Is This the Antichrist? A Closer Look at the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light

Cultish

Jeff Durbin

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

What happens when a fringe religious group claims to be the fulfillment of every major religious prophecy—from Islam and Christianity to Buddhism and Zoroastrianism? In this episode, we’re joined by James Rayment of the Al-Ma’idah Initiative to explore the strange and rapidly growing movement known as the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light. What draws people into a belief system that reinterprets ancient scriptures to point to a modern-day messiah? How do we discern between genuine religious conviction and dangerous deception? Join us as we uncover the theology, tactics, and troubling trends behind the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light—and why its influence may be more widespread than you think.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to cultish entering the kingdom of the cults.
0:03.7	My name is Jeremiah Roberts, one of the co-host here.
0:06.7	I am joined by Andrew, the super sleuth of the show, in your super secret headquarters.
0:11.8	I getting all worked in there up in Utah.
0:15.1	Good to have you with me today.
0:17.0	Hey, man, it's good to be here.
0:18.2	I'm excited to talk about what we're going to talk about today, man, with a dear beloved brother of ours. James, how you doing, man?
0:24.9	I am great. I'm still not David Wood, but I'm here. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we are here because a couple weeks ago, the clip you just played, this is somebody that is people were perceiving him to be some sort of
0:38.8	maniacal cult leader. He kind of went viral. Everyone thought it was maybe some sort of A-24
0:43.6	movie about some weird cult leader. Some people thought it was AI. Some people thought he was the
0:49.5	Antichrist. What are your thoughts? Is this the Antichrist we're talking about? He's certainly
0:56.4	auditioning for the part and self-identifies as the Antichrist in his works. Oh. Let me read
1:03.6	you an excerpt from his book. So he has what he calls their gospel, which is like 650 pages long, and it's called the goal of the wise.
1:13.6	So on page 582, so digging deep, he says this, I said, I have read about the beast in the Bible,
1:23.7	and have found it saying, then I saw a second beast coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb,
1:28.7	but it spoke like a dragon. It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf,
1:33.3	and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast whose fatal wound had been healed.
1:38.3	And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven on the earth in full view of the people.
1:44.1	Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the earth in full view of the people. Because of the
1:44.6	signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of
1:48.4	the earth, it ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword
1:53.1	and yet lived. The Imam, this is Abdullah Hashem's mentor allegedly, said yes. I said, this is
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