Desi Viagra Pills on Sale at the Ahmadiyya Jalsa? Here's What AK Sheikh Is Asking

Virility Pills on Sale at the Jalsa? Here's What AK Sheikh Is Asking

A stall selling sexual-potency capsules, openly set up in front of families at this year's Jalsa Salana, is the latest story AK Sheikh raised on this week's Zaitoon Khabar Nama — and it's the kind of story that's easy to dismiss until you actually see the photos.

Stall Number 15

Stall 15 at the Jalsa grounds was set up specifically to sell "Zad Jam-e-Ishq" capsules — marketed under signage referencing "khalis Saibrian salajeet" and other Desi medications, openly  known as a treatment for male sexual weakness. Photos from the stall reportedly show two elderly men handling and exchanging the product in full view of the grounds.

The Origins of Story

The part that makes this more than just an awkward stall photo is the backstory AK Sheikh attaches to it. He says the formula is tied to a remedy Mirza Ghulam Ahmad had recorded, in Jamaat literature itself, as having used for his own condition around the time of his marriage — described in the books as having come to him through a servant, Hamid Ali, and later framed by   "ilhami" (divinely revealed). AK Sheikh's point isn't subtle: he's asking why a personal remedy from over a century ago is now a branded product being sold at a religious gathering, framed with the same "ilhami" language.

Why This Is a Legitimate Question — and Where AK Sheikh Draws the Line

To his credit, AK Sheikh is careful to separate the stall from the issue itself. He's explicit that sexual health is a genuine, ordinary medical matter — his actual position is that anyone dealing with it should see a doctor privately, not that struggling with it is shameful. His objection is narrower and, honestly, harder to argue with: setting up a public stall at a religious event, with elderly attendees exchanging the product in front of people, isn't a health service — it's a spectacle. He's also pointed out the age of the men shown handling the product at the stall, and raised concern about what it says that this is happening in full public view rather than through anything resembling actual medical care.

The Bigger Picture

AK Sheikh ties this into a wider argument: that there's a gap between how Jamaat leadership presents itself publicly and what's actually tolerated internally — from the chanda pressure at the Germany Jalsa to unanswered accountability demands over how women in the community are treated. A stall like this, he argues, is a small but very visible example of that same pattern: things happening in plain sight that leadership either doesn't address or doesn't see as a problem.

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