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In roughly 1900-1902, MGA started alleging that 5:3 of the Quran was about himself completing the incomplete mission of Muhammad (Saw)(Naozobillah).
MGA also connected 61:9 with his coming and being the 2nd coming of Eisa (as)(naozobillah).
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In Tohfa Golarviyah, MGA and his team of writers alleged that Muhammad (Saw) didn’t finish his mission on Earth (naozobillah) and MGA came to complete it (See Bro Imtiaz explain this at the 56:00 time stamp). Check out my essay on 62:3 and how Ahmadi’s believe that MGA=Muhammad (Saw)(naozobillah). In this same era, MGA was also quoting 5:3 (5:4 in the Qadiani Quran) and alleging that he had perfected the religion of Islam (naozobillah)(See Arba‘in, no. 4, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 17, pages 444-446 and RK-17, Tohfa Golarvia, page 260).
In June of 2025, Bro Imtiaz went on a True Islam UK Stream and discussed this topic (see 3:16:00 time stamp).
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The Church of Scotland came to Sialkot (then Part of British India) in January 1857 when the first Scottish missionary, Reverend Thomas Hunter, came to live with his wife, Jane Scott, and baby son near the Brigade Parade Ground, facing the Trinity Church (whose first stone was laid on 1 March 1852). The church was consecrated by the Bishop of Madras on 30 January 1857. Sialkot at that time was in the diocese of Calcutta in British India. Thomas Hunter, his wife and baby son were murdered in Sialkot during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
In 1889, Government Murray College Sialkot was established as Scotch Mission College by Scottish missionaries belonging to the Church of Scotland. In this era, Syed Mir Hassan was an Arabic teacher at the Scotch Mission and taught Allama Iqbal and Dr. Basharat Ahmad and many more.
In 1972, the government of Pakistan dismissed the Scottish missionaries and nationalized the institution.
In 2005, a new block was established at the college by the Government of Pakistan. There is a private graveyard within the premises of the college which belongs to the Khan family of mori gate Sialkot. The land of the college was donated by this family who kept some piece of land for themselves.
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In 1992, Khalid Hassan (a famous Pakistani journalist and writer) bumped into Dr. Pervez Mir of New York who turned out to have a Sialkot connection. It transpired that he knew Jalil Mir (a grandson of Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti) and had recorded his memories of old Sialkot in a 12-page handwritten note. Technically, these are statements allegedly made by Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti, told to Jalil Mir and then archived by Dr. Pervez Mir (the year us unknown the publication is unknown).
In these 12 pages, he mentioned Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and his life in Sialkot. This seems weird because Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti wasn’t even born in 1864, he was born 10 years later in 1874. Thus, he must have heard from his elders.
Nevertheless, Jalil Mir mentioned the story of MGA and his affiliation at the Adda Pasrurian
with a buggy stand in front of the Lady Anderson Girls High School where he was often to be found counselling those who came to see him. A small mosque close to Allama Iqbal’s house became the first Ahmadiyya mosque in the city. It was named after Hakim Mir Hisamuddin, first cousin of Maulvi Mir Hasan, who became a convert. In one of the side streets lived Mirza Ghulam Ahmed himself. The house next to the mosque was that of Maulvi Mir Hasan. The house preserved after Pakistan as Iqbal’s birthplace is not his, but that of his brother Babu Ata Mohammad, who became an Ahmadi.
In the 1890’s, Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti went to school with Allama Iqbal at the Scotch Mission and Dr. Basharat Ahmad (famous Lahori-Ahmadi). Jalil Mir writes that around the middle of the 19th century Maulvi Ibrahim became a student of Maulvi Ghulam Hasan (whose grandson the late Munir Farooqi was a Lahore high court judge). Once Maulvi Mir Hasan, Iqbal’s teacher, came to Maulvi Ghulam Hasan’s mosque with his student to offer prayers, and Iqbal picked up Maulvi Mir Hasan’s shoes as a mark of respect. Maulvi Mir Hasan held Iqbal’s hand and told him, “If you must pick up anyone’s shoes, let those be Maulvi Ghulam Hasan’s, not mine.” Maulvi Mir Hasan was a great admirer of Sir Syed and would travel to Aligarh during vacations to see him.
