Intro
Maulvi Abdullah Ghaznavi died on 15 February 1881 (See Isha‘atus-Sunnah, volume 4, number 1)(via Tadhkirah). Thus, it is possible that he never read Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya (published in 1880 [v1+v2], 1882 [v-3] and 1884 [v-4]). In roughly 1882, his son (Maulavi Abdul Waheed) married a daughter of Maulvi Nur-ud-Din (1st Qadiani Khalifa)(her name was Imamah) in roughly 1882. She died in 1897 in Qadian (See page 40, “Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous” by Syed Hasanat Ahmad). MGA alleges to have met him in the 1870’s aka before his claims (“Life of Ahmad” by Dard).
In 1890, MGA published a dream about Maulvi Abdullah Ghaznavi in Izala Auham (Part-1).
In 1891, a top disciple of Maulvi Abdullah Ghaznavi, named Abdul Haqq wanted a Mubahila vs. MGA, which happened in 1893 in Amritsar.
In 1895, he posted a vision of the Late Abdullah Ghaznavi Regarding Sheikh Muhammad Husain Batalawi in his book, “Nurul-Qur’an”, Numbers I & II (see page 162). This was via Honourable Qazi Zia-ud-Din of Qazi Kot, District Gujranwala.
In 1900, MGA mentioned him roughly 20 times in Arba’in. MGA also alleged that Maulvi Abdullah Ghaznavi had praised MGA in roughly 1879 and even said that a light descended at Qadian (See Arba’in).
In 1900-1902, MGA boasted, “if Maulavi ‘Abdullah had lived longer he would have become my follower” (See Tohfa Ghaznaviyya).
In 1906-1907, MGA mentioned him in Haqiqatul Wahi in terms of sign #92 and a few other instances. MGA alleges to have seen him in a dream. MGA also alleges to have met him at Khairdi and then at Amritsar.
After MGA died, in 1909 via Nuzul ul Maseeh, MGA alleged that he knew that Maulvi Abdullah Ghaznavi was about to die, back in 1881. MGA also alleged that Maulvi Abdullah Ghaznavi attested to MGA’s claim via a dream.
In 1912, after MGA died, and via [Introduction to the Mirqatul-Yaqin fi Hayat-e-Nur-ud-Din, under subject, Madh’hab wa ‘Aqa’id, p. 39]:
Maulvi Nur ud Din, Khalifatul Masih I relates:
MGA saw him Maulavi ‘Abdullah Ghaznavi in his dream in the form of the Holy Prophet, on
whom be the peace and blessings of Allah. This was on account of his perfect conformity to the sunnah.
At some point, MGA opined that “if” Maulvi Abdullah Ghaznavi had lived and not died in 1881, he would have become his own disciple (an Ahmadi in bayat to MGA). MGA even argued that he the right to correct Maulawi Abdullah Ghaznavi if necessary, since MGA considered himself as the Hakam (judge). This offended Ilahi Bakhsh (See Dard).
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His son
Maulavi Abdul Waheed. He married a daughter of Nur ud Din (Imamah) in roughly 1882. She died in 1897 in Qadian (See page 40, “Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous” by Syed Hasanat Ahmad.
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1881
Feb
Isha‘atus-Sunnah, volume 4, number 1
Maulavi ‘Abdullah Ghaznavi passed away on Tuesday, Rabi‘ul Awwal 15, February 15, 1881. See Isha‘atus-Sunnah, volume 4, number 1.
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1890
Izala-e-Auham, pp. 83–92 footnote, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 3, pp. 143–147 footnote
“”An eminent personage…whose name was Maulavi ‘Abdullah Ghaznavi… I saw this eminent and righteous person in my dream after his death50 that he was standing fully armed in a military way with great dignity and majesty51. I mentioned some of my revelations to him and asked him to interpret one of my dreams. I told him that I had seen in a dream that I was holding a sword, the hilt of which was in my hand and its point reached up to the sky. When I turned it to the
right thousands of my opponents were killed and when I turned it to the left thousands of my enemies were killed.
Hadrat ‘Abdullah, may Allah be pleased with him, was very pleased to hear this dream of mine. With his face beaming with cheerfulness, happiness, and clear conviction, he said: ‘The interpretation of your dream is that God will employ you for high purposes. Wielding the sword on the right and killing opponents means that the task will be accomplished through spiritual light and the manifestations of spiritual Signs; while wielding it to the left and slaughtering thousands of enemies means that Allah will employ you to confound them with reason and argument and thus in both ways Allah will establish the truth.’ He added: ‘When I was in the world I was hoping that God will surely raise such am person.’ Then he took me to a large building in which a number of righteous and godly people were sitting, all of them armed in military fashion and sitting upright as if waiting for some command immediately expected for the performance of some military task….
