Intro
Initially, in 1891, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and his team of writers dismissed earthquakes altogether, however, after the Kangra earthquake of April 4th, 1905, MGA and his team changed. They claimed that MGA had predicted the Kangra earthquake and was predicting more (See english ROR, April 1905). They immediately invented the “doomsday-earthquake-prophecy”. However, they also began to write in a subtle way that his God can also make mistakes and thus prophecies can fail. This was in Haqiqatul tul Wahi (1906-1907), MGA also connected the doomsday prophecy with a prophecy from the same era, MGA had prophesized that a son will be born to one of his close companions, and this son will be a very decorated figure for the Jama’at and the great earthquake prophecy will happen after his birth. But the companion’s wife delivered a girl (yet another failed prophecy: “Two girls & a word” in connection with this incident). Even the odds of probability didn’t help Mirza sb with his prophecies. So when the girl was born (1907), Mirza sb was in a tough spot, so he came up with an excuse. He claimed he had prayed to Allah a lot to postpone the earthquake & after accepting his prayers Allah changed the gender of baby in the womb, because had the boy born, the earthquake would happen. And thus, the earthquake was postponed & that’s the excuse Ahmadis use today to defend this. Hani Tahir covered this prophecy herein.
However, on July 4th of 1907, 6 weeks after Haqiqatul Wahy was published, MGA gets another revelation from his God that the Earthquake will for sure happen, even during his lifetime, in other words, MGA will see it (See al-Badr).
In 1907 (Dec 27-28), MGA told Ahmadi’s that difficult days are ahead in which the world will have to face frightening adversities and calamities. God has informed me that terrible epidemics and various heavenly and earthly calamities are soon to befall. And He has already given the news that there will be a severe earthquake which will be rًeminiscent of Doomsday, concerning which God has said بغْْغتََتةًة [baghtatan] implying that the earthquake will come suddenly. There are many other terrifying prophecies that God has already given. If you could know what I am seeing, your days and nights would be consumed crying before God. In this one month, there have been three earthquakes, all of which are a harbinger (See, allegedly on 27 December 1907, See Malfuzat-10, online English edition page 82, From Badr: Allah’s chastisement commences with mildness, via al-Badr, vol. 7, no.1, p. 11, dated 9 January 1908)(See also Bro Imtiaz, 37:55 time stamp, livestreaming on Apr-4-2026).
In May of 1908, while in Lahore, before MGA died, MGA was arguing that his famous doomsday Earthquake prophecy had been averted via 2:106, and further, MGA’s God issues an order in the morning and has the full authority to change it at night (Via Malfuzat-10, online English edition, page 473).
MGA died in May of 1908, and there was no earthquake, in fact, in the BA-5, which was published in Oct. of 1908, the same prophecy was reiterated. There is a lengthy poem in this book as well about the future doomsday level earthquake.
After MGA died, Ahmadi’s were eager to fulfill his failed promises and prophecies, they immediately published Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya Vol. 5 and began to try to solve all of MGA;s failed prophecies.
In 1913, Maulvi Sher Ali lied about MGA’s revelation on Jan. 4th, 1904 and claimed it was about the losses incurred by the Ottomans via the Balkan Wars as well as their recovery, however, on second check, this prophecy never existed until 1935 (via the first Urdu edition of Tadhkirah) and it was edited to read as “Romans” instead of “Turks”. Similarly, after WW-1 had started (summer of 1914), Ahmadi writers/mullahs starting asserting that this was the earthquake that MGA had predicted, it was a war instead of an earthquake. Although the prophecy did mention the possibility that earthquake could mean something else, but there are two major problems with the World War I justification.
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It did not happen within the lifetime of MGA. The prophecy is very clear in this regard, that this has to happen within his lifetime, otherwise he is not from God.
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The prophecy says that the occurrence of this incidence will be a victory for his movement and a large number of people with enter in his Jamaat. This clearly did not happen. World War I, was not, in any way, a positive event for Jamaat and we didn’t see a major conversion afterwards.
Further, in 1922, “Divine Manifestations” was published as the final book by MGA, in this book, they discuss 5 earthquakes and this is after the Khalifa had already ascribed MGA’s earthquake prophecies elsewhere. It seems like the Khalifa was fear mongering and thus continously warning Ahmadi’s to pay chanda or they would die. MGA and his team alleged that the famous hadith which talk about the breath of the Messiah killing people (See Sahih Muslim 2937a) is really about the plague and Earthquakes which will happen as a result of the rejection/abuse/denial of MGA as the Messiah (See Divine Manifestations [Tajalliyat-e-illahiyyah], page 9, online English Edition)(published in 1922).
Final note, the Bible (Revelations 16) and Quran (See Chapter 22) predict that earthquakes will happen after the Messiah returns, and 99.9 % of the Earth converts to Christianity (for Christians) or Islam for Muslims.
In 2025 (Dec), at the #WCJS25 #WCJS2025 #WestCoastJalsa, Bilal Rana alleged that MGA’s prophecy of the famous Earthquake was completed via the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 (3:22:00 time stamp).
In 2026 (Apr-4), Bro Imtiaz covered the topic of the “doomsday earthquake prophecy” and challenged Ahmadi’s to debate him on the issue.
In 2026 (Apr)(6:09 time stamp), via an episode of “This Week with Huzoor“, Mirza Masroor Ahmad told an Ahmadi that after WW-3, after a total destruction of this planet, Ahmadi’s would reconstruct the world via “this Nizam” (aka Wasiyyat and other chanda’s)(See the clip on TikTok and Twitter).
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