Intro
Lalah Sharampat Ra’i (aka Lalah Sharampat Khatri [See Haqiqatul Wahy], also called Sharampat, the Aryah aka Lala Shrampat)(born 1911 Bikrami or 1855 A. D. and died December, 28th: 1932 A.D., was the Secretary of the Samaj at Qadian, See Dard) was a Hindu resident of Qadian in the 1870’s (until at least 1907). He had a brother named Lala Bisambar Das.
MGA mentioned him indirectly as a witness of his signs in 1880-1882 via his book Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya Vol. 3 (see online english edition, pages 218, 220 and 224). The english editors added the name Lalah Sharampat in the new english translation in 2014, it was never in the original Urdu. However, Lalah Sharampat was illiterate and barely understood what MGA was saying, thus, MGA used them in a deceptive and thought that no one would try to audit these witnesses. As soon as the prophecy was announced by him, Sharampat whom he had quoted as a witness, declared: “Ghulam Ahmad is a liar and an anti -Christ. I never heard this prophecy from him (See Anthology of Pandit Lakhram Takzib·i· Baraheen-i Ahmadiyya, via “Qadiyaniat: an analytical survey” by Ehsan Elahi Zaheer (1984) 21st edition free download – ahmadiyyafactcheckblog). Interestingly, in 1923, in Seeratul Mahdi, an anonymous Hindu is quoted over and over again. MGA also claims to have hold Sharampat before hand about Duleep Singh. Lala Malawamal was a close friend of Lala Sharampat, they were both from Qadian, these are the 2 Hindu’s that MGA mentions in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya 1-4, the 3rd is Bishandas Brahman (See Haqiqatul Wahy). MGA also claims that Lalah Sharampat and Lala Malawamal were the witnesses in this famous revelation, that became a ring that All Ahmadi’s wear, “Is Allah not sufficient for his servant”. MGA also claims that he prophecied the death of his father (Mirza Ghulam Murtaza) and these 2 were the witnesses. (See “Qadian Kei Aryah Aur Hamm”, in english it would be “The Aryas of Qadian”). MGA also alleges that he prophecied the assassination of Dayanand, and Lalah Sharampat was the witness.
However, a few years later (1885), Lekh Ram came to Qadian and spoke to Lalah Sharampat Ra’i and his friends and they confirmed that they were never witnesses to any signs of MGA, you can read all of this in “Kulliyat Arya Musafir” by Lekh ram (1885), check out the scans in the below.
Nevertheless, (via Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya Vol. 3 see online english edition, pages 218, 220 and 224) MGA claims that 12 years earlier (roughly 1870), Lalah Sharampat’s near family member (Bishambar Das, Dard claims that this is the brother of Sharampat) went to jail with Khush Hal Chand. However, it should be noted that Bishambar Das and Khush Hal Chand were in jail, and Lalah Sharampat was not. Lalah Sharampat seems to have been fighting the case on appeal. At that point, in roughly 1870, Lalah Sharampat asked MGA to show a sign in terms of the result of this case, MGA then alleges to have gotten a dream wherein the result of the case was disclosed to him. At that point, they left each other, MGA then alleges that at night (of the same day?) he got a dream wherein it was allegedly revealed to him that Bishambar Das’ sentence would be reduced by 1/2 but he would not be acquitted; and that his companion (Khush Hal Chand) would serve out the whole of his sentence and he would also not be acquitted. MGA then alleges that he announced this dream to a large number of people and informed Lalah Sharampat Ra’i of it the same day. Ironically, MGA claims to have been in Qadian when the court announced the verdict, and claimed to be in some mosque, however, in 1870, there were no mosques in Qadian. In the same book (Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya Vol. 3 (see online english edition, pages 218, 220 and 224), MGA relates another dream wherein Lalah Sharampat is the witness, MGA alleges that he saw in a dream that someone had sent him fifty rupees towards the cost of publishing the “Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya”. An Aryah (Lalah Sharampat) also saw a dream that someone had sent MGA a thousand rupees for the same purpose. He related his dream to MGA and MGA immediately told him of my dream and said to him: ‘Nineteentwentieths of your dream is false; this is a consequence of your being a Hindu and outside the pale of Islam.
In 1883-1884, MGA mentioned Sharampat by name in Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya Vol. 4 (see page 430) and related the same story. MGA alleged that he got some type of revelations in June of 1883 about the impending death of Dayanand, however, this was never published anywhere. MGA claims to have told the Arya’s of Qadian (which indirectly includes Sharampat), however, this is a lie, this was another “after-the-fact” prophecies that MGA always did.
By 1887, MGA was also calling Sharampat a witness in his “after-the-fact” death prophecy vs. Dayanand (see Shahna-e-Haqq, p. 43, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 2, p. 382, via the 2019, online english edition of Tadhkirah, see page 135).
MGA mentioned him in 1903, via his book, “The Sanatan Faith”. MGA alleges that he invited Kishan Singh, Lala Sharampat, Lala Malawamal of Qadian, and Pundit Saum Raj, Secretary of the Aryah Society of Qadian to his house and Qadian and spoke to them about Niyog (see page 10). MGA even alleged that many members of the Arya Samaj had used foul language against him.
By 1906-1907, the beef was on again in Qadian between the Arya Samaj of Qadian and MGA. While MGA and his team were writing “Haqiqatul Wahy”, they mentioned Sharampat 27 and repeated all of the old info and added a new prophecy, i.e., that MGA told Sharampat that Mirza Ghulam Qadir (MGA’s brother) would die in 1883. In the same book “Haqiqatul Wahy”, MGA admitted that Sharampat and Malawamal had published advertisements against MGA and called MGA a liar and a fake. After MGA died, BA-5 was published and MGA alleged that Sharampat was his close friend in the 1870’s and even went with MGA to get the “Barahin” published.
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