Intro
The Feb-1940 edition of the ROR mentions the 1939 Jalsa at Qadian. It mentions how A.Q.Niaz wrote a book about the 2nd Khalifa entitled, “Fazl-i-Omar”. The ROR of March-1940 has a review of a Lahori-Ahmadi essay in “The Light” of Jan-16, 1940. The Lahori-Ahmadi’s seem to have commented on the Silver Jubilee (the 25-year anniversary of the 2nd Khalifa’s Khilafat). The 2nd Khalifa gave the inaugural speech on Dec-26, 1939, he mentioned the Lahori-Ahmadi’s and how that conflict happened 25 years ago, he specifically mentioned Dr. Mirza Yacub Baig. The 2nd Khalifa alleged that Qadian would be controlled by Christians, ironically, 8 years after this speech, the Sikhs had taken full control of Qadian and control it til this day (2023). The 2nd Khalifa even made prophecies that Ahmadi’s of Rabwah would return to Qadian (including himself). The 2nd Khalifa also alleged that alleged that word had come from Sierra Leone that 2 Chiefs and their tribe of 500 had accepted Ahmadiyya (a lie)(See also Alfazl, 3 January 1940).
Mentioning the Golden Jubilee Jalsa of 1939, the same newspaper wrote under the heading “Golden Jubilee of Ahmadiya Movement: Qadian Celebrations”:
“The golden jubilee of the Ahmadiya movement and the silver jubilee of its head, Khalifa Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad[ra], will be celebrated at Qadian during the next few days.
“A spacious pandal has been constructed and volunteers are working to ensure comfort for thousands of Ahmadiyas who are coming from all parts of India and foreign countries. Simultaneously a women’s conference will be held.
“At 10-45 this morning amidst the shouts of community slogans the head of the Ahmadiyas entered the pandal and declared the conference open. He referred to the progress made by the community during the past 25 years and particularly mentioned the work of the missionaries in Foreign countries. He said that through the combined and collective efforts of the Ahmadiyas Islam would advance to its destined and promised goal of bringing about a new and better social order on the ashes of the present corrupt and decadent system.
“Among those present today were Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan, Nawab Mohammad Din, and Nawab Akbar Yar Jung Bahadur.—A.P.” (The Civil and Military Gazette, 28 December 1939, p. 3)
The Dundee Evening Telegraph wrote under the heading “Indian Leader Urges Support for Britain”:
“Unqualified and unstinted support of Britain in the prosecution of the war was urged today by Mr Mirza Bashir[-ud-Din Mahmud] Ahmed, head of the Ahmadiya community.
“He was speaking at a conference at Quadian, at which the golden jubilee of the Ahmadiya movement was being celebrated.
“Mr Mirza Bashir Ahmed” criticised “‘the foolish notion that England’s difficulty was India’s opportunity.’” (Dundee Evening Telegraph, 29 December 1939, p. 1)
The same news was published by Coventry Evening Telegraph, Derby Daily Telegraph, Nottingham Journal, Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, Newcastle Evening Chronicle, Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, Grimsby Daily Telegraph, Belfast Telegraph, Leicester Daily Mercury, Bristol Evening Post, Leicester Evening Mail, Shields Daily News, Halifax Evening Courier, Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph, Liverpool Evening Express, Belfast News-Letter, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, and Torbay Express and South Devon Echo.
The Civil and Military Gazette reported under the heading “Dictatorship and Khilafat: Sir M. Zafrullah Khan Explains Difference”:
“‘Difference between dictatorship and Islamic Khilafat’ was the subject of an interesting lecture delivered by Chowdhuri Sir M. Zafrullah Khan at the open session of the Ahmadiyya annual gathering at Qadian on Wednesday.
“Addressing the gathering, he said that it should be borne in mind that being a synthesis of all constitutions, incorporating in itself all that was good in them, Islamic Khilafat neither resembled any of them nor was adequately describable by constitutional terms commonly understood. The essential and fundamental difference between dictatorship and Khilafat was that whereas a dictator was law unto himself, an Islamic Khalifa was bound by Islamic law and could not change or override it. All powers and resources of an Islamic Khalifa were devoted to the achievement of ideals, fixed by Islamic Shariyyat but a dictator’s ideals were of his own conception.
“On Tuesday night, Maulvi Ata-ur-Rahman, Director of Public Instructions, Assam, delivered a lecture on the spirit of Ahmadiyat. Sir Mohd. Zafrullah Khan was in the Chair. He said that the Ahmadiyya movement was neither a system of religion nor a code of ethics, but the new orientation of life for Muslims in the present time. He added that the revivalism symbolised by the Ahmadiyya movement was not man-made but divinely inspired.—A.P.” (The Civil and Military Gazette, 29 December 1939, p. 4)
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Links and Related Essay’s
The “Return to Qadian” prophecy by Mirza Basheer-uddin Mahmud Ahmad (1947)
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