This blessed dream, which is really a type of vision, points to the same Signs of the Messiah that I have mentioned above. That the slaughter of swine and killing of infidels by the Messiah has the same import: he will convey the divine arguments convincingly and will frustrate them through the sword of argument. [Allah knows best.]””
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1891
Izala-e-Auham, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 3, pp. 457-458, See Also, Essence of Islam, vol-3, pages 378-379
Submitting the Matter to the Judge of Judges
“””O Ye revered clerics though the falsity of your notion that that you are the true believers and I am a disbeliever, that you are truthful and I am a liar, that you follow Islam and I go against it, that you are the accepted ones of God and I am rejected by Him, that you are the heirs of Paradise and I am condemned to hell, has been established by the Holy Qur’an in the estimation of those who are given to reflection, and the readers of this book can well understand who is right and who is wrong, yet there is another way whereby distinction can be made between those who are true and those who are false, and between the accepted ones of God and the rejected ones. It has always been the way of God that if an accepted one and a rejected one both beseech God Almighty for heavenly help, He certainly helps the accepted one and makes His acceptance
of him manifest in a manner that is beyond human power. Since you claim to be in the right, and some of you like Maulavi Mohy-ud-Din and ‘Abd-ur-Rahman Sahib of Lakhoke and Miań ‘Abd-ul-Haq Sahib of Ghazni have denounced me as a disbeliever and as one condemned to hell, it is incumbent upon you to find out through this heavenly method who is designated as the accepted one in heaven and who is the rejected one. I agree that you should supplicate to the Judge of judges for a period of ten weeks that if you are in the right you should be given a sign of your truth or you should be authorized to make a great prophecy or granted a sign as can proceed only from the righteous. On my side I shall also do the same. God the Beneficent and the Powerful has assured me that, if you accept this challenge, victory will be mine….
Whatever belonged to us, belong now to the Beloved; Today, we belong to the Beloved, and He belongs to us. Thanks be to Allah, we found that Priceless Ruby; It matters not if the nation’s hearts have turned to stone.
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1891
Izala Auham, p. 637
“Let it be clear to the readers that Mr. Abdul Haqq had asked for a mubahila. But I cannot understand how a mubahila could be permissible regarding those matters of difference which do not make either party into a kafir or an unjust one. It is clear from the Holy Quran that in a mubahila each party must believe that the party opposite is a liar, i.e., is deliberately deviating
from the truth, and is not merely mistaken, so that each side is able to say: ‘May the curse of Allah be upon the liars!’ Now if Mr. Abdul Haqq considers me to be a liar due to his wrong
judgment, I do not call him a liar but believe him to be in error, and it is not allowable to curse a Muslim who is merely in error.”
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1893
[Register of Miscellaneous Memoranda of the Promised Messiahas, p. 217]
Via Tadhkirah
MGA alleges to have seen a dream wherein Maulvi Abdullah Ghaznavi and MGA’s elder brother, (Mirza Ghulam Qadir) were sitting in a house which resembled a mosque.
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1895
https://files.alislam.cloud/pdf/Light-of-Holy-Quran.pdf
In 1895, he posted a vision of the Late Abdullah Ghaznavi Regarding Sheikh Muhammad Husain Batalawi in his book, “Nurul-Qur’an”, Numbers I & II (see page 162). This was via Honourable Qazi Zia-ud-Din of Qazi Kot, District Gujranwala.
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1898
Malfuzat-1
“””Maulvi Abdullah Ghaznavi was given a revelation in relation to Muhammad Husain that he possessed a certain weakness. Muhammad Husain asked him to disclose it, but he responded by saying that the forbearing nature of Allah Almighty prevented him from doing so. Then, Maulvi Abdullah Ghaznavi also saw a dream in which Muhammad Husain’s clothes were torn; this dream has now come true.”””
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1900
Forty Announcements to Convey the Message Conclusively to the Opponents
MGA mentioned him roughly 20 times in Arba’in (1900).
MGA alleges (see pages 170-171): that “Maulawi Abdullah Ghaznavi saw in a dream that a light fell upon Qadian (that is, on this humble one) from the heavens. He also said that his own progeny would remain deprived of that light. This is the statement of Hafiz Muhammad Yusuf that I have stated in his own words without any addition or subtraction of words. ولَعْنَةُ الّٰلّٰہِ عَلَی الْكٰذِبِيْنَ [And the curse of Allah be upon the liars]. An additional argument in support of this is that Abdullah Ghaznavi made this very statement on another occasion differently in the presence of Hafiz Muhammad Yusuf ’s real brother, Munshi Muhammad Yaqub. In this statement, he mentioned my name and then said that, in his opinion, the Mujaddid [Reformer] who was to come for the reformation of the world is Mirza Ghulam Ahmad sas. In the interpretation of a dream, he said that perhaps1 ٭ the light seen descending on Qadian from the heavens is Mirza Ghulam Ahmad””.
