Intro
MGA’s confrontation with Pir Mehr Ali Shah (14 April 1859 – May 1937) started in roughly 1899. Pir Mehr Ali Shah had a book (“Shams ul Hidaya”, 1899) vs. MGA published in May of 1899. It was printed at the Mustafa’i Press, Lahore in Ramadan 1317 A.H.
Maulawi Nur-ud-Din read a few pages of this book on February 17th, 1900, and wrote a letter to Pir Mihr Ali Shah the next day. It was written in this book that if anyone wanted to say anything about this book he must refer to authentic commentaries such as Ibni Jarir and Ibni Kathir and also to the true Hadith or he must base his arguments upon the Holy Quran, which should be acceptable to the great and learned people who are masters of language and rhetorics (page 8). Though the book is written in Urdu, yet the writer has occasionally employed Arabic also to show his learning. So, Maulawi Nur-ud-Din asked the Pir eleven questions in his letter (see Dard). But this book, “Shams ul Hidaya” wasn’t totally written by Pir Mehr Ali Shah, in fact, one of the disciples of the Pir wrote much of, and this was admitted to by the Pir himself. Maulavi Muhammad Ghazi had actually written the book, as Noorudin asked for references, the Pir told Noorudin that he should ask Maulavi Muhammad Ghazi.
Nevertheless, in roughly 1900-1902 (while beefing with Pir Mehr Ali Shah), MGA began claiming that only he knew the authenticity of any given hadith. MGA also claimed that he believed in his own wahi that same way that he believes in the Torah, the Gospel and the Holy Quran (See “Arba’in, online English edition, page 159). Thus, MGA was declaring repeatedly that his God had sent him as the Promised Messiah and has informed him which particular hadith is authentic and which hadith is not, and He has bestowed on him the correct understanding of the Holy Quran, then why should he engage with these people? Check out Bro Imtiaz’s video on this too.
In 1900-1901, Maulvi Muhammad Ahsan Amrohi published a book entitled, “Shams-i-Bazigha” which was vs. Pir Mehr Ali Shah. The name means ‘Rising Sun’. It was directed at Mehr Ali Shah, and according to the latter, was full of errors. This book seems to be totally missing from Ahmadiyya websites.
MGA alleged that prayers were combined in Qadian for 2 months, Dec-15-1900 to 2-15-1901, just for MGA, just to be easy for MGA, and MGA alleged that this is in the hadith, i.e., that prayers would be combined for the Messiah, Allah makes it easier for him (See Al-Hakam, vol. 5, no. 6, dated 17 February 1901, pp. 13-14 and Malfuzat-3, online English edition, page 107).
On February 23, 1901, “I’jazul-Masih” is published. This book deals with MGA’s beef with Pir Mehr Ali Shah as well as a full commentary of Surah Fatiha, the first chapter of the Quran. In this book, MGA criticizes Egypt, MGA blames Moses-as why he did not call for the destruction of Egypt and its removal from existence, as the previous generations perished and were removed from existence, all of this just because a sheikh criticized his book. In this book, MGA clearly says that the Quranic verses (61:6) and all biblical verses in terms of the “Ahmad” are about himself, the latter-day Messenger/Messiah (See the scans in the below). In March-1901,
Pir Mehr Ali Shah responds with Saif-e-Chishtiya’i, in this book, he makes fun of some of the Arabic phrases used in I‘jazul-Masih and alleged that some of the material is plagiarized and
further alleged that the Revelations of the Promised Messiah are no more than confused dreams. The Pir also made an allegation that MGA had been plagiarizing from Maqamat-e-Hariri. Saif-e-Chishtiyai played a major role in MGA’s famous court case of 1903-1904 vs. Maulvi Karam Din.
On Sep-15-1902, Tohfa-e-Golarhviyyah is published by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and his team.
Maulvi Sanaullah mentioned Pir Mehr Ali Shah in his famous book of 1923, “Tahrik-e-Mirza“.
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