Intro
Via the Al-Hakam, vol. 3, no. 1, dated 10 January 1899, pp. 6-9 (See Malfuzat-2, online English edition, pages 1-8), Maulvi Qutb-ud-Din is mentioned as a resident of Baddomalli and is also mentioned in the famous list of the first 313 companions of MGA in 1896 (See also Dard, page 844).
Famous Ahmadi’s from #Baddomalhi, Pakistan are Saleem Meer (Mind Roaster), another super famous Ahmadi from Baddomalhi is Dr. Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz, he has 2 super famous sons in the USA, Mansoor (worked for the CIA) and Mujeeb Ijaz (CEO of a billion dollar company in the USA). Naseer Ahmad Malhi is a famous Pakistani politician (with Sir Syed leanings), he is also from Baddomalhi. The Lahori-Ahmadi Maulana Muhammad Abdullah (aka Fard Muhammad?) was working there in 1930 before his assignment to Fiji.
In Baddomalhi the VAST majority of the people who left the Ahmadiyya movement were actually from the Lahore Jama’at not the ‘Qadian’ jama’at (this is written by Saad on the old Lahori-Ahmadi blog). There were dozens villages in Sialkot district where the majority of the population became predominantly Lahori Ahmadis after 1974.
In the 1930’s, the Lahori-Ahmadi’s built a High School, with a boarding house attached and other commodious buildings in Baddomalli (Sialkot district)(See Maulvi Muhammad Ali, “Contributions to Islamic Constructive Work and Thought”, 8-9, via Fanusie).
But by the 1980s there is a little to no presence of Lahori Ahmadis as they have all either become Sunnis (About 70-80%) or accepted Khilafat (10-20%). A perfect example of this is my famillies ancestral town BaddoMalhi once a Lahori domineering Lahori center with population of arourd 40,000. In BaddoMalhi Lahoris made up around 70%, ‘Qadianis’ 15%, and Sunnis also At 15%. In the late 1980s, the population had become 75% Sunni, 20% ‘Qadiani’ and 5 percent Lahoris. Recently, according to my grandfather (a former Lahori) who regularly visit BaddoMalhi said that the Ahmadis were around 10% of the population mainly due to very heavy immigration to Lahore and The West (you can find people from BaddoMalhi in virtually any Jama’at Canada, Germany, USA, UK.). These are rough estimates due to my probing of my Father, Grandfather and family friends. If you ever visit BaddoMalhi the vast majority of the Mosques are Lahori Ahmadi mosques but now run by Sunnis including the one my great-great grandfather built. Infact, of the two Muslim high schools the Lahore Ahmadiyya movement established one wad in Lahore the other was in BaddoMalhi. Either way these figures are rough but the fact of the matter is that the Lahori Ahmadis were in the majority in BaddoMalhi at their zenith.
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