Intro
The only reference that we have found thus far on MGA and the idea that Adam (as) wasn’t the first man on Earth is from just a week before MGA died. Furthermore, whether or not Adam (as) was the first man or not doesn’t appear in any of MGA’s books, this quote comes from Malfuzat-10, per Ahmadiyya sources, Malfuzat was published for the first time in the 1970’s and from Rabwah. Nevertheless, we have provided the quote in the below. In this quote MGA seems to have been interviewed by a Professor Wragge, portions of that interview were published later in 1938. MGA was also calling himself as born as a twin and claimed that Adam (as) was also born as a twin.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________The quote
Malfooza’at Vol. 10, Page 426
“””An English scholar of Astronomy, Professor Wragge met the Promised Messiah on 12th May and 18th May 1908 in Lahore and asked him a few questions as reported in Malfooza’at Vol. 10, Pages 353 and 426. Among other questions he asked: “It is written in the Bible that Adam or say the first man was born in Jeehoon, Seehon and belonged to that country. Are, then, all the mankind, that is found in different parts of the world like America and Australia, the descendants of the same Adam?” To this question the Promised Messiah replied, “We do not follow the Bible in holding that the world began with the birth of Adam six or seven thousand years ago, and that before this there was nothing, and God was, as it were idle and without work. Neither do we claim that all mankind who are now found in different parts of the earth, are the progeny of the self-same Adam. On the Contrary we hold that this Adam was not the first man. Mankind existed even before him, as is hinted by the Quran itself, when it says to Adam, “I am about to place a Khalifa in the earth.” As Khalifa means successor, it is clear that man existed even before Adam. Hence we cannot say whether the original inhabitants of America, Australia etc. are the progeny of this last Adam or some other Adam gone before him.””””
_______________________________________________________________________________________________A hadith which proves that humans were created in heaven, and then were banished to Earth
Bukhari Volume 8 : Book 76 : Hadith 570 :
Narrated by Anas:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Allah will gather all the people on the Day of Resurrection and they will say, ‘Let us request someone to intercede for us with our Lord so that He may relieve us from this place of ours.’ Then they will go to Adam and say, ‘You are the one whom Allah created with His Own Hands, and breathed in you of His soul, and ordered the angels to prostrate to you; so please intercede for us with our Lord.’ Adam will reply, ‘I am not fit for this undertaking, and will remember his sin, and will say, ‘Go to Noah, the first Apostle sent by Allah’s They will go to him and he will say, ‘I am not fit for this undertaking’, and will remember his sin and say, ‘Go to Abraham whom Allah took as a Khalil. They will go to him (and request similarly). He will reply, ‘I am not fit for this undertaking,’ and will remember his sin and say, ‘Go to Moses to whom Allah spoke directly.’ They will go to Moses and he will say, ‘I am not fit for this undertaking,’ and will remember his sin and say, ‘Go to Jesus.’ They will go to him, and he will say, ‘I am not fit for this undertaking, go to Muhammad as Allah has forgiven his past and future sins.’ They will come to me and I will ask my Lord’s permission, and when I see Him, I will fall down in prostration to Him, and He will leave me in that state as long as (He) Allah will, and then I will be addressed. ‘Raise up your head (O Muhammad)! Ask, and your request will be granted, and say, and your saying will be listened to; intercede, and your intercession will be accepted.’ Then I will raise my head, and I will glorify and praise my Lord with a saying(i.e. invocation) He will teach me, and then I will intercede, Allah will fix a limit for me (i.e., certain type of people for whom I may intercede), and I will take them out of the (Hell) Fire and let them enter Paradise. Then I will come back (to Allah) and fall in prostration, and will do the same for the third and fourth times till no-one remains in the (Hell) Fire except those whom the Qur’an has imprisoned therein.” (The sub-narrator, Qatada used to say at that point, “…those upon whom eternity (in Hell) has been imposed.”) (See Hadith No. 3, Vol 6).
______________________________________________________________________________________________Links and Related Essay’s
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claimed that Adam (as) was born a twin (in pairs), totally unislamic
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2017/01/25/mirza-ghulam-ahmad-and-his-team-went-back-and-forth-in-terms-of-if-jesus-had-a-biological-father-or-not/
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2017/10/07/noor-uddin-secretly-disagreed-with-mirza-ghulam-ahmad-on-the-birth-of-esa-as/
http://www.muslim.org/books/f-ahm-mv/ch12.htm#u
https://www.alislam.org/library/books/Fountain-of-Christianity.pdf
http://www.muslim.org/sa-case/evidence/s16.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Lindley_Wragge
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/?s=Sadiq
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/?s=Zikr-e-Habib
Related ROR archives
The Review of Religions (ROR) of November 1931, Front page and pages 290-291
The Review of Religions (ROR) of January 1932, pages 30-34+images
“A Misconception removed” by MGA from 1901, published in english in the ROR of 1922
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