Arshad Ijaz hails from Chenab Nagar (formerly Rabwah) and left the Ahmadiyya Jamaat to embrace Islam in 2013.After converting to Islam, Arshad Ijaz settled in Faisalabad and is currently working in a factory.
Before leaving the Ahmadiyya Jamaat, he served as a missionary (Murabbi) within the Jamaat.After leaving the Ahmadiyya Jamaat, he faced coercion, pressure, and enticements from the Jamaat to rejoin, but he remained steadfast in his decision to embrace Islam.
Following his conversion, Arshad Ijaz endured various hardships inflicted by the Ahmadiyya Jamaat, the most severe of which was having his children taken away from him. To this day, Arshad Ijaz is awaiting the return of his two sons and is seeking justice through governmental institutions and international human rights organizations.
In a video interview, Arshad Ijaz stated:
“Whenever someone leaves Qadianism (Ahmadiyyat) or any other religion to embrace Islam, they face numerous difficulties. Outwardly, these (Ahmadiyya members) appear innocent, and ordinary Muslims assume they have good morals and soft hearts. But in reality, that is not the case.
(When I left the Ahmadiyya Jamaat and embraced Islam,) they told my wife that I had lost my mind, that I had gone insane, and that she should not listen to me or leave the Ahmadiyya Jamaat. Additionally, my wife’s brothers were summoned to the Ahmadiyya office and instructed to tell her that if I did not return to the Ahmadiyya Jamaat, she should divorce me and that I would not be allowed to see my children.
The Ahmadiyya Jamaat also pressured my parents, instructing them not to allow me into their home and to deny me any share in the family inheritance.
More than ten years have passed, and I have not been given even a single rupee from my parents’ inheritance. I continue to face persecution because they (the Ahmadiyya Jamaat) consider it a religious duty to do so.