Munir Inquiry Report

Report of The Court of Inquiry constituted under Punjab Act II of 1954 to enquire into the Punjab Disturbances of 1953  commonly know as Munir Inquiry Report

In the Report Judges argued that since a demand is being made to declare all Ahmedis non-Muslims, those who are making this demand must know who a Muslim is. "What is Islam and who is a momin or a Muslim? They put this question to the Ulema ... but we cannot refrain from saying here that it was a matter of infinite regret to us that the Ulema whose first duty should be to have settled views on this were themselves". The Court asked the leading Islamic scholars and theologians of the day to "give the irreducible minimum conditions which a person must satisfy to be entitled to be called a Muslim." No two divines agreed as to who a Muslim is, leading the Court to observe, "Keeping in view the several definitions given by the Ulema, need we make any comment except that no two learned divines are agreed on this fundamental. If we attempt our own definition as each learned divine has done and that definition differs from that given by all others, we unanimously go out of the fold of Islam, and if we adopt the definition given by any one of the Ulema, we remain Muslims according to the view of that alim but kafirs according to the definition of everyone else."

Khalid Hasan

The Friday Times, Lahore.