The Great Reformer

Reminder regarding Monthly Donations: By the grace of God, membership in the Ahmadiyya Movement was growing daily, and guests were arriving in Qadian in large numbers. Naturally, the expenditures were also increasing, and so, on March 5, 1902, Hazrat Mirza strongly urged the members of his party through a public announcement to contribute generously for the free…

During March and April of 1902, the province of Punjab was in the grip of a severe outbreak of plague. The appointees of God arefull of affection for God’s creatures. Hazrat Mirza felt the pain of the suffering humanity and wrote a pamphlet to inform the public about measures to protect themselves from the calamity of plague. He titled it Daafe-ul-Bala-wa-Mayaar Ahl-ul- Istifaa (Repeller of the Calamity and the Standard of Chosen People.) This pamphlet was published on April 23, 1902. In this pamphlet, Hazrat Mirzasuggested two curative measures to combat the dreaded disease: Hazrat Mirza referred to the prediction he had made four years earlier regarding the outbreak of plague in the province of Punjab andrepeated the words of that Divine revelation: “Certainly Allah does not change the condition of a nation until the people change thecondition of their souls. Surely He sheltered this town.” The reference to town in this revelation was to the town of Qadian. Hazrat Mirza then elaborated upon the significance of…

Heavenly vaccination In the year 1902, the Government made extensive arrangements for plague vaccination in the province of Punjab, and brought in many doctors from England for this specific purpose. The idea was to vaccinate the entire population of Punjab simultaneously and thereby to eradicate the killer disease. The plague vaccination furnished only partial immunity against the disease…

Chiragh-ud-Din’s claim of being a Messenger: Chiragh-ud-Din, a resident of Jammu, joined the ranks of Hazrat Mirza’s disciples. But in April of 1902, a strange craziness came over him. He claimed that he was a messenger of Jesus, and had been sent to make peace between Muslims and Christians, and to remove the discord between the Quran…

The July 10, 1902 issue of Al-Hakam contains an excerpt from a diary from which I want to present a highly enlightening discussion that provides a glimpse into the strength of Hazrat Mirza’s faith. He says: “It is our firm belief that our God never wastes His true servants. If, like Prophet Abraham, His true servant is…

Hazrat Mirza wrote the book Nuzul-ul-Masih to refute the criticism of certain opponents, and in particular to respond to the slanderous attacks of the newspaper Paisa Akhbar, exageration by the Lahore based Shia jurist, Ali Hairi, and the contentions of Pir Mehr Ali Shah Golarwi contained in his book Saif-e-Chishtiyyai. The book was composed in July and August of 1902. Response to the slanderous attacks of the newspaper Paisa Akhbar Hazrat Mirza had prophesied in his book Daafe-ul-Bala that the town of Qadian would not experience the sort of destruction…