Intro
Before MGA made his wildest claim (1891), roughly 1888-1890, Noorudin wrote a letter to MGA about the hadith of the messiah at Damascus and the difficulty of MGA fitting himself into this hadith. Thus, in Izala Auham (1890-1891), MGA denied the famous hadith about the white minaret near Damascus.
Per Ahmadiyya sources, on May 28th, 1900, MGA decided to build a minaret at Qadian (See Dard). In July of 1900, they began taking donations. In 1901, money was collected from Ahmadi’s for the building of Minaratul Masih (See Dard), a detailed list of the donors (101 people) was created later on. The kiln was begun on April 22nd, 1901. In 1902, MGA and his team began to build the minaret in Masjid Aqsa, however, after lots of funds were collected, and they even made a list of the donors (See Dard).
MGA allegedly laid the foundation stone of the Minaratul Masih on March 13th, 1903. However, soon thereafter (1904-ish), the construction stopped, the minaret was barely a few feet high (see Dard). On April-17-1903 Buddhei Shah, Ghanayya Lal, Bur Singh, Nara’in and Dasawar Singh complained to the authorities that the Minaret was being constructed only to tease and annoy them and that it would dishonour and disgrace them because it would expose their houses to the gaze of the sightseers who would come from all parts of the country. They submitted a site plan on a big sheet of tracing paper to show the position of the various houses in the neighbourhood of the Minaret under construction. They said that MGA could build the Minaret anywhere else. On April 27th, 1903, Hukam Chand, Labhu Ram, Salig Ram, Mirza Ali Sher Baig and Mirza Imam Din again complained to the authorities against the construction of the Minaret. The two last-named said that the mosque was a Waqf for all Muslims and that by
raising there a private building for sightseeing MGA was encroaching upon their rights. The work of excavation actually commenced on March 3rd, 1903. Up till now the building has cost Rs. 1,100. The total expenditure, including the making of bricks, is Rs. 4300.
It remained in this condition until 1916-1917, at that point, the 2nd Khalifa completed the building of the minaret. The ROR of Aug-1932 has an extensive essay on the “Minarat ul Maseeh”. In 1939, the Mirza was accepting 100 rupees for Ahmadi’s to get their named written on it.
Extended Commentary
MGA’s team of writers realized that MGA does not fit the Hadees brought by Imam Muslim, narrated by Nuwas Bin Sumaan RA. MGA resorted to an easy solution and rejected that altogether. To support his arguments he gave countless arguments in his books. For example Roohani Khazain vol 4 page 115, roohani khazain vol 3 page 219, RK vol 3 Page 199, RK vol 3 page 220, RK vol 3 page 222, RK vol 3 page 173 and many more. He called it extremely weak, illogical, contradictory to Ijmai of Sahab, even Imam Muslim himself has abrogated that Hadees, Nuwas Bin Sumas has been decievd about that Hadees, etc etc. In nutshell he tries his level best to prove that Hadees of Minarat Ul Maseeh has no value and it is not trust worthy at all (you can see scans from his books). Then all of sudden he decides to construct Minarat Ul Maseeh (1900-1902 era) so that he show his presence near that Minar as Narrated by Hazrat Nuwas Bin Sumas RA and prove himself Maseeh. For this construction he started to raise funds (CHANDA). Now he started to give argument in the support of same Hadees and goes to an extend by saying that there are two signs of Maseeh. One is in skies that solar and Lunar eclipse and on earth Minarat Ul Maseeh. This minara will be complete blessings of Maseeh wil spread in far world, curse of Satan will be vanish with the light of this Minarat Ul Maseeh etc. Now he tries his level best that as if this Hadees is of strongest narration. This can be seen in Majmooa Ishteharaat vol 3 page 314 onwards (Scans below). You can well imagine the mental condition of this man. And guess what… pity thing is he never got a chance to appear before that Minara which he started to construct. He died before the completion of construction. ALLAH ALMIGHTY did not gave him chance to produce fake sign even.|
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