Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light

The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL; Arabic: دين السلام والنور الأحمدي; Persian: دىن صلح و نور احمدى), also known as the Ahmadi Religion, is a new religious movement derived from Twelver Shia Islam and founded in 2015. The leader of the religion is Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq (Arabic: عبدالله هاشم أبا الصادق), an Egyptian-American who claims to be the Qa'im (i.e. the Mahdi) and to have been appointed by name in the will of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The Ahmadi Religion espouses a religious, political, and economic ideology known as Ahmadism, whose practitioners are called Ahmadis.