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He therefore claims that he and his disciples can be fitly described as Ahmadiyyah, the society of peace.
The family of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is of Moghul descent, and came into India from Samarkand, Turkistan, in the reign of Babar, the founder of the Moghul Dynasty. The Mirza Sahib himself professes to be altogether loyal to the British Government, and he often cites as proof of his loyalty the services rendered to Government by his father and his brother (or rather first cousin, Ghulam Kadar son of Ghulam Muhammad), during the mutiny of 1857, on account of which the latter received honourable mention in Sir Lepel Griffin's book, The Panjab Chiefs (vol. ii, pp. 49-50, new ed. by Massy). Another first cousin, by name Mirza Imam-ud-Dīn, attained to some notoriety of another sort. Although he remained a Muhammadan until his death (in 1903), yet he posed as the quru, or religious guide of the chuhras, or sweeper community, in the Panjab, and advised them not to become either Muhammadans or Christians, but to remain as they are.
Both men, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and Mirza Imam-ud-Din, lived in the same village of Qadian. Mirza Imam-ud-dīn claimed to be a kind of successor to Lai Beg, the traditional religious guide of the sweepers, and to have the mission of teaching them morality, and to this end he prescribed the Ten Commandments with certain editorial changes (vide Hidayatnama, p. 15). But the claims of his cousin, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad are far more pretentious. He professes to have come: (1) in the "spirit and power" of Jesus Christ and so to be "the promised Messiah"; (2) in the spirit and power of Muhammad and so to be the promised Ahmad; and (3) in the spirit and power of Krishna, and so to be the promised future Incarnation expected by the Hindus. Thus, in one of his last conspicuous utterances ("The Future of Islam," a lecture delivered at Sialkot November 2nd,...
He therefore claims that he and his disciples can be fitly described as Ahmadiyyah, the society of peace.
The family of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is of Moghul descent, and came into India from Samarkand, Turkistan, in the reign of Babar, the founder of the Moghul Dynasty. The Mirza Sahib himself professes to be altogether loyal to the British Government, and he often cites as proof of his loyalty the services rendered to Government by his father and his brother (or rather first cousin, Ghulam Kadar son of Ghulam Muhammad), during the mutiny of 1857, on account of which the latter received honourable mention in Sir Lepel Griffin's book, The Panjab Chiefs (vol. ii, pp. 49-50, new ed. by Massy). Another first cousin, by name Mirza Imam-ud-Dīn, attained to some notoriety of another sort. Although he remained a Muhammadan until his death (in 1903), yet he posed as the quru, or religious guide of the chuhras, or sweeper community, in the Panjab, and advised them not to become either Muhammadans or Christians, but to remain as they are.
Both men, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and Mirza Imam-ud-Din, lived in the same village of Qadian. Mirza Imam-ud-dīn claimed to be a kind of successor to Lai Beg, the traditional religious guide of the sweepers, and to have the mission of teaching them morality, and to this end he prescribed the Ten Commandments with certain editorial changes (vide Hidayatnama, p. 15). But the claims of his cousin, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad are far more pretentious. He professes to have come: (1) in the "spirit and power" of Jesus Christ and so to be "the promised Messiah"; (2) in the spirit and power of Muhammad and so to be the promised Ahmad; and (3) in the spirit and power of Krishna, and so to be the promised future Incarnation expected by the Hindus. Thus, in one of his last conspicuous utterances ("The Future of Islam," a lecture delivered at Sialkot November 2nd,...
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