Intro
Fateh Masih was the person who told MGA to make his claim of being the Mahdi based on the eclipses of March and April 1894 (See the scans in the below from the Nur Afshan). Fateh Masih also wrote this in private letters to MGA as such. He urged MGA to go to Mecca and make his claims. Fateh Masih was posted at Fatehgarh, District Gurdaspur and was working as a Christian Missionary. These were the eclipses that MGA used to solidify his claim of being the Mahdi and were written in Nurul-Haqq Part-2. However, there are authentic hadith reports from Muhammad (saw) which clearly assert that eclipses don’t signify the birth of anyone. Fateh Masih is also mentioned extensively in Nurul-Qur’an (Number II).
MGA’s interactions with Fateh Masih go back to May of 1888, this was before MGA’s wildest claims of being the Messiah were made and even before MGA created his community (See Dard). In 1893, during MGA’s written debate and death prophecy vs. Athim, Fateh Masih was listening to the news. After the prophecy expired, Fateh Masih would poke fun at MGA for losing (See Dard).
MGA also wrote a letter to Fateh Masih on February 1, 1895, in which he said that the harsh words in his answer were not used in any fit or temper but only to teach the Christian missionary how to behave decently in such matters (See Hidden Treasures).
Fateh Masih continued to poke fun at MGA for his failed death prophecy vs. Athim in the Nur Afshan (See Dard).
In late 1895, MGA seems to have dedicated his entire book, Noorul Quran, Part-2 towards Fateh Masih.
Sitting on the floor: Rev. Fateh Masih (fifth from right) and Rev. Thomas Howell Bashir (fourth from left). Anti-Islam rhetoric before and after Surma-e-Chashm-e-Arya: A glimpse into the Indian press (alhakam.org)
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