Family of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad belonged to a royal family who had come from Greater Khorasan and settled in India. The family was a pioneer of promoting Islam in the country until the claiming of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and formation of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The family is of Iranian, Turkish and Chinese descent. The family belonged to Mirza another of whose ancestral families were the Mughal Emperors. The family had remained in royal post during the Mughal Empire.

The ancestors of family and politics of Qadian-1530-1802

In 1530, Mirza Hadi Baig who was a great ancestor of the family left Samarkand for India. He was a descendant of King Timur He migrated with 200 men to Punjab. During, this time King Babur successfully became the emperor of India. For 300 years, the family was in charge of Islamic State of Qadian then the Sikhs began to rise in Punjab. The Islamic State of Qadian and the leader of the family was exiled to another Indian state. The Sikh offered some villages to the elder but he refused saying that it is not according to their family traditions. The Mughal emperors did not take this situation seriously as a threat to themselves which allowed the formation of Sikh Empire in Punjab. At the time of Mirza Ghulam Murtaza, the father of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Maharaja Ranjit Singh offered him five villages. First he had to take allegiance with the Sikh Army. After the defeat of Sikh by the British, in The INDIAN Rebellion of 1857, he sided with British Army. Qadian was taken away from and he was given a pension.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of Ahmadiyya

Murtaza spent his life in returning back the estate of Qadian. He did not live long to see his son's life. His son Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was a religious scholar from India who was publicly known. In 1891, he claimed to be Messiah and Imam Mahdi whom the Muslims were waiting for and since death of Jesus. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was formed in 1889. It resulted in his rejection by the majority of the Muslim, Christian and Hindus clerics.

Caliphate and Family

Except the first Caliph of the community who was not from the family of Ahmad. His son succeeded him as the second caliph. The latter three caliphs are his grandsons and belong to his family.