The Great Reformer

The Reason for writing the Book Sanatan Dharam: Pundit Ram Bhujdut was the president of the Arya Parthi Nadhi Arya Samaj, Punjab. On March 1, 1903, during the convention of the Arya Samaj in Qadian, Pundit Bhujdut received a copy of Hazrat Mirza’s book Nasim-e-Dawat. Perusing the book, he came across Hazrat Mirza’s objections to the custom of niyog.1 Pundit Bhujdut commented that there were some benefits of niyog and he…

The birth of Ummatun Naseer, and the revelation Ghasiq-Allah Around midnight on the night between January 27 and January 28, 1903, Hazrat Mirza received a Divine revelation that saidGhasiq-Allah. The words mean that Allah was about to cast some darkness i.e., some difficulty or hardship was in the offing. Just about that time, Hazrat Mirza’s wife was going into labor and since this revelation was in the form of a warning, Hazrat Mirza repaired to Maulana Muhammad Ahsan Amrohi’s room…

It had long been Hazrat Mirza’s wish that a small cubicle should be constructed adjacent to the Bait-ul-Fikr (House of Contemplation) solely for the purposes of offering prayer. Hazrat Mirza desired the cubicle to be so compact that not even a bed should fit in it so that it could only be used for worship and prayers. Accordingly, the Bait-ud-Dua (House of Prayer) was constructed during Marchof 1903. All related expenses were borne by Sheikh Rahmatullah, the proprietor of Bombay House, Lahore.1 Footnotes

There lived in the Bhag area of Baluchistan an elderly saint named Faqir Mian Mahmud who was a recipient of Divine revelation and was associated with the performance of miracles. The people of Sindh and Baluchistan came to visit him, often from great distances, to seek his blessings. Once, Qazi Nazeer Husain, Tehsildar of Niabat…

The book Tazkirat-ul-Shahadatain Hazrat Mirza published the Urdu edition of the book Tazkirat-ul- Shahadatain on October 16, 1903. A Persian edition of thebook was published in July of 1904 for readers in Afghanistan and other Persian speaking regions with the idea that the book would help in propagating Hazrat Mirza’s mission in these areas. The book Tazkirat-ul-Shahadatain…

On December 14, 1903, Hazrat Mirza published a small booklet titled Sirat-ul-Abdal, which is really a continuation of Alamaat-ul-Muqarrabin — the final section of Tazkirat-ul-Shahadatain. The book is written in highly eloquent Arabic, and presents the qualities of saints who have an extremely close relationship with God. These saints have been called abdal in a hadith and are also referred to by the same name…