The Great Reformer

Volume 2

  • A Foreword by the Translator

    It is my singular honor to present to you the English translation of the second volume of a biographical work by Dr. Basharat Ahmad Sahib. This is a biography of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib, an eminently pious and religious leader who was born in the town of Qadian in the Indian Subcontinent. His life…

  • A Foreword by the Author

    Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And may blessings and peace be on His Messenger Muhammad Mustafa and on all of his righteous followers and companions. Many thanks to Allah Who has enabled me to present the second volume of The Great Reformer (Mujaddid Azam) to my friends and the public. In…

  • CHAPTER 01: PIR MEHR ALI GOLARWI FLEES FROM HAZRAT MIRZA’S CHALLENGE

    At a distance of a few miles from the city of Rawalpindi is a village called Golrah. An ascetic by the name of Pir Mehr Ali Golarwi lived in that village. He was held in good esteem throughout the areas of Pothwar and Sarhad. According to Pir Golarwi’s disciples, he was a scholar and an…

  • CHAPTER 02: IJAZ-UL-MASIH (THE MIRACLES OF THE MESSIAH)

    Rationale for writing Ijaz-ul-Masih When Pir Golarwi did not respond to Hazrat Mirza’s challenge to par- ticipate in a commentary writing contest and continued to maintain his silence, Maulana Muhammad Ahsan Amrohi wrote a book Shams-e-Bazgha in reply to Pir Golarwi’s book Shams-ul-Hidaya. In this book he demolished the arguments made by Pir Golarwi in his book Shams-ul-Hidaya. But with utter shamelessness, Pir Golarwi’s disciples kept on publicizing the lie that Pir Golarwi…

  • CHAPTER 03: PUBLICATION OF AL-HUDA (THE GUIDANCE) AND THE CHALLENGE TO THE EDITOR OF AL-MINAR

    The Al-Minar proclamation Hazrat Mirza had written the book Ijaz-ul-Masih in Arabic, and it was his wish that the book should be disseminated widely in Arabic-speaking countries like Syria and Egypt. With this objective in mind, the book Ijaz-ul-Masih was dispatched to various scholars and newspaper editors in Egypt. The popular newspapers of Egypt in those days were Al-Minar, Al-Manazir, and Hilal. Hilal was a Christian publication,…

  • CHAPTER 04: THE WRITING OF TUHFA GOLARWIYYA (A GIFT FOR GOLARWI)

    Reasons for Publication: Hazrat Mirza had challenged Pir Golarwi to a Quranic commentary-writing contest under the assumption that he was a spiritual and learned man, and a contest based on their respective knowledge and understanding of the Quran would be an appropriate way to gauge their spiritual standing and purity, and would help to resolve which of the…