Question: I would like to concretely criticise this question. Some 8 years ago, I did an interview with sheik Nasir sahib and he was telling me that 100 years from now Switzerland will become islamic. Now 92 years are left and my question to you is, is the schedule or program of your to convert Switzerland into Islam. According to your plan, it is everything is working all right and you are doing your job properly or what does it look like if your plan is working and is it so that you are expecting one big blast after which suddenly everyone will be converted or do you think it will be taken step by step.
Hazoor (rh): Very interesting question, but again asked with a wrong emphasis. If the translation is correct, I am overawed by the question. It presents a picture of Ahmadiyya plotting, as if a secret plot is being hatched by the Ahmadiyya community to overthrow the Swiss system of life and suddenly in a big explosion, you will see Ahmadiyya emerge victorious and the rest of the population’s resistance suddenly breaks down.
This is the impression of the question which I received from the translation. If that is so, it has nothing to do with Ahmadiyya way of life, it has nothing to do with Ahmadiyya thinking. There is no plotting in Ahmadiyya. Everything is above board and open. We have never been suspected of any underground movements of any sort, whether connected with force or otherwise. This is how we preach. We have invited you and I am telling you whatever you want to know. You lead me to regions of inquiry and I am being led by you and I respond to you in whichever region you want me to answer.
Apart from this, we have no system of preaching, no secret sly programs and plots of overthrowing any government or any social system or any religion. So if anybody is afraid of us from these points of view, the fears are totally groundless. But if given us a chance, you come to us through conviction. To stop you from that, would be a cruelty to you. As a civilian of Switzerland, you have a right to choose your religion and anybody who stands in your way and my way of genuine civilized dialogue is not only being cruel to me but also is being cruel to you.
So this dialogue is the type of dialogue which must be promoted. It is to the advantage of every person involved. There is no criminal activity, no plot whatsoever. So if you spread it through love, through conviction, what if the whole Switzerland becomes Ahmadiyya or anything else? The major is important. The intent is important and the approach is important. As far as that assessment of 100 years is concerned, I am the head of the Ahmadiyya community. I have an authority to speak on these issues. I have absolutely no reason to believe that this would happen. Not to my knowledge.
So if something has been told to Sheikh Sahib secretly by some authority, I don’t know. As far as I am concerned, I should love not only Switzerland but the entire world including Russia to become Ahmadiyya overnight. This is my ambition. And if it is a crime, I should be punished.
Question: May I repeat my follow-up question? You have translated it. Do you think that Christianity is a religion between transition?
Hazoor (rh): No, I think Christianity has already undergone all the changes which Christianity could undergo in the last 2000 years.
It’s a long history of Christianity to change from the original and it went through the same fate as everything else in the world does. Even the buildings are gradually destroyed with the passage of time and they lose shape and form and colour. Every religion has gone through some changes. Even Islam has gone through some changes from the point of view of onlookers. This is why 72 sects have come into being from one single Muslim party at the time of the Holy Prophet of Islam.
So Christianity has gone through not only many changes, but it has come to an end. Why I say it has come to an end? Because Christianity now is bequeathing the new generation, not Christianity, but atheism. Because the younger generation in the Christian countries are not any longer interested in new sects and forms of Christianity, rather in an open rebellion against the concept of God. This is the growing fear which Christianity is confronted with.
And if she does not open her eyes to this problem and tackles in time, it will be too late in life for them to remain, to keep Christianity as a life force in the world. So I advise you sympathetically, although we are rivals in religion, but in all honesty we belong to the same stage of those who believe in God. This is the fundamental round which we must gather our forces. So when I said Christianity has reached the teether of all its changes, what I meant was that the second stage of ultimate rebellion against religion as such has already reached and is widening.
