brother faizol mailed him about something asking for a clarification.
Have both sections of that community been declared kafir? The 'Lahori Ahmedis' call the larger group 'Qadianis' And the 'Ahmedi' group just call themselves that, whilst we call them 'Qadianis', which can make things confusing. I know the latter believe that their man was the reincarnation of just about everyone.. but the former think he was the mahdi right? I genuinely don't know, but does believing someone to be Imam Mahdi (ra) put them outside the pale of islam? The reason i ask that is because Sudan had a similar movement at around the same time which culminated in the battle of Omdurman - the man the Sudanese regarded as the Mahdi is still held in high regard there, though im sure most Sudanese recognise he wasn't now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ahmad Thoughts?