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Dr. Sayyad Mir Muhammad Isma‘il or spelled Syed Meer Muhammad Ismail and Dr. Mir Muhammad Ismail, he was the younger brother of MGA’s second wife Nusrat Jehan, and the elder son of Mir Nasir Nawab. He had a younger brother named Muhammad Ishaq. Per MGA, Dr. Mir Muhammad Isma’il was roughly 10 years old in 1887. Thus he was born in 1877 and only 7-years old when his elder sister got married to MGA, Ahmadiyya sources are conflicted on his date of birth, some sources give 18 July 1881 as his DOB (see the Al-hakam archives, online via twitter).

He claims that he was a ruthless and vicious vagabong from 1887 to 1892. He seems to have converted to Ahmadiyya in 1892 with his father, Mir Nasir Nawab. In 1896-1897, he is listed as an official companion of MGA and in-fact on the list of the first 313 (see Dard, page 846).

In 1923, He narrated some famous traditions about MGA which were recorded into Seeratul Mahdi (1923).

He had 2 wives, his first wife of Syed Shaukhat Sultana, who was a close relative, most likely a cousin, however, there were no children from this marriage. He married again to the daughter of Mirza Muhammad Shafi (a member of the Sadr Anjuman in Qadian), his daughter’s name was Amtul Latif. They had 10 children together, 7 girls and 3 boys. She was born in 1902 and died on 16 September 1964. On the instigation/arrangement of Hazrat Amaan Jan (nusrat Jehan) Mir M Ismaeel married her in 1917 at the time when he was assistant surgeon in Civil Hospital of Paniput.

He died in July of 1947.
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Chapter 2 of the Quran was revealed to Muhammad just after he arrived in Medina in roughly 2 A.H. and became the General/Leader of the “greater-medina-area”. 2:62 indirectly tells us that there is NO compulsion (see 2:256 also) for any person to join Islam or serve in the military.  These verses seem to be a “peace-time” teaching of Islam. In fact, this entire Chapter teaches Muslims how to live in a diverse environment and lays the grass-roots for the most basic Islamic teaching, justice. Furthermore, the context on this verse is the people of Musa (as) and those Christians, Sabians and Jews who existed before Muhammad (saw). Later on, Mirza Tahir Ahmad (the 4th Khalifa) contradicted the view of MGA.
Continue reading “Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and 2:62, the “Salvation” or “status” of Non-Muslim’s in an islamic state?” →

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We found this essay on the ROR website and thought that we might archive it here. The globetrotter was Abdullah R. Scott.
Continue reading “A globe-trotter who visited Qadian, India in November 1932 and stayed there for about 7 weeks, recounts his unique experience” →

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Ord-XX didn’t pass as a law until 16 months later in August of 1985. Feel free to read our other essays on this topic. We have found an issue of the ROR of 26th July 1986 which refers to this passing. Watch my tik tok on this herein. Also read my other essay on Ord-XX herein.

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Dear readers, as we continue to research Ahmadiyya newspapers, we have came across a rare Al-Fazl edition which was published from Lahore, Pakistan, Edition No. 1., 15th September, 1947. In 1954, Mirza Mahmud Ahmad, the Khalifa claimed that Al-Fazl wasn’t an official “Ahmadiyya” newspaper. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad had also denied that Al-Hakam was an “official” newspaper back in 1898. In this same era, the Khalifa prophecied that he would eventually return to Qadian, this prophecy is still pending.

Continue reading “The first ever Al-Fazl edition published from Lahore in 1947, Ahmadiyya Khalifa asks for 50% of your earnings” →

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He was an Indian Ahmadi Muslim astronomer. Alladin received in 1963 a PhD at the University of Chicago. He was among the famous 100 Astronomers of the world and served as the educational advisor to former President APJ Abdul Kalam of India. He wrote many books, penned hundreds of articles and published more than 50 research papers. He then went as a professor at the Osmania University in Hyderabad, where he was Director of the Center of Advanced Study in Astronomy. In 1998, he finally wrote about Ahmadiyya and picked the topic of the eclipses. He was the president of Sadar Anjuman Ahmadiyya, the highest body of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamat in India under the Khalifatul Masih V Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad for 4 years. He was referred as Ulul Albab by Mirza Masroor Ahmad which means one of those gifted with understanding.

