Intro
After MGA died (May-26-190), the English Review of Religions of June 1908 gave lots of obituary statements by various newspapers local to the Punjab (they mentioned the “Civil and Military Gazette”, “The Pioneer” from Allahabad, Dated May-30-1908, The “Unity and Minister” from Calcutta, Dated as June 7th, 1908, “The Aligarh Institute Gazette” and the “Arya Pratika” of Lahore) however, they did not mention the obituary of the newspaper Wakil (pronounced Vakil), and the reason was because Maulana Abu Kalamazad claimed that MGA died of cholera (see the full quote and scan in the below), which was well known, even the Ahmadi Khalifa (Maulvi Noorudin) wrote the same in June of 1908.
The Vakil Amritsar, dated 30th May 1908, just a couple of days after the death of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. It’s editor name mentioned on top is Dost Muhammad Shahid. Remember per Seerat ul Mahdi, Mirza used to order this newspaper from Amritsar and was a regular reader of this paper in his lifetime.
The front page of the paper carries article on the death of Mirza as under:-
The Vakil Amritsar dated 30th May 1908
“”””LATE MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD
The day of 26 May 1908 will be remembered in latest religious history of India for long time when at about 10 am Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiyani died of cholera disease or as per saying of few due to some other disease. Late Mirza was staying at Lahore for the treatment of his wife and change of climate but the powerful order of Allah and time of departure which rich and poor common men and Nabi of great caliber have to face, has come for a person who by his amazing claims had created a tremor amongst religious ranks.”””
The scan
7 years later, even Farquhar wrote the same in 1915. This is also the word that was used by MGA’s father-in-law, Mir Nasir Nawab in the 1920’s as he narrated to Shaikh Ali Yacub Irfani his autobiography. In 1918, Ahmadi’s told Walter that MGA had died of intestine trouble, which is proof that Ahmadi’s lie openly and are willingly ordered to cover-up the truth and thus, the story was changed in Ahmadiyya history. Nowadays, Ahmadi’s are willfully ignoring the full facts of what Maulana Abu Kalamazad wrote about MGA. It should be noted that Maulana Abu Kalamazad also believed that Esa (As) had died and would never return to Earth, he also disbelieved in the hadith about the Mahdi, that’s probably why he had a good view of MGA in 1908. In 1919, he famously wrote that Ahmadi’s had gone too far by ascribing prophethood to MGA. By 1936, however, his attitude had totally changed, he called both the Qadiani and Lahori branches as mis-guided. Also, read about Abdul Majeed Salik and his testimony about Maulana Abu Kalamazad and MGA’s death. In 1914, he called Ahmadi’s as “Qadiani’s or “Lahori’s” and wrote about the split in his newspaper, the Al-Hilal. Interestingly, MGA had submitted articles to the Vakil back in the 1870’s (see ROR of Aug-1939).
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