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Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of Ahmadiyya religious movement in Islam made various claims during his life. He claimed to be the Mujaddid (divine reformer) of the 14th Islamic century, the promised Messiah (“Second Coming of Christ”) and Mahdi. . However, his claims were not accepted by the majority of the mainstream Muslims of his time.

His Claim

Although before his Claim to be the Promised Mahdi and Messiah, he was taken well by some of his later critics like Muluna Abul Kalam Azad for his efforts to take action against Christian Missionaries and a Hindu movement Arya Samaj. He was praised by his critics for his famous Book "Brahin-e-Ahmadiyy", Mirza Ghulam Ahmad declared that he was the Promised Messiah and Mahdi and that his advent was in fulfillment of the various prophecies regarding the promised reformer of the latter days.

Mujaddid

In 1882 he claimed that he had been divinely appointed for the revival of religion and that he was the Mujaddid (reformer). This was the first time he claimed a divine office though he did not take any kind of pledge of allegiance and refused to do so stating that he had not been commanded by God1 until 1889.[http://www.alislam.org/library/history/ahmadiyya/5.html]He published the following revelation:2

"Allah bless thee, O Ahmad. It was not thou who didst let loose but it was Allah Who let loose. The Most Gracious One has taught thee the Quran so that thou shouldst warn the people whose ancestors have not been warned and that the way of the guilty ones might become manifest. Proclaim: I have commissioned and I am the first of the believers. Proclaim: The truth has come and falsehood has vanished away. Falsehood is bound to vanish. Every blessing is from Muhammad on whom be Allah's peace so blessed is he who taught and he who has been taught."

In 1889 he declared that God had commanded him to found a community3 and began to take the pledge of allegiance from people where they will repent of their sins, accept his claim and promise to abide by certain conditions of joining his community.4

Mahdi and Messiah

in 1891 Ghulam Ahmad claimed that God had told him:5

"The Messiah, son of Mary, Prophet of Allah, had died and thou hast come in accordance with the promise. And the promise of Allah was bound to be fulfilled."

He declared that he was the Messiah and Mahdi that was to appear in the latter days and that Jesus Christ was not to return physically having died a natural death. This claim he explained and elucidated in many of his books, advertisements and lectures which proved to be controversial for many people leading him to face opposition throughout the subcontinent of India.6

In one of his books he wrote about his claim and these prophecies:

"Now about my claim which is supported by a host of arguments and proofs....

• Is it not enough to establish the truth of my claim that the Holy Quran has discussed in graphic detail the signs of and circumstances relating to my coming.
• In a way, my name too has been foretold.
• Even the name of my village, namely, Kadaa is also there in the traditions.
• The traditions further prove that the Promised Messiah will be born in the thirteenth century and will appear in the fourteenth.
• In the Sahih Bokhari is found the full description of my facial features.....
• And this too is laid down in as many words that the Promised Messiah will appear to the East of Damascus. And is not Qadian in fact to the East of Damascus?
• Similarly the timely occurrence of lunar and solar eclipses in the month of Ramadhan just when I had announced my claim to be the Promised Messiah and the people at large had refused to accept this claim as authentic.
• Similarly, in keeping with the prophecies of the Quran and the traditions, the invention of the railways and the camel's consequent redundancy;
• obstacles to the performance of Pilgrimage to Kabaa;
• the age of the triumph of the cross;
• the appearance of hundreds of signs at my hands,
• the present time being exactly the time fixed by the earlier prophets;
• my being commissioned to the present office at the head of the century;
• visions and dreams experienced by thousands of virtuous people testifying to my authenticity;
• the statement of the Holy Quran and of the Holy Prophet, that the Promised Messiah will be one of the Ummat;
• my affairs being visited by divine succour;
• the pledge of Baiat (initiation) at my hands by about two hundred thousand people and consequently their following the path of truth and virtue;
• the crumbling of Christianity as a religion and the subsequent softening of the hold of trinity like the melting snows;
• the division of Muslims into a large number of denominational sects and their state of decadence and the numerous innovations and deviations from the norm.
• the current polytheism, alcoholism, [...] promiscuity, dishonesty and falsehood which have run rampant on a global scale and resulted in a great upheaval and crisis in the world
• and on every dimension tremendous revolutionary changes are taking place in the universe.
• and as will be borne out by all reasonable people the world needs a reformer.
• and finally the failure of all to compete with me in miraculously competitive writing and in showing heavenly signs and the fulfillment of hundreds of thousands of divine prophecies in my support.

In short, all these signs and proofs and corroborative circumstances should be sufficient evidence for a God-fearing person to accept my claim..."

His critics on other hand opposed him at many levels. He on many occasions replied about these allegations and saying that he came to revive the Islam. He wrote once ;

In the likeness of Krishna

It is often mentioned that Ghulam Ahmad claimed to be the Hindu God Krishna7. This claim is arguably the most misunderstood of his claims and most often misquoted. According to Ahmad, Krishna was not God but a prophet of God and the Sanskrit term Avatar synonymous with the terms Prophet and Messenger which are popular within the Middle Eastern religious traditions. He published various revelations which he claimed to have received informing him of this, one such revelation addressing him was:

"O Krishna slayer of swine, protector of cows, thy praise is recorded in the Gita"8

In a lecture given in Sialkot in 1904 he declared that God had informed him that Krishna who had appeared among the Aryas thousands of years ago was indeed a prophet of God upon whom the Holy Spirit would descend from God but that later his teachings were corrupted and he began to be worshipped.9 Here he claimed that he was the avatar whom the Hindus were awaiting in the latter days and that he had appeared in the likeness of Krishna invested with the same qualities.10 and in his capacity as such he set out to explain and correct what he perceived to be the erroneous beliefs of the Hindus of his time such as the worship of many Gods and the transmigration of souls.

Reflection of all Prophets

According to Ahmadis the religious reformer prophesied in various religions was to be one and the same person who was to represent all those previous founders of various religions and that, that person was to bring all the religions under the banner of one universal religion, this according to them is Islam and the person Mirza Ghulam Ahmad who in many places declared in no ambiguous terms that he had been given the attributes of all previous Prophets.11

Ahmad claimed that he had been given the qualities of all previous prophets. Explaining a revelation of his which he claimed to have received early in his mission which was:

He created Adam and honoured him. The Champion of Allah in the mantle of Prophets.(Tazkira,pg.110)12

Ghulam Ahmad stated in his book Braheen-e-Ahmadiyya:

This revelation means that I have been bestowed some portion of the special circumstances or special qualities of all the Prophets, peace be on them, who have appeared from God beginning with Adam till the end, whether they were Israelis by descent or non-Israelis. There has not been a single Prophet of whose qualities or circumstances I have not been bestowed a portion...In this there is an indication that many people of this age resemble the bitter enemies and opponents of the Prophets, peace be on them, who had exceeded the limits in their rancor and who were destroyed by various types of torments...There has also been displayed and will be displayed the various types of aid and support which God Almighty had displayed in the case of the previous prophets.13

See also

• Mohammadi Begum

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