Intro
Per “The Light” of Aug-1925, Mirza Daud Baig was living in San Francisco.
In the Lahore Ahmadiyya English magazine The Light a letter was published in the issue for 8 December 1927 in this connection written by a member of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement from San Francisco who looked after Maulvi Barakatullah in his dying days. I have made it available at this link.
The writer of the letter is Mirza Daud Baig. He was the older son of Dr. Mirza Yacub Baig, the well-known prominent follower of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, and a founding member of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Anjuman. Mirza Daud Baig returned to India a couple of years later, and spent most of the last years of his life in Turkey, having married a Turkish woman while still in India. (He was also my wife’s maternal uncle, so we personally know some details of his life.)_____________________________________________________________________________________________
1925
Rule of Mammon in the USA (A letter to Dr. Mirza Yaqub Beg from his son, Mirza Daud Beg) – Islam Ahmadiyya – alahmadiyya.org
Rule of Mammon in the USA
A letter to Dr. Mirza Yaqub Beg from his son, Mirza Daud Beg
The Light (Pakistan), 1st August 1925 Issue (Vol. 4, No. 15, p. 1)
Here is an extract from a letter headed, New York City, 19th June, 1925, which our brother, Dr Mirza Yaqub Beg, L.M.S. [Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery], has received from his son, Mirza Daud Beg, who recently crossed from England to the new world on a holiday trip. The letter pithily depicts the money craze, deplorable absence of home life and complete spiritual bankruptcy which is prevailing in America. One may pertinently ask the American Missions in India what they are doing here when their own home is going from bad to worse.
“You doubtless know the geographical position of this city so I need say nothing about that.
This is probably the best planned large city on the globe. In population it is the second largest, and in extent the largest city in the world.
Here the streets and lanes have no names but they are numbered. I am told that this is true of almost all the cities of the United States. New York has about a dozen or more large streets called Avenues (11th Ave., 12th Ave., etc.), which run parallel north and south through the entire length of the city. They are separated from each other by a single block of buildings and connected with each other by Streets which have these blocks on either sides of them. These Streets also run parallel to each other and are at right angles to the Avenues. There are about 150 (1–150th Street) or more of these Streets.
The mode of locomotion is trains, overhead or elevated railway, subway trams, buses, taxies, and other conveyances.
The people are to be seen in a mad rush all the time. They are too busy making money. Their only concern and ambition seems to be that of making money — by means fair or foul does not concern them.
There are to be seen men of all nationalities and all colours.
The life is too artificial; nothing seems to be natural; in fact, they live too artificially to be really happy.
Our civilisation may not have so much of the outward show, but it has, I am convinced, a sound basis, and there I think it is more stable. There seems to be hardly any family life here. Why, there is hardly anybody who eats at home; nobody cooks. The restaurants are packed and they are to be seen at every step, every nook and corner. They are too busy — both the men and women work.
Work is a good thing, but this kind ruins the home life, and a proof of that can be seen in daily divorces. Both the parties are too independent to pull on properly. There is nothing that can beat our family life at its best. I am convinced it is not showy but it certainly is stable.
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The story
http://ahmadiyya.org/WordPress/2016/11/18/lahore-ahmadi-tends-to-maulvi-barakatullah-in-san-francisco-in-last-days-of-his-life-in-1927/
Maulvi Barakatullah (1854-1927) was an Indian Muslim revolutionary who campaigned for the independence of India from several countries outside India. Bhopal University in India was re-named after him as Barkatullah University. He spent the last few months of his life in the USA, died in San Francisco and was buried in Sacramento. See Wikipedia article on his life.
In the Lahore Ahmadiyya English magazine The Light a letter was published in the issue for 8 December 1927 in this connection written by a member of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement from San Francisco who looked after Maulvi Barakatullah in his dying days. I have made it available at this link.
The writer of the letter is Mirza Daud Baig. He was the older son of Dr Mirza Yaqub Baig, the well-known prominent follower of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, and a founding member of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Anjuman. Mirza Daud Baig returned to India a couple of years later, and spent most of the last years of his life in Turkey, having married a Turkish woman while still in India. (He was also my wife’s maternal uncle, so we personally know some details of his life.)
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Links and Related Essay’s
Who is Dr. Mirza Yaqub Beg (1872-1936)? The eventual Lahori-Ahmadi
The Hope Bulletin, May-2008 edition
Click to access hope200805_lastdaysmgamirzayaqubbeg.pdf
https://www.muslim.org/books/m-kabir/mjk3-4b.htm
https://www.muslim.org/intro/pioneers/myb.htm
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2020/04/16/the-death-of-mirza-ghulam-ahmad-from-ahmadi-sources/
http://exahmadi.blogspot.com/2013/12/death-of-mirza-ghulam-qadiani-according.html
http://www.irshad.org/exposed/death.php
http://exahmadi.blogspot.com/2013/12/death-of-mirza-ghulam-qadiani-according.html
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2017/09/29/hyat-e-nasir-by-mir-nasir-nawab-the-full-pdf-book/
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2020/04/13/what-is-lecture-ludhiana-by-mirza-ghulam-ahmad-1905/
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2017/01/16/hyat-e-nasir-1927-1st-edition-vs-2nd-edition/
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2016/12/02/mirza-ghulam-ahmad-died-of-an-opium-overdose-1908/
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2018/12/17/lekh-rams-murder-the-details-aryasamaj-lekhram/
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2018/03/31/batalvis-children-were-brought-to-qadian-by-force/
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April 12, 2021 at 3:34 pm
Hello sir
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021, 4:11 AM ahmadiyyafactcheckblog wrote:
> Ahmadiyyafactcheckblog posted: “Intro The Lahori-Ahmadi’s began operating > in America soon after the Qadiani-Ahmadi’s. By 1927, the brother of Dr. > Mirza Yacub Baig was living in San Francisco, California, USA. Thus, he was > spreading the mission of the Lahori-Ahmadi’s in the USA. ____” >