Continue reading “Who is Dr. Hafiz Saleh Muhammad Alladin (born 3 March 1931 in Hyderabad, India; died 20 March 2011 in Amritsar)” →

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MGA and his team of writers seem to have sent Rashid Rida (and his team of editors) a copy of “Ijazul Masih” (1901) to the offices of al-Manar (his newspaper in Egypt). Per Ahmadiyya sources a copy of “Ijazul Masih” (1901) was also sent to al-Manazir and al-Hilal (See Hidden Treasures). Riḍā attacked Ghulam Ahmad for his claim to be a “shade for the Prophetic miracle” (basically prophethood). Riḍā wrote this in a fatwā to a question sent to al-Manār by a certain Aḥmad Muḥammad al-Alfī, a local Shafiʿī scholar in the town of Tukh in northern Egypt. Al-Manār, 4, no. 12 (31 Aug. 1901), 460–468. Rashid Rida also commented in his newspaper about the lack of were against the Arabic syntax and usage and how the book contained Arabic phrases contrary to normal usage and about how ridiculous the challenge of the MGA was and whether anyone could produce a book like it in 70 days. Rada said that many scholars could write a book like it in seven days. This issue of al-Manar was splashed in the Rawalpindi magazine, Chaudhwin Sadi (See Hidden Treasures). The very next year, MGA and his team of writers sent him a new book, “Al-Huda wal-Tabsirah li-man yara” (Guidance for Perceiving Minds)(June-1902), which was half-urdu and half-arabic. The urdu portion is a full on attack of Rashid Rida and a death prophecy, they also called Rida as “jealous” and “arrogant”.

In 1913, despite harsh critiques of Ahmadiyya doctrines, Rashid Rida, in his al-Manār magazine, in some instances, hailed the conversions of Europeans to Islam in the Woking mosque. The above-mentioned Baron Lord Headley and his conversion occupied a prominent place in al-Manār, despite Headley’s known close connection with the Ahmadis in London (See Umar Ryad, “Muslims in Interwar Europe: A Transcultural Historical Perspective”, 2016, pp. 47-87 (41 pages).

Ahmadiyya sources claim that Rashid Rida mentioned this death prophecy to Jalal-ud Din Shams in roughly 1930-1931 as Shams was working in Israel. Shams responded that it was never a death prophecy (a lie), it was a prophecy about Rida not responding to MGA’s challenges. However, Rashid Rida did respond to the arabic portion of “Al-Huda wal-Tabsirah li-man yara” (Guidance for Perceiving Minds)(June-1902) and even printed a major portion of the book relating to the migration of Jesus to Kashmir in his journal and observed that it was not supported by reasons and record (see Hidden Treasures). His next interaction with the Ahmadiyya movement happened in 1912 whilst in British-India. He was also fast friends with Lahori-Ahmadi’s like Khwaja Kamaluddin, however, they did eventually fall out. Another strange Muslim was Muhammad Abduh, he was also from Egypt and wrote that Eisa (As) is dead and never coming back, he was like a semi-bahai. In the 1930’s, Rashid Rida completed his Tafsir and mentioned MGA’s belief that Eisa (as) went to India (see the scans in the below).

In Nov-2025, Maulvi Razi streamed live on the True Islam Uk channel and at 42:29, Maulvi Razi mentioned Rashid Rida and claimed that Rida was the teacher of Albani.

Continue reading “Rashid Rida vs. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1901-1903 era)” →

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The name means ‘Rising Sun’. It is a book by Muhammad Ahsan Amrohi, one of the assistants of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. It was directed at Mehr Ali Shah, and according to the latter, was full of errors. This book seems to be totally missing from all the records.

Shamsul Bazgaha
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MGA’s confrontation with Pir Mehr Ali Shah started in roughly 1899. Pir Mehr Ali Shah had a book vs. MGA published in May of 1899.  It was printed at the Mustafa’i Press, Lahore in Ramadan 1317 A.H. Maulawi Nur-ud-Din read a few pages of this book on February 17th, 1900, and wrote a letter to Pir Mihr Ali Shah the next day. It was written in this book that if any one wanted to say anything about this book he must refer to authentic commentaries such as Ibni Jarir and Ibni Kathir and also to the true Hadith or he must base his arguments upon the Holy Quran, which should be acceptable to the great and learned people who are masters of language and rhetorics (page 8). Though the book is written in Urdu, yet the writer has occasionally employed Arabic also to show his learning. So, Maulawi Nur-ud-Din asked the Pir eleven questions in his letter (see Dard). But this book, “Shams ul Hidaya” wasn’t totally written by Pir Mehr Ali Shah, in fact, one of the disciples of the Pir wrote much of, and this was admitted to by the Pir himself. Maulavi Muhammad Ghazi had actually written the book, as Noorudin asked for references, the Pir told Noorudin that he should ask Maulavi Muhammad Ghazi.
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