Intro
My brother Hani Tahir has found and translated many writings of MGA in terms of how the plague was ravaging Qadian even after MGA had prophesied that Qadian would remain protected.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (MGA) specifically claimed that biological epidemics had been unleashed on planet Earth as a result of the majority of humans rejecting his wild claims of prophethood/messnegership, being the second coming of Jesus (as) and etc (see page 17 of “”Defence Against the Plague & A Criterion for the Elect of God” {published in April of 1902}, online english edition of 2015). In this book, MGA claimed that this plague was a punishment from his God and it would not be lifted from Earth “until people remove from their minds the thoughts that surge therein; that is to say, until they accept the commissioned one and Messenger of God. Almighty God will guard Qadian against the scourge of plague so that people should recognise that this was so because the Messenger and Apostle of God lives in Qadian”. MGA also claimed to have received a revelation to the effect that Qadian would not be touched with plague in 1902 and included it in this book. In typical backward-village standards, MGA boasted that he had predicted the spread of the plague as early as 1880-1884 in the Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya, however, no such reference exists(see page 17 of “”Defence Against the Plague & A Criterion for the Elect of God”, online english edition of 2015). He even claimed that an indication of the plague was given in “The Green Announcement” of 1888, again another lie. MGA had a habit of making words mean whatever he needed them to mean, whether it was his older books, or the Quran/hadith. MGA also claimed that the plague would remain for 70 years. (See Dafi-ul-Bala, page 18, online english edition).
Check out my thorough analysis of MGA and the plague herein. We found some old references on an old ahmadiyya awareness website and posted them in the below also.
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1902
(Dafi-ul-Bala, P. 10-11)
“He (Allah) shall protect and defend Qadian against plague even though it will be on the rampage for seventy years, for Qadian is the dwelling place of His Apostle and in this are signs for nations.” (See page 18, online english edition).
It seems that the plague began to kill people in Qadian since the year 1904, as MGA wrote in a letter:
“The elder ‘Guthan’ had suffered a fever, so she was removed out of the house. But in my opinion she is not infected with plague, but she was removed as a matter of precaution. Also Mr Mohammed Dean was infected and a boil has appeared as well, for this reason he was also removed too. What is happening is that a few days ago the plague has started to get worse here also, but the situation is better than before … In this village, most of the children who were previously sick or weak have died… and now the main thing is that the plague has not retreated significantly. In our house, one of the female guests was infected today” (letter to Nawab Khan on April 6, 1904)
_______________________________________________________________________________________________Maktubat-i-Ahmadiyya, Vol 5, P. 115
“Today, another woman who was visiting us and had come from Delhi was also struck with plague. I also fell seriously ill and I felt that between me and death were only a few seconds.”
_______________________________________________________________________________________________In June 1905, Abdul Qader Biddle wrote a letter to MGA, in which he said:
“You have predicted that the plague will not spread in Qadian and that none of your followers will be afflicted with this deadly disease, but what happened is the opposite.”
So MGA wrote to him:
“I did not predict that no one from Qadian will die, and the prophecy about Qadian is as follows: “If it were not for the honour, the status would have been destroyed” i.e. Allah the Almighty is saying that if you were not dear to Me, I would have destroyed all the people in Qadian, because most of the people of this village are wicked and are of evil nature…”
MGA then continued:
“The prophecy says that Allah will save Qadian from mass destruction, meaning that Qadian will not be fully destroyed like other villages in these suburbs that were destroyed leaving no remains behind” (Letter to Abdul Qader Biddle published in Al Badr newspaper on June 22, 1905)
There is no doubt that MGA was lying when he alleged that the other villages in these suburbs were destroyed leaving no remains behind. Although I have no statistics on the number of fatalities in Qadian or their numbers in surrounding villages, yet it is clear that in Qadian they were more, because of the following evidences:
Firstly, what was published in the same letter itself, where MGA says:
“The owner of the newspaper “Pisa”… published a list of the residents of Qadian who died of plague, and in fact many of them did not die of plague, and we cannot deny that some other people may die of plague in Qadian at other times, but not as much as the newspaper “Pesa” says. It is essential that people in Qadian should die because of the plague so that the prophecy can be fulfilled. So from where did you hear that I published a revelation indicating that people would not die of plague in Qadian? And your saying that ‘Shkarbour’ Darul Aman meaning Qadian, this is mockery and misconduct before Allah the Almighty. We do not know what the Divine power is concealing concerning “Shkarpoor” after the offensive words that came out of your mouth (a letter published in Al Badr Newspaper on the 22nd of June 1905)
So as the newspaper has mentioned the list of names of those who died of the plague, and MGA was unable to deny these names, nor to give an example of a name that is untrue or unrealistic, then the list is undoubtedly true.
