Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat
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Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat مجلسِ تحفظِ ختمِ نبوت | |
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| Secretary-General | Pir Afzal Qadri |
| Leader | Sahibzada Hamid Raza |
| Founder | Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi |
| Founded | 1950 |
| Ideology | Khatam an-Nabiyyin |
| Colors | Green |
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| http://www.khatm-e-nubuwwat.org | |
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Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat (Urdu: مجلسِ تحفظِ ختمِ نبوت, lit. '"The Assembly to Protect the End of Prophethood"') is the programmatic name of a Pakistani Barelvi organization and Islamic religious movement in Pakistan aiming to protect the belief in the finality of prophethood of Muhammad based on Quran and Sunnah concept of Khatam an-Nabiyyin.[1] It was founded by Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi in 1950.
The roots of Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat can be traced back to the 1880s when Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian proclaimed himself to be a prophet in Islam. The organization gained momentum during the 1953 riots against Ahmadi Muslims. The Court of enquiry report on the disturbances explains the real reasons for this violent uprising against Ahmadiyya. Main reasons being criticism of Ahmadi was due to the theological differences and using the Ahmadiyya issues by Muslim conservatives to gain political mileage. The rioters had three major demands:
- Removal of Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan from the foreign ministry
- Removal of Ahmadi Muslims from top government offices;
- Declaration of Ahmadis as non-Muslims.
The movement launched countrywide campaigns and protests to persecute Ahmadis across the nation. Majlis, along with many religious leaders, spearheaded this movement to declare Ahmadis as non-Muslims.[2]
Ahmadis declared Non-Muslims in 1974
Many Islamist theologians Pakistan particularly Ulama-I-Ahle-Sunnat under the leadership of Shah Ahmad Noorani Siddiqui started a successful campaign against the Ahmadis and compelled the members of the National Assembly to declare Ahmadis as non-Muslims. And such a clause was inserted in the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan declaring that followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmed are non-Muslims by Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan. After meeting the first agenda, Khatme-Nabuwat started the next phase of their campaign – to force Ahmadis to comply with the new law. They started demanding legal sanctions on Ahmadis barring them from using the title of Muslim. This campaign was at its peak when Shah Ahmad Noorani and Punjab-based Khalid Hasan Shah were leading the Kul Jamaati Majlis-e-Amal Tahafuz-e-Khatam-e-Nabuwat in 1984 and 1985. The then president General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq passed an ordinance in 1984 amending the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) that called for punitive sanctions on Ahmadis in 1984, commonly known as Ordinance XX.[3]