The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light tried to hire someone to kill an ex-member who had spoken to the press. The hired hitman is now revealing the whole plot. It adds to previous allegations that the leader, Abdullah Hashem, ordered the killing of another member, Lisa Wiese.

Be Scofield is a prominent cult reporter who exposed Love Has Won, which led to the hit HBO series. She is the author of Hunting Lucifer: One Reporter's Search for Cults and Demons. Her work is cited by the NY Times, Rolling Stone, People, and more. It was also turned into an episode of "Unwell" on Netflix.

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9/22/25

By BE SCOFIELD

In late June, a strange message buzzed onto Yasir’s phone. “Hello,” the man said. “Send me your location so I can bring you a car.”

Yasir is a former member of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light, who has spoken to journalists and made significant allegations about the cult. He now lives in Dubai but formerly lived in the cult's compound in England.

Yasir dismissed the text message as spam. But days later, he received a phone call that would change everything.

On July 3, the same man, Ibrahim (a pseudonym), called. “Who are you? Where are you?” he demanded. “I noticed he was speaking with a Pashto accent,” Yasir recalled. “So I started speaking Pashto. We bonded over our language and that we were both Muslims.”

Their conversation led to a change of heart. Ibrahim then revealed why he was actually calling.

“A lot of things are happening behind your back,” Ibrahim told him. “Someone is trying to harm you. I have all your photos. People even came to your house.”

During an interview, Ibrahim admitted he had been hired to attack or kill Yasir. "If you slap Yasir, we'll pay you 50,000 dirhams," he was told by his friend Omar in the UK. He was recruited by an Ahmadi religion member. "If you break his legs, we'll pay you 150,000 dirhams. If you kill Yasir, we'll pay you 300,000 dirhams (roughly $82,000 US dollars.)"

The person allegedly behind the assassination plot was a London native named Sajid Ali Khokhar. He's a longtime member of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light, led by Abdullah Hashem. Sajid appeared in an Ahmadi religion video on June 3rd, saying Hashem will "unite all of the religions of the world." Sajid offered to pay his friend Omar in London to attack or kill Yasir. Omar then recruited his friend Ibrahim in Dubai, where Yasir lives.

Ibrahim told me how he was recruited to kill Yasir. “Sajid spoke with my friend Omar in the UK who rents luxury cars from the company I work for in Dubai,” he told me. “Someone asked me to kill Yasir,” Omar had told Ibrahim. "Can you do one thing for me? Kill Yasir, slap his face, make the video and send it to me. If you kill him and then slap him, we pay 300,000.”

“‘Why kill him? What did he do?’ Ibrahim asked. Omar told him not to worry about why. "I said, ‘No—you have to tell me the reason.'" Omar refused.

The group offered Ibrahim $80,000 to kill Yasir

“Ok, I will check,'” Ibrahim told Omar. That’s when he decided to call Yasir directly. “I explained everything to Yasir.” Ibrahim also claims to have reported the plot to the Dubai police.

Ibrahim said the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light had already compiled a mini dossier on Yasir. "I knew the building, room number, all the information, and photos," Ibrahim said.

I've reviewed photos that Ibrahim had received to carry out the targeted hit. Ibrahim had photos of Yasir's apartment building, his car and license plate, and photos of Yasir taken while in the cult that he had never seen. Ibrahim also sent me a photo of Sajid Ali Khokhar's passport. The dossier was aided by Yasir's brother Tahir, who is a longtime member of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light. Screenshots of chat messages between Sajid Ali and Tahir confirm his role.

Messages I've reviewed between Omar and Ibrahim also discuss the plot. "Take him out then and do the deal with him," Omar writes to him.

“I was shocked,” Yasir said. “Ibrahim had photos of me even I didn’t know existed.”

Ibrahim said the conspirators offered more than money. “Omar said they’d give me a visa to come to the UK and work with the Ahmadi group,” he recalled. “I told them no, I don’t want this.”

Sajid Ali Khokar, member of Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light

“Omar is my best friend,” Ibrahim said. “Once I spoke with Yasir, I told Omar these Ahmadi people are dangerous and to be careful.”

When Yasir lived with the Ahmadi religion group, he claims Sajid was selling heroin, hash, and other drugs. He said Abdullah Hashem was involved. “Sajid would ask me to send money to Pakistan,” Yasir said. “It turned out it was his main drug supplier. When I refused, Abdullah would contact me and order that I do it.”

Ibrahim said Sajid was arrested in London in the last few months for paying Omar with fake money to buy a car. "When Omar went to the bank to deposit the money they told him it was fake and asked who he got it from," Ibrahim told me. "He told them Sajid."

"Sajid spent three to four days in jail," Ibrahim recalled. "He ended up telling the police the fake money came from Abdullah Hashem." An Ahmadi religion leader had called Omar and told him they'd pay him if he agreed to help get Sajid out of jail, which he did. But, according to Ibrahim, the Ahmadi religion leader never paid Omar.

Yasir said Hashem had threatened him when he first left the group. "He sent around six members to my home in Crewe, and they threatened me, saying, 'If you say something bad about Abdullah, we can destroy you in Dubai." While in the group, Hashem once told him during an argument, "There are so many here; we will crush you."

These photos were given to the hired hitman. They include a photo of Yasir's apartment building at the time, his car and license plate, and photos of Yasir that only the cult had. The chat message is between Yasir's brother Tahir (an Ahmadi religion member) and Sajid Ali. They are discussing things related to the plot.

A former member named Franck alleges Hashem asked followers if they would kill for him. "One day while I was in Abdullah Hashem's office with Brother Marc," Franck writes. "He first asked Marc, 'If I ask you to kill Franck by planting a knife in his throat, would you do it?' Then he asked me, 'If I order you to plant a knife in Marc's throat, would you do it?' I said, 'I don't know.' So he replied that this is not a good answer."

"I'll show you a way to kill him with no one knowing about it." - Abdullah Hashem

Yasir also told me that Hashem asked him and another member to kill a man who had an affair with the wife of a follower. "I'll show you a way to kill him with no one knowing about it," Hashem told them over a private group text. They refused, and Hashem said to them, "You have no faith." Yasir said there was another disturbing incident. "He sent his believers in Turkey to use knives to kill an Iraqi guy who had left and was making videos exposing Hashem." Other ex-members have confirmed this took place.

In a screenshot of a group chat, Hashem tells the husband of the woman who cheated, "Or you will kill her," referring to the man's own wife. Hashem is grilling him on what sexual activities his wife partook in. The husband responds using the term "master" for Hashem.

The plan to kill Yasir only strengthens the suspicion of foul play in Lisa Wiese's disappearance. People suspect she was murdered by the group. Wiese had become disillusioned with the group and wanted out after many years. There was much tension between her and Hashem—but he agreed to let her leave if first she went to India with Ali Mohammad (his main henchman) and helped open a new center. Ali returned, but Wiese never did. She hasn't been seen or heard from since that trip over five years ago.

“You can’t do anything in the community without permission of Abdullah," Yasir told me. "You can’t marry, buy a house, or do anything. He is behind this attempt to kill me."

The plot marks another escalation for the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light, a group whose leader claims to be the Mahdi, or divinely guided savior. Long accused by ex-members of psychological coercion, sexual abuse, and financial exploitation, the group is now facing even more allegations.

Sajid Ali initially responded to my WhatsApp inquiry, but when I informed him that I was a journalist asking about his involvement in a plot against Yasir, he quickly disappeared and blocked me.

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