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1902
Tohfa Ghaznaviyya
Tuhfa-e-Ghaznaviyyah, quotes and background info – ahmadiyyafactcheckblog
MGA boasted, “if Maulavi ‘Abdullah had lived longer he would have become my follower” (See Tohfa Ghaznaviyya).
MGA alleged that two of the closest companions of Maulavi ‘Abdullah Ghaznavi and respected by the Ghaznavi family, Maulavi Muhammad Ya‘qub and Hafiz Muhammad Yusuf declared before a large gathering of people that Maulavi ‘Abdullah Gahznavi had a vision, in which he had seen the light of God descending upon Qadian, of which his children were deprived.
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1905
Al-Badr, vol. 4, no. 6, p. 3,4, dated 18 February 1905; al-Hakam, vol. 9, no. 7, p. 2,3, dated 24 February 1905
Via Malfuzat-7, online English edition
Feb-11-1905
“””And one Maulawi ‘Abdullah Ghaznavi, whom I know to be virtuous and whose children live
in Amritsar, also claims to receive ilham. He says that I receive ilham that this Movement is false and that Mirza Sahib is a liar and a dajjal.””””
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1905, Aug-3
Badr, vol. 1, no. 18, p. 2, dated 3 August 1905,
The Door to Revelation is Open
The Promised Messiah as said:
As our scholars believe that the door of ilham [Divine revelation and inspiration] has now been closed, a cognisant seeker [of truth] would die a living death if this were true. God is not
miserly. He Himself has taught the prayer which manifests that the door to these favours is open:
صِرَاطَصِرَاطَ الَّذِيْنَالَّذِيْنَ اَنْعَمْتَاَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْعَلَيْهِمْ1
Sadly, Maulawi ‘Abdullah Ghaznavi also believed that he did not know whether the revelation he received was satanic or Divine. I wonder what happens to these people in light of this belief when they get such a revelation. If they act on it, they may be following Satan’s command, but if they do not, there is the possibility that they displease God. The same is the case with the revelations of Ilahi Bakhsh, the Accountant. In comparison to these people, the mother of Moses fared far better; she put her child in the river based on her firm faith in the word of God…
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1906
Badr, vol. 2, no. 42, p. 4, dated 18 October 1906
Malfuzat-8, online English edition
On 15 October 1906
Maulawi ‘Abdullah Ghaznavi
Maulawi ‘Abdullah Ghaznavi was mentioned.
The Promised Messiah as said that:
He was a good, righteous man. God caused him to pass away before the time of my claim so that he would not fall into any trial. I had also seen him in my dream. He affirmed my truth
and said that when he was in the world, he was waiting for such a man to be raised.
Elders of Earlier Generations will Not be Called to Account
The Promised Messiah as said:
If the elders who have passed away did not understand the issue of Christ’s death and made a mistake, they are not to be blamed for this, because this matter was not openly explained to them, and they did not face these issues. They tried as best they could to attain taqwa [righteousness] and purity. The example of these people is like that of the Jewish jurists among the children of Israel who had passed away before the time of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, who firmly held on to the belief that the last Prophet who was to
come would be from the descendants of the Prophet Isaac and would be an Israelite. They died and went to Paradise, but when the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, appeared, the issue became clear that the last Prophet to come was from the Ishmaelites and that was how it should have been, then those of the Israelites who did not believe were declared disbelievers and accursed, and they are still walking around humiliated and afflicted going door to door.
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1906-1907
In 1906-1907, MGA mentioned him in Haqiqatul Wahi in terms of sign #92 and a few other instances. MGA alleges to have seen him in a dream. MGA also alleges to have met him at Khairdi and then at Amritsar.
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1909
Nuzulul-Masih, pp. 236–238, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 18, pp. 614–616
MGA alleges to have gotten divine wahi when Maulvi Abdullah Ghaznavi was about to die in 1881. MGA also alleges that Maulavi ‘Abdullah made an affirmation of MGA’s claim in the dream.
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1912
Via Tadhkirah
In 1912, after MGA died, and via [Introduction to the Mirqatul-Yaqin fi Hayat-e-Nur-ud-Din, under subject, Madh’hab wa ‘Aqa’id, p. 39]:
Maulvi Nur ud Din, Khalifatul Masih I relates:
MGA saw him Maulavi ‘Abdullah Ghaznavi in his dream in the form of the Holy Prophet, on
whom be the peace and blessings of Allah. This was on account of his perfect conformity to the sunnah.
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Links and Related Essay’s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Ghaznavi
Izala Auham (1891), Part-1 and 2, quotes and background information – ahmadiyyafactcheckblog
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and his Mubahila with Abdul Haq Ghaznavi (1891-1907) – ahmadiyyafactcheckblog
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