Intro
Maulana Zafar Ali Khan (1873– 27 November 1956) Zafar was born into a Punjabi Janjua family in Sialkot, British India. He received his early education at Mission High School, Wazirabad, Gujranwala District., matriculated (10th grade) from Patiala, and passed his intermediate (12th grade) from the Aligarh College. Next, he worked in the postal department of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, the same place where his father worked, but resigned over a row with his seniors. He rejoined Aligarh College and gained his BA degree from there. After graduation, Khan was appointed secretary to a Muslim political leader Mohsin-ul-Mulk, then in Bombay. Then he worked for some time as a translator in Hyderabad, Deccan, rising to the post of Secretary, Home Department. He returned from Hyderabad and launched his daily Zamindar newspaper from Lahore which was founded by his father Maulvi Sirajuddin Ahmad, a close associate of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan – was a man of considerable ability and talent. Interestingly enough, when MGA had died in May of 1908, Maulvi Sirajuddin Ahmad wrote a small obituary write-up on MGA on June 8th, 1908 wherein he called MGA a “perfect” Muslim (see Zahid Aziz, “The Ahmadiyya Case”). Maulvi Sirajuddin Ahmad also confesses to have visited Qadian in 1877, he pointed out MGA barely spoke. He also indirectly mentioned how MGA was was born in late 1830’s at the latest, not 1835. In the 1930’s, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan wrote an essay entitled, “An open letter to the King of England” in which he stated that MGA accused Mary of adultery and called Christ a bastard.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________Some of his family members were Ahmadi
Maulana Zafar Ali Khan’s maternal uncle Maulana Muhammad Abdullah Khan (d. 26th April 1935) was a scholar of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Jamaat. This uncle’s two sons, Maulana Mustafa Hasan Khan and Maulana Murtaza Hasan Khan were prominent Lahore Ahmadiyya missionaries and writers. In 1935, Lahori-Ahmadi newspapers reported how the uncle of Maulana Zafar Ali Khan had died.
Page 4 from the issue 27 April 1935. The death news is in column 3. By coincidence in column 1 there is an item about Maulana Zafar Ali Khan’s opposition campaign against Ahmadiyyat.
Pages 1 and 6 from the issue 7 May 1935. This is an obituary. It mentions on page 6 in column 1 (see red line) that the deceased was the “real phopha” of Maulana Zafar Ali Khan. That means husband of the sister of Maulana Zafar Ali Khan’s father (uncle by marriage). As mentioned in these reports, the deceased was father of Maulana Murtaza Khan and Maulana Mustafa Khan, both of whom were missionaries and authors of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement. These two were first cousins of Maulana Zafar Ali Khan. The biographies of the three of them are included in the Lahore Ahmadiyya Urdu publication, Yaad-i Raftigan, vol. 2, at this link. Please see p. 102-114.
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1912
The ROR of Dec-1913 reports how Mr. Zafar Ali Khan (editor of the Zamindar) was in the Uk when Khawaja Kamaluddin arrived and even met english people with Khawaja Kamaluddin and his team at Woking.
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1913
There is an article by Maulana Zafar Ali Khan in the very first issue of The Islamic Review dated February 1913, the monthly magazine started by Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din from Woking, England. The article is addressed to the British public and is on the topic of the sympathies of the Muslims of British India for the problems of their fellow Muslims in Islamic countries. Maulana Zafar Ali Khan was there at the Woking and praying behind Khawaja Kamaluddin and vice verse.
The ROR of Dec-1913 reports how Mr. Zafar Ali Khan (editor of the Zamindar) was in the Uk when Khawaja Kamaluddin arrived and even met english people with Khawaja Kamaluddin and his team at Woking.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________1931
Maulana Zafar Ali Khan opposes Ahmadiyya, Sir Fazl-i-Hussain and many other Ahmadi’s as they go to war over the Kashmir issue.
