The Great Reformer

While discussing the Jhelum lawsuit in Chapter 33, reference was made to the letters that Maulvi Karam-ud-Din wrote in July and August of 1902 to Hazrat Mirza and Hakim Fazal-ud-Din, and in which he had informed them that Pir Mehr Ali Shah Golarwi had plagiarized the book Saif-e-Chishtiyyai. This book, Saif-e-Chishtiyyai, was written in refutation of Hazrat Mirza’s book Ijaz-ul-Masih, and Maulvi Karam-ud-Din alleged that Pir Golarwi had stolen the notes of his deceased brother-in-law, Maulvi Muhammad Hasan Faizi, and included them in Saif-e-Chishtiyyai under his own name.  To prove this point, Maulvi Karam-ud-Din sent Hazrat Mirza thepostcard…

The Lahore branch of the Ahmadiyya Organization had been repeatedly requesting Hazrat Mirza to visit Lahore to fulfill the obligation of the propagation of Islam in their city. Hazrat Mirza had accepted their invitation. At the time, Hazrat Mirza was residing with his family in Gurdaspur where he had moved to conveniently pursue the litigation with Maulvi Karam-ud-Din. At the court hearing of…

Background to the Sialkot trip During Hazrat Mirza’s stay in Lahore, members of the Ahmadiyya Organization from the city of Sialkot had obtained his promisethat he would visit their city as well. They had submitted that the city where Hazrat Mirza had lived for four years in his younger days certainly deserved to be graced by his presence once more. After the litigation with Maulvi Karam-ud-Din was over, Hazrat Mirzaresolved to travel to Sialkot. Accordingly, he informed his disciples in Sialkot that, God willing, he would…

In March 1905, Muhammad Afzal, the editor of the newspaper Al- Badar, died and the publication of the newspaper stopped for afew days. On March 30, 1905, Hazrat Mirza expressed great pleasure that Mufti Muhammad Sadiq had taken over the editorship, and the newspaper had resumed publication. On the advice of Maulvi Abdul Karim, the newspaper was renamed Badar. The rationale behind the name change was that Al- Badar is the Arabic term for the full moon but its appearance has a negative connotation in that it heralds the…

In March 1905, Muhammad Afzal, the editor of the newspaper Al-Badr, died and the publication of the newspaper stopped for a few days. On March 30, 1905, Hazrat Mirza expressed great pleasure that Mufti Muhammad Sadiq had taken over the editorship, and the newspaper had resumed publication. On the advice of Maulvi Abdul Karim, the newspaper was renamed Badr. The rationale behind the…

The date April 4, 1905 is indelibly etched in the minds of the people of Punjab. This was the day when, at the time of the Fajr (morning) prayer, a severe earthquake caused scenes reminiscent of the Judgment Day. The prophecies of Hazrat Mirza regarding this earthquake Hazrat Mirza had prophesied a catastrophic earthquake in his book Barahin Ahmadiyya. But four years prior to the earthquake of April 4, 1905, he drew people’s attention again to such an event in a poem he had composed on the occasion of the Ameen (first completion of the reading of the Holy Quran)…