Secondly, as for saying that some of them died because of another reason, he did not give examples for this, which indicates the invalidity of what he said. Thirdly, MGA did not object to what Abdul Qader said concerning Shkarpour that it was Darul Aman referring to Qadian, he even confirmed this when he said: “We do not know what the Divine power is concealing concerning “Shkarpoor” after the offensive words that came out of your mouth”!!
So this text contains three proofs that Qadian has suffered from the plague more than other places. And this must happen, because MGA’s prophecies are fulfilled in reverse.
The fourth proof is in the following revelation that MGA was forced to fabricate in 1906 and his interpretation of it. And that is:
“The diseases will spread, and the souls will be lost.”
And MGA said commenting on this revelation:
“I have received this revelation before, and I received it today also, and I am worried about it, because I do not know if it is related to Qadian or the Punjab.” (‘Al Hakam’, Volume 10, Issue no. 12, dated 10/4/1906, p. 1)
The fabrication of a revelation concerning the spread of the plague in Qadian in particular indicates that the plague had actually spread in it more than other places. Otherwise he would not have fabricated a revelation regarding his worry about Qadian in particular; even if he brought this up as a possibility. This is because MGA predicts things after they happen, so he wanted here to cover up what happened to Qadian regarding the spread of the plague in a very noticeable way.
Thus, it is clear that Qadian was afflicted by the plague more than other places.
We are very much inclined to think that Mubarak the son of MGA has died of the plague in September 1907, as we have shown in a previous article.
As for the reason why MGA has not died of plague, it is because cholera was more humiliating for him as he believes, So Allah chose for him what was appropriate for him, and He caused his son and his wife and her father to relate the last hours of MGA, which indicated Allah’s displeasure with MGA as was the case with the Pharaoh, and to bring to light the similarity between MGA and the Pharaoh; as both were unjust tyrants who enslaved their people and followers.
Hani Tahir- 15th of April 2018
_____________________________________________________________________________________________The plague destroys Qadian and kills the most important in the house …
Episode 2:
On the 4th of May 1904, Maulwi Muhammad Ali, the director and editor of the ‘Review of Religions’ magazine, fell ill and he had headache and fever symptoms. He thought that these were the symptoms of the plague. When this reached MGA, he went immediately to the Maulwi and said to him: “If you are afflicted with the plague while you are in my house, then the Divine revelation that descended upon me which says: ‘I will protect everyone in the house’ is not true and all what I am doing is also not true.” Then he checked his pulse and assured him that he had no fever at all. (Malfoozat, quoting ‘Al Badr’ 8-16/5/1904, p. 4)
_______________________________________________________________________________________________Ten months later someone who was to MGA on the same status like Maulwi Muhammad Ali, died of plague. This was the editor of Al Badr newspaper, which quoted MGA’s statement above.
MGA wrote:
“Today, 20/3/1905, Muhammad Afdhal was afflicted by the plague, and at that very moment I received about someone – Allah knows who – the following revelation: ‘the prey of death’.
