Criticism of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

was the founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement. He has been criticised on various grounds.
Finality of Prophethood
Mirza Ghulam is criticised for his teachings that go against Islamic sources. Consider the following sources:
False Prophecies
Mirza stated:
His critics point out that many of these "prophecies" have been proven false. A few of his prophecies include:
But Mirza only lived for 68 years.
Mirza stated on January 14 1906
But Mirza died in Lahore.
Plagiarism
Ghulam Ahmad has been criticised of plagiarizing, and altering the words of Arab linguists to appear as his own. He claimed that his book Hujjatullah was of superior Arabic. However, several sentences and paragraphs in this text are taken directly without alteration, from Maqamat al-Hariri, the best known poetry collection of the Arabic scholar and poet Al-Hariri of Basra. After this allegation Mirza himself admitted copying the text in his book Hujjatulla in pages 4 and 5.
Relationship with the British
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was aided in his mission by the British government, whose stated policy of "divide and rule" was expressed in their approval of Ahmad's introducing a dissident faction within Islam. Mirza Ghulam is criticised by the orthodox Muslims for his support of the British Government in India and maintain that he and his associates went on publishing in favour of British control and even tried to convince Muslims in other Muslim countries that a British government would be in their favour. It is alleged that he had collaborated with the British against Muslims. They give reference to one of his books in which he said:
However, his followers say that Mirza openly supported the British government in India, and therefore, his critics' consideration of this being tantamount to "conspiring" with the British is baseless. They further argue that his open support for the British was on account of the religious freedom the British extended to the Muslims, as opposed to the preceding Sikh rule in Punjab wherein Muslims were persecuted and their religious freedom curtailed, and that one of the reasons for his expression of loyalty towards the British was due to him being repeatedly presented as a threat and danger to the government with rebellious intent by his opponents such as Molvi Muhammad Hussain Batalvi
Termination of War
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad forbade using Jihad as a pretext to fight. Mirza elucidated his views on Jihad in his book The British Government and Jihad published in 1900, he wrote:
According to Mirza this age did not require defending Islam by the sword but that the Jihad of this age was to be carried out by preaching and defending Islam by speech and by the pen. In another place he writes:
This in clear contradiction with the Quran, the holy text of Islam which permits war in self-defence:

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