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MGA knew Mir Hisamuddin (aka Hakim Hassam-ud-Din) since the 1860’s and MGA’s life in Sialkot. MGA allegedly lived in the house of Mir Hisamuddin (also spelled Hassam ud Din)(MGA called him the Chief of Sialkot). Mirza Ghulam Ahmad said that he was in Sialkot 7-8 years (See ROR of Nov-1904), and some time before the publishing of the Barahin (see Lecture Sialkot, page-60). Thus, MGA was in Sialkot from 1860-1868. After MGA died, this was changed to 1864-1868 (see Seeratul Mahdi, 1923( Vol. 2, p. 178). However, it was changed again soon thereafter. MGA moved from this house eventually and moved to “Kashmiri Mohalla”, this is the same neighborhood wherein Maulvi Abdul Karim Sialkoti was born. In 2018, the Ahmadiyya Jamaat in Pakistan tried to build a museum in one of these houses and failed. Mir Hamid Shah of Sialkot alleges that MGA would listen to commentary of the Quran at the house of Sheikh Nur Muhammad (Allama Iqbal‘s father) in Sialkot. Syed Mir Hassan was also around and was MGA’s friend in Sialkot in this era (1860–1868).
Hakim Hassam-ud-Din and his son (Mir Hamid Shah) were mentioned by MGA in 1891 via Izala Auham-Part-2. Specifically, Mir Hamid Shah was mentioned as a follower of MGA, in fact, he stayed an Ahmadi his whole life and even sided with the son of MGA during the split of 1914.
In 1892 MGA visited Sialkot and stayed at the house of Hakim Hassam-ud-Din. He made a speech in Hakim Hassam-ud-Din’s mosque after the zuhr prayers. The famous poet Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal was a fellow student of mine in those days, and was sitting on the roof
of the porch of the mosque. Seeing me, he said: Look how the devotees are swarming around the light. He was very much favourably disposed towards Hazrat Mirza in those days. So when a poet of Sialkot, who used to have the pen-name jalwa, composed satire to ridicule Hazrat Mirza, Dr. Iqbal wrote a rejoinder in poetical form too, greatly praising Hazrat Mirza (See Mujadid e Azim).
In Lecture Sialkot (1904)(see page-60), MGA spoke of working in Sialkot for 7-8 years in his youth and how he was back in the city many years later as a King. MGA mentioned Mir Hisamuddin as if he was alive, however, he was dead by 1890.
Continue reading “Who is Mir Hisamuddin (aka Hakim Hassam-ud-Din) in Ahmadiyya history?”
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The Charter act of 1813 gave many missionaries the freedom to enter India and engage in various religious practices. Within the headquarters in Calcutta, the missionary was successful in obtaining British India’s Bishop appointment.
As an evangelist, he pioneered in Punjab and left an impressive record. His foremost principle was that the evangelism was best carried out by national workers. By 1854, he baptized almost twenty-three, who were soon utilized in the field of evangelism. Accordingly, Amritsar’s School founded in 1852, Amristar’s College founded in 1862, and Christian Girl’s Boarding School did graduate adequate number of qualified Christian workers for that purpose. He knew well, how to train the Pastor‘s and then to step back while delegating responsibilities to them. Clark founded the first Christian village in Punjab and obtained 1,900 acres (760 hectares) of land from the Government. The village was named “Clarkabad” in his honour.
He became the first chairman of the Punjab Native Church council when the “Lahore Diocese” was established in 1877. He also served as the first secretary of the CMS mission between 1878 and 1898. He served as the first secretary of the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society between 1878 and 1900. Clark died on 16 May 1900 at Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, at the age of seventy-seven. In 1904, he wrote detailed reports about Christianity in the Punjab. missions-of-the-cms-and-cezms-in-the-punjab-and-sindh_clark
It seems that MGA never has any interactions with him, however, MGA did have engagements with the adopted son of Robert Clark (Dr. Henry Marytn Clark) in 1893 and MGA later sent someone (Abdul Hameed) to kill him and beat the case via British officers.
Robert Clark (1825–1900), and his colleague Thomas Henry Fitzpatrick, were the first English Church Mission Society (CMS) missionaries in the Punjab. Clark was also the first missionary to the Afghans and was the first agent of the Church to enter the city of Leh. He was the founder of the CMS mission station in Amritsar, the CMS Afghan mission station in Peshawar, and the Kashmir mission – especially Medical missionary work to open a dispensary in Srinagar and Kashmir (See Dawson and Anderson in the below).
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It seems that in 1886, MGA was busy sending letters all over the world about his “Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya” and how it would contain 300 arguments. MGA seems to have also sent a letter to Henry Steel Olcott and the “Theosophist” magazine and society, which was operating out of Madras, India (edition of Sep-1886). Alexander Russel Webb read this article (see the scans in the below) and began sending letters to MGA from the USA. How much did MGA pay for this advertisement? MGA was lying about having 10,000 rupees.
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (2 August 1832 – 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer, Freemason (member of Huguenot Lodge #448, now #46) and the co-founder and first president of the Theosophical Society. Olcott was the first well-known American of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. His subsequent actions as president of the Theosophical Society helped create a renaissance in the study of Buddhism. Olcott is considered a Buddhist modernist for his efforts in interpreting Buddhism through a Europeanized lens.
