Intro
In 1865, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s father (Mirza Ghulam Murtaza) told the British government that the Mirza family at Qadian descended from the Mughal race (Mughal means Mongol)(See Punjab Chiefs, 1865 edition). In fact, he linked his family with Hadi Beg and the final year of Babar’s reign as the Mughal Khalifa. It was alleged that Hadi Beg was a Mongol (Mughal). We think that this is a lie and MGA was never part of any lineage of kings.
Nevertheless, after his dad (Mirza Ghulam Murtaza) died and with the publishing of the Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya 1-4 (1879-1884), MGA was prefacing to the world that he was Persian and he would use this for his claim of being the Mahdi in the future. In BA-4, MGA had a revelation wherein his God told him that he was Persian (See page 372, online english edition). In 1891, after MGA made his wildest claims, he quoted 62:3 of the quran and the relevant hadith and claimed himself to be Persian. However, in 1897-1898, via Kitab ul Barriya, MGA all of a sudden called himself as Chinese (See page 81, Lahori-Ahmadi translation). MGA and his team quoted Shaikh Ibn al-Arabi and his book, “Fusu s-ul-Hukam” (see page 15). Thus, MGA and his team saw something in “Fusu s-ul-Hukam” by Shaikh Ibn al-Arabi and twisted it. MGA never gave a proper reference, nevertheless, we have found the quote on page 15 and can confirm that this has nothing to do with the Messiah or Mahdi, Shaikh Ibn al-Arabi (a deviant) was talking about the Final hour and how there would be lawlessness, and a man, who is born in China would try to correct it. In 1901, as MGA finally claimed prophethood, MGA claimed to be Persian again and didn’t mention anything about being Chinese, MGA also called himself an arab on his mothers side (Fatimite).
In 1903, MGA made the same lie about being Chinese in Tadhkiratush Shahadatayn (see ref in the below). Again in 1907, via Haqiqatul Wahy (See pages 254), MGA claimed that he had been given divine revelations which indicated that he was of Chinese descent. And finally in 1908, via Chashma-e-Marifat, MGA explained that some of his ancestors might have lived in Chinese lands, also MGA confesses to a contradiction between his earlier and later writings on this topic. After MGA died, BA-5 was published and MGA claimed to only be Mughal (Mongol) per the report by Ibn Arabi (but the report said born in China). MGA said that his God has declared him to be Persian on his paternal side and Arab (from the progeny of Fatima) on his maternal side and thus, MGA contradicted all of his writings (see pages 487-488).
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