Muhammad Afdhal died on 21/3/1905. (Al Tathkirah, quoting the notebook of the revelations of MGA) take heed, O you who have sight. Hani Tahir – 16th of April 2018
_____________________________________________________________________________________________But MGA hid the reason for his death in the announcement, where he wrote in the announcement about the appointment of Mufti Muhammad Sadiq as director of the newspaper ‘Al-Badr’:
“Munshi Muhammad Afdhal, the director of Al Badr newspaper, has died as Allah willed and determined” The humble servant, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, 23 Muharram Al Haraam 1323 AH, 30 March 1905. (Malfoozat, quoting Al-Hakam, 17/4/1905)
Note that in his publication of this announcement, MGA hid that the cause of Muhammad Afdhal’s death was the plague, but in his notebook he wrote that he died of plague. Ten months earlier, he testified that if Muhammad Ali died of plague, then MGA’s revelation was false. The son of Muhammad Afdhal also died by plague before the death of his father, MGA wrote in a letter:
“The plague began to intensify in Qadian, the son of Mian Muhammad Afdhal, the editor of ‘Al Badr’ magazine is on the verge of death, he caught cold and pneumonia, and it seems that he is breathing his last breaths, and crying and mourning is in all directions. We call upon Allah to cause the descent of His grace… In this case I think that it is very fitting that you do not come at all until the end of April 1905, a sword is doing its work in the world, may Allah have mercy on it. Everything else is alright by the Grace of Allah. (a letter to Nawwab Khan without a date, but the date of the letter before it, is the 12th of January 1905)
It is very clear that the plague has destroyed Qadian more than other places, to increase the credibility of the fact that the prophecies of MGA were fulfilled in reverse, and most probably the son of MGA died of the plague, while months after that MGA himself followed him and died of cholera.
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Chronologically, it all started with MGA’s announcement of 2-6-1898, which formed a portion of the book, Ayyam-us-Sulh, it was published in both Persian and Urdu. The Persian edition was published on August 1, 1898, but the Urdu edition was not published until January 1, 1899, because of the need to provide answers to some additional questions in the book. MGA and his team then decided to hold a meeting of Ahmadi’s on May 2, 1898, in Qadian. About a thousand people attended the meeting (See Hidden Treasures). Shortly thereafter, MGA and his team wrote a book entitled, “A Revealed cure for Bubonic Plague” (1898). Full PDF—A revealed Cure for Bubonic Plague. In this book, MGA and his team prescribed 2 medicines against the plague, “Tiryaq-e-Ilahi” and “Marham-i-Esa”. Ayyamus-Sulah was published on Jan-1-1899, and it contains many things about the plague, its not in english, thus we don’t exactly what it contains, the same announcement of 2-6-1898 is also included. Hani Tahir (at the 18:45 mark) tells us that in Ayyam-us-Sulh, MGA wrote a revelation which said, “O Messiah of this world, our impression”, MGA then quotes Quran, 8:33 (8:34 in the Ahmadi quranic numbering system) and says that this revelations means the same as 8:33, i.e., that Allah would not punish people as long as MGA was among them. In Oct of 1899, Ahmadiyya medicines were banned, however, Ahmadiyya leadership seems to have filed an appeal, however, the appeal was rejected and the ban was held up in 1900 (see Walter, page 42). By 1902, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (MGA) specifically claimed that biological pandemics had been unleashed on planet Earth as a result of the majority of humans rejecting his wild claims of prophethood/messengership, being the second coming of Jesus (as) and etc (see page 17 of “”Defence Against the Plague & A Criterion for the Elect of God” {published in April of 1902} online english edition of 2015), when his opponents died of plague, MGA boasted about it in many books, he even quoted the Quran and wrote: “We do not punish a people until a Prophet has been sent to them.’-(Bani Isra’il, 17:16)(see page 10, “Tajalliyat-e-Ilahiyyah”,1922). In “”Defence Against the Plague & A Criterion for the Elect of God”, MGA claimed that this plague was a punishment from his God and it would not be lifted from Earth “until people remove from their minds the thoughts that surge therein; that is to say, until they accept the commissioned one and Messenger of God. Almighty God will guard Qadian against the scourge of plague so that people should recognise that this was so because the Messenger and Apostle of God lives in Qadian” (see page 11). MGA also claimed to have received a revelation to the effect that Qadian would not be touched with plague in 1902 and included it in this book. In typical backward-village standards, MGA boasted that he had predicted the spread of the plague as early as 1880-1884 in the Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya, however, no such reference exists(see page 17 of “”Defence Against the