been launched, and thus it was a bi-product and had brought in lots of money (allegedly). The 2nd Khalifa then reviewed the work of some of the businesses at Qadian that the jamaat owned like, carpentry, ironsmithy, bookmaking and sales department, and reported that they are all successful. The 2nd Khalifa explained how these local industries were working under Tehreek-e-Jadid. The 2nd Khalifa urged young Ahmadi men to go out in the world and spread Ahmadiyya, via working blue collar jobs or whatever. The 2nd Khalifa urged young Ahmadi men to live poor, to curtail their own costs and work forever!
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1941
The ROR of Feb-1941 mentions the Ahrar’s and their agitation of 1934.
The ROR of March-1941 mentions the Ahrar and their agitation of 1934.
The ROR of April-1941 mentions the Ahrar’s and their connections with Ghandi and his congress, are they members of not? In this essay, they call the Ahrar’s as “unwanted” followers of Ghandi.
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1942
The Ahrar were mentioned in the ROR of July-1942.
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Links and Related Essay’s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam
Click to access ahrar-ahmadiyya-despute-at-qadian.pdf
(See page 103/356, and many others, this is a document from the British library)
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