This entire scenario was posted in the Ahmadiyya Gazette of 2017 and written by Dr. Tahir Ijaz.
Continue reading “Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and Henry Steel Olcott”
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In 2020, Ahmadiyya sources admitted that Reverend Butler never existed, instead, they allege that his name was Reverend Taylor and that it was a typo, however, Reverend Taylor doesn’t exist either in any Scotch Mission records in Sialkot from 1860-1868. Moreover, there are no records of any Reverend Taylor who was living in Sialkot from 1860-1868. However, there is a man named William Butler, who was an American Methodist missionary and worked mostly out of Bareilly, India, and he never went to Sialkot. In fact, Reverend William Butler never mentioned MGA in any book, newspaper or letter, nor did his biographers.
Ahmadiyya sources allege that in 1860–1868 (while MGA was banished to Sialkot), MGA seems to have met a Christian missionary named Reverend Butler (See page 17 [1998 edition], Via “”Seerat Maseeh e Maud”” by Mirza Basheer ud Din Mahmud Ahmad, 1916 and 1925 edition in Urdu). We know that via Dr. Robert Clark, the Church Missionary Society was in the Central part of the Punjab (via Clarkabad) and even as far east as Peshawar, (the biggest Pashtoon city).
However, we can’t find a Reverend Butler in any Christian missionary group in Sialkot from 1860-1868. Thus, it’s unclear if this person ever even existed. In 1978, in Zafrullah’s Khan‘s famous book (see pages 9-10), he quotes it, however, he doesn’t give any source. In 1989, an Ahmadiyya periodical (the Muslim Herald, see page 14) alleged that MGA had public debates with Dr. Butler, however, it gives no reference (the article was written by a famous historian Maulvi in the Jamaat, Maulvi Dost Muhammad Shah). Qadiani-Ahmadi’s alleged that his name was really Taylor, however, this is also a lie. We have found 2 famous Taylor’s in British India, Major-General Reynell George Taylor CB CSI (25 January 1822 – 28 February 1886) was a British military officer who served in the Bengal Army and William Taylor (1821–1902) was an American Methodist missionary reverend, who in 1884 was elected by the Methodist General Conference as bishop over the Methodist missions in Africa for the Methodist Episcopal Church, he was in India from 1870-1875.
In 1935, Ahmadiyya sources (via “Mujadid-e-Azim“, online abridged English edition), some of the conversations between MGA and Butler are reproduced, it is even announced how Butler would visit MGA at his apartment.
In 1947, via “Life of Ahmad” by Dard, Ahmadiyya sources allege (see pages 48-49) that he used to live near the village of Gohadpur. Dard goes further and explains how MGA was very close to Reverend Butler (he gives no references).
Pfander was in the picture too.
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“Hayat-e-Tayyaba” (also spelled as “Hayat-e-Tayiba”) in an autobiography about the life of MGA
by Sheikh Abdul Qadir, it was recently re-published in a new edition in 2017 from Qadian, the publishing date of the 1st edition is unknown. Reading from the on the current edition online – says “due to the advancement of Silsila in Qadian, in 1938 Mirza Bashir Ahmad MA, instructed a few young writers (Abdul Qadir Soudagar Mal the writer of this book) to write some books. So at the time 2 topics – Seerat Moh SAW and Hayyat e tayyaba were allocated to the writer. At the time khaksar was in Karachi for Tabligh duties. To fulfil the order of Mirza Bashir Ahmad, I prepared the manuscripts for both books. Further it says that he started it in May 1959 – so the around that time first edition would be published.
We have posted quotes in the below which refer to MGA’s life in Sialkot (1864-1868) and via Mir Hassan.
This book mentions Dr. Sutherland and the last sentence here about MGA’s body being allowed in the second class section of the train at Lahore (second class ke ek rays row dabba(second class ki gaari mein jo rez row karai gayi thi- rakhwa diya gaya). It is rumored that MGA’s body was taken in a trash compartment, from Lahore to Batala. This book also shows that Dr. Sutherland didn’t come to see MGA’s dead body, or before. It says that Sheikh Rehmatullah went to Dr. Sutherland and made him write the certificate, ironically, it then argues that Dr. Sutherland was treating MGA in his final stage. This book also says that MGA died at age 76, which is totally wrong.
What’s odd about this book is that it was first published from Qadian in 2001. And thus, insignificant. It was written by Shaikh Abdul Qadir. He seems to be a companion of MGA. In 2022, the Qadiani-Ahmadi’s published an english translation of an urdu book wherein Hayyat-e-Tayyaba is heavily quoted.