Plague & A Criterion for the Elect of God”, online english edition of 2015). He even claimed that an indication of the plague was given in “The Green Announcement” of 1888, again another lie. MGA had a habit of making words mean whatever he needed them to mean, whether it was his older books, or the Quran/hadith. “Noah’s Ark” was published in October of 1902, MGA medicines were on the verge of a full ban and MGA began to urge his followers to give in and take the British colonists’ vacinnation, or innoculation, however, most indian’s feared that the British government had purposely started this plague as an attempt to control the population and thus never got vaccinated. MGA wrote that he had previously ordered his followers to not get vaccinated only because of messages from his God, but now he was urging all Ahmadi’s to get the vaccination. MGA also seems to have amended his prophecy of just 4-5 months previously, and amended it to include only those people who were living in the 4-walls of his house, which meant his workers and family, among the workers who lived with MGA were Muhammad Ali, Noorudin, Maulvi Abdul Karim, Muhammad Ahsan Amrohi and a few others. MGA refused to get vaccinated, and all the people in his house would also do the same, that was about 50-60 people. He continues to walk-back his prophecy on the total protection of Qadian, he says that #Ahmadis who don’t fully abide by their bait, may also die, he even went so far as to say that a few residents of Qadian might also die. He goes on to say that non-Ahmadi’s will die at a higher percentage than Ahmadi’s and people will run to join Ahmadiyya as a result of this plague and thus save themselves from death. In November of 1902, in MGA’s book, “Ijaz-e-Ahmadi”, MGA claimed that the Jews were punished via plague during the time of the first messiah, and likewise people would be punished a second time in the same manner for rejecting the 2nd messiah (See page 37, online english edition), he even wrote a poem in this book wherein he asserted that he prayed that the plague would destroy the entire country. In February of 1903, in MGA’s book, “Nasim-e-Da‘wat”, MGA continued “walking-back” his prophecy about the protection of Qadian, thus proving that the plahue had hit Qadian by the Fall of 1902. Interestingly, Ahmadiyya sources report from historical sources that there was a huge increase in Ahmadi’s at this moment, the population of Ahmadi’s jumped from just a few hundred to almost 300,000, however, this was a total lie, these numbers were totally falsified in an attempt to show the world that people were joining Ahmadiyya as a result of the plague. In April of 1904, the Talim ul Islam High School was forced to shut down as a result of plague. Later, in 1904, people in Qadian started dying, even in MGA’s own house Muhammad Ali (who was a teacher at the Talim ul Islam High school seemed to have been infected with the plague and barely survived. In the early part of 1905, an Ahmadi, the editor of the Al-Badr, Muhammad Afdhal died of plague, Mufti Muhammad Sadiq was immediately promoted to editor in response. By the summer of 1905, MGA backpeddled on his prophecy again, since the plague was raging in Qadian and claimed that his revelations meant that the entire village of Qadian would not be destroyed. Maulvi Abdul Karim also died in 1905, in October, he died abruptly and most likely of plague, however, Ahmadiyya sources have covered up this story. Farquhar reports that by roughly 1904, the British govt. banned MGA’s quack remedy and thus put an end to his medical career (“Modern Religous Movements in India” (1915). “Marham-i-Esa” seems to have survived however, and was marketed in the Al-Fazl until roughly 1947. After 1906, the plague seems to have totally left British India. However, the Spanish Flu hit in 1918 and the Khalifa was infected and almost died, he even wrote out his will and cancelled the Jalsa of 1918. Nevertheless, MGA mentioned the plague many times in 1906-1907 in Haqiqatal Wahy (the word plague appears 412 times) and in Barahin i Ahmadiyya Vol.5 (the word plague appears 42 times), in the BA5, he wrote a poem and said, “”You even sent the plague for my help, To fulfil those Signs which are the basis of truth.””. Another book, “Nuzul ul Masih” (published in 1909) also contains lots of references to the plague. The last book of MGA was published in 1922, “DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS” (Tajalliyat-e-Ilahiyyah), MGA and his team of writers claimed that the plague was supposed to come via God’s promise. Even in the English-ROR of April-1911, Ahmadi’s presented MGA’s prophecy of plague.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________Links and Related Essays
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2017/02/12/hani-tahir-on-the-plague-and-ahmadiyya-and-the-british-india/
MGA tried to cure plague in British-India with a super-opium medicine that didn’t work
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, #Ahmadiyya, plague and #coronavirus #covid19 – ahmadiyyafactcheckblog
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