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1932
Via “The Noble Son” by Jalal ud Din Shams, 1957
Zamindaar, 9 October 1932
“””This is going to become a tall and strong tree. On the one side its branches can be seen spreading in China and on the other they can be seen spreading in Europe. Today my bewildered eyes are regretfully watching that graduates, advocates, professors and doctors of the very highest calibre—who were not impressed with philosophies of the likes of Kant, Descartes and Hegel are declaring their faith blindly, with their eyes closed, in the [God forbid] absurd nonsense of Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani.”””
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In, 1934 when the British government banned Zamindar, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan, sued and got the government orders revoked by the court. He stood firm against Mirza Ghulam Ahmed and tried to falsify his claim of Prophethood through his rational columns. Essentially all Muslims consider Mirza Ghulam Ahmed a liar and his claim false. He was also mentioned by name at the 1934 Jalsa at Qadian.
The Khalifa at Qadian had his issue with Miss Rufo in this era too. Maulana Zafar Ali Khan mocked the Khalifa via poetry.
A rough translation of the first poem
ITALIAN BEAUTY.
O U THE LAND OF ITALY O U THE SPRING OF GARDEN.
BECAUSE OF U, THE CITY OF LAHORE HAS BECOME A GARDEN
UR NAUGHTY STYLE AND BEAUTY IS LIKE A MESSENGER
GOD OF LOVE YOUR ATTRACTIVE WALK.
MANY HEARTS HAVE MINGLED IN UR BLACK HAIRS.
HUNDRED OF ODORS ASSOCIATED TO EACH THREAD OF UR HAIRS.
THE MAGIC OF YOUR EYES IS CREATOR OF SERENITY.
THE PERFUME OF UR DRESS MAKES MAD.
Ur SANDAL LIKE LEGS ARE LIKE MEASURING GLASS.
AND UR MARBLE LIKE BODY IS THE TOKEN OF JOY.
UR UNDRESS BEAUTY IS THE DECORATION OF NIGHT BARS
BOTH SHAIKH AND BRAHMAN ARE CRAZY OF IT.
WHEN UR DRUNK EYES FELL UPON QADIYAN
IT VANISHES THE JOY OF ZILLI PROPHETHOOD.
I AM ALSO AN ADMIRER OF UR DRUNK EYES.
BECAUSE IT IS AN ANTI QADIYAN MAGIC.
The scan work
A rough translation of the second poem
WHERE HAS GONE THE UNDRESSED BEAUTY OF HOTEL CECIL
THE LOVERS OF THE CITY ASK FROM ZAMINDAR
WHERE HAS GONE THE UNDRESSED BEAUTY OF HOTEL CECIL.
WITH OUR SOUL SHE ALSO TOOK AWAY OUR IMAN
SHE TOOK AWAY EVERYTHING WITH HER.
SHE TOOK AWAY THE FEAR OF ALLAH.
AND SHE ALSO TOOK THE RESPECT OF ALLAH,S PROPHET S.A.W.
SHE WAS LINKS OF THE CHAIN OF THE MASTER
AND SHE TOOK AWAY THE THINGS TO SHOW THE DOOMSDAY.
SHE HAD COME FROM ROME AS A PRIDE.
DON,T KNOW WHICH PLACE OF PRIDE DID SHE GO
LISTENING TO ALL THIS HUE & CRY SAID THE ZAMINDAR.
ALL I KNOW IS THAT SHE WENT TO QADIAN
_____________________________________________________________________________________________1935
He was involved in the Ahrar situation (See page 269/356). He is mentioned in the ROR of July-1935.
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1939
The ROR of March-1939 mentions him and his father.
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He died on Nov 27, 1956, in his hometown Karamabad, near Wazirabad, Punjab.
______________________________________________________________________________________________Links and Related Essay’s
My protest note on Wikipedia entry about Maulana Zafar Ali Khan
http://www.ahmadiyya.org/allegs/zafar-ali.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamindar_(newspaper)
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2017/04/11/maulana-zafar-ali-khan-vs-mahmud-ahmad-and-miss-rufo/
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/?s=Misri
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2016/08/18/ahmadiyya-and-its-violent-past-the-early-1930s/
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/?s=Multani
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2017/07/24/who-is-bashir-ahmad-misri/
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/?s=Mannan
Click to access whateminentmuslimssay.pdf
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