Intro
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s goal was to create communal strife, he wanted Muslims to fight each other and to fight Hindu’s, Sikh’s, Buddhists and everyone. This was part of the British strategy of divide and conquer (see the work of Ian Talbot). Check out Bro Imtiaz and Adnan covering this topic herein. MGA also attacked Christian missionaries, like Padre Imad ud Din too.
By 1879, Muslims and Hindu’s hadn’t really had any debates on religion. Dayananda Saraswati (12 February 1824 – 30 October 1883) was a founder of the Arya Samaj of the Punjab. Dayanand seemed to be anti-British, as well as anti-every religion other than Hinduism in the Indian Subcontinent. He wrote his famous Satyarth Prakash in 1875, wherein he criticized all religions in India. In May of 1879, MGA announced that he was writing “Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya” vs. Pundit Dayananda and the Arya Samaj sect, of which Dayananda was the founder. In 1875, Pundit Dayananda had published “Satyarth Prakash” (The Light of Truth), this seems to be MGA’s response. Nevertheless, MGA began attacking the Arya Samaj and their leader Dayananda in his Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya, Part 1 and 2 (search the book for Hindus). The Barahin 1-4 was nothing more than a vicious attack on the God of the Hindu‘s.
He was assassinated in 1883, MGA claims to have prophesied his death, however, that was in 1887, via Shahna-e-Haqq, p. 43, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 2, p. 382, via the 2019, online English edition of Tadhkirah, see page 135.
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Announcements about Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya being directed at Hindu’s
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Punjab and the Raj, 1849–1947″, p. 72–73 Ian Talbot
“Relations grew particularly bad between the Aryas and the Muslims. Serious violence broke out in 1897 when a leading Arya Samajist called Pandit Lekh Ram was assassinated. Lekh Ram’s greatest influence was in the north-west of Punjab. He had in fact joined the Peshawar Arya Samaj in 1880 and rose to prominence first as a missionary and then as editor of the Arya Gazette. At first he had limited his attacks to the Ahmadi movement of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, but he increasingly attacked orthodox Muslims as well. His pamphlet, Risala-i-Jihad ya’ri Din-i-Muhammad ki Bunyad (A Treatise on waging holy war, or the foundation of the Muhammadan Religion) caused a considerable outcry, when it was published in 1892. Until his murder by a Muslim five years later, Lekh Ram continued to stir up animosity by his vituperative writings.”
Some additional quotes
“Mirza Saheb had announced that any non-Muslim who would write a reply to Braheen Ahmadiyya would be rewarded with Rs. 10,000. Pandit Lekhram wrote a reply by the name of Takzeeb Braheen. However this rebuttal was a shameless collection of slanders and abuse and I believe that since the humans have been born, no anti-God had abused Prophets and other people close to God in such a manner that Pandit Lekhram had penned in his book…. If one looks with fairness then it will be obvious that it was Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Saheb who provoked the said Pandit against Islam and Prophets of Islam and forcing him into writing such slander.” (Raees-e-Qadian p.1332-133 by Rafiq Dilawari)
“If writing a rebuttal of Braheen is ill-mannerism, then you are the first criminal, because according to Quran you had committed Kufr, you provoked us, because of which we wrote a reply. Had you not provoked us, then Permeshwar knows, that we had never thought of writings against religion of Islam. Thus if God forbid, divine punishment will descend then first its lightening will fall on your sitting room in Qadian. Then if self defense is a crime, then I too should be blamed.” (Weekly Satdharam Parcharak, Jallundher, dated 16th July 1897, mentioned in Raees-e-Qadian by Rafiq Dilawari p.133)
“I saw your letter published by Murtazai Press Lahore. In this letter you have been instructed by God to write that anyone belonging to other religion, despite staying with you for one year, does not observe any heavenly sign and does not become Muslim after satisfying himself, then you will pay Rs. 200 per month as penalty or damages. Therefore to discover the heavenly sign I am prepared to some to you on the condition that at the rate of Rs 200 per month deposit Rs 2400 in Government bank for safe keeping, and give an undertaking that if am not satisfied and do not embrace Islam after one year of your guidance and heavenly sign and miracles, then that Rs. 2400 would be handed over to me, and for a period of one year that amount will remain deposited in the government bank, you will not be entitled to take that money back. I accept to be your student for one year.” (Letter to Mirza Ghulam dated 3rd April 1885, mentioned in Raees-e-Qadian by Rafiq Dilawari p.163)
http://www.anti-ahmadiyya.org/en/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=160
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Links and Related Essay’s
http://www.anti-ahmadiyya.org/en/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=160
MGA pushed Lekh Ram to criticize Islam – ahmadiyyafactcheckblog
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and Dayananda, the full history – ahmadiyyafactcheckblog
Chapter Fourteen – Satyarth Prakash (English)
The Arya Samaj of Qadian – ahmadiyyafactcheckblog
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