Intro
Factually, Muslims rarely ever did any Mubahila’s in the entire history of Islam. According to Islamic sources, the event of Mubahala was a meeting between the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a Christian delegation from Najran (present-day Saudi Arabia)(see 3:61 of the Quran). Muhammad (Saw) was not setting an example by this, this was an isolated incident that never came to fruition.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad took this incident and fraudulently made it a standard. Mubahila could never be done Muslim to Muslim, however, MGA made that a standard of his prophethood also. In fact, in roughly 1891, MGA began doing Mubahila’s with Muslims and not Christians. The very first Mubahila that MGA had was with Abdul Haq, and its tricky. In 1891, via Izala Auham, MGA was claiming that Abdul Haq was asking for a Mubahila, which is not proven at all.
In 1893 (A‘ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, page 256), MGA argued that if anyone still doesn’t believe in the concept of Buruz, MGA is ready to do a Mubahila (54:26).
By 1893, after MGA lost his debate with Athim, he started claiming that Muslims could solve their religious disputes via Mubahila, and that MGA’s god had specifically told him as such (see the quote in the below, under 1893). This seems to have happened on 27 May, 1893, towards the end of the Athim debate. This seems to be MGA’s first ever Mubahila, and that, vs. a Muslim.
By 1899, the British government ordered MGA to stop doing Mubahila’s in British-India. It seems like the British could stop the fake prophet from Qadian.
Fast forward to 1988, Mirza Tahir Ahmad had been challenging all the Muslims in the world from 1984 to Mubahila, barely anyone noticed or cared. When Zia died, Mirza Tahir Ahmad falsely claimed victory via Mubahila, however, Zia had never accepted any terms of conditions of Mubahila. Bashir Ahmad Misri did and was ignored.
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