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Anti Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam 20th January 21, 1999 

 Versi Intelijen Punjab 

(Punjab Intelligence Version)  

Bagian Pertama

Secret Report of the Punjab CID about the Origin, Growth and Development of The Ahmadiyya Movement Upto the year 1938 Source: National Documentation Center, Islamabad, Pakistan.  

 

MIRZA FAMILY AND THE MUTINY OF 1857

Mirza Ghulam Ahmed of Qadian, District Gurdaspur, the founder of the Ahmadiyya sect was born in 1839. He was descended from a Moghal family of Samarkand, which emigrated the Punjab in 1530 and settled in the Gurdaspur district. For several generations the family held offices of respectability under the imperial Government and it was only when the Sikhs became powerful the it fell into poverty.

MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD'S CLAIMS AND MUSLIM REACTION.

During the reign of Ranjit Singh, however, Mirza Ghulam Ahmed's father, Ghulam Murtaza, was received back into favour and with his brothers, performed efficient services in the Maharaja's army on the Kashmir frontier and at other places. On the annexation of the Punjab by the British, jagirs of the family were resumed but a pension of Rs.700 was granted to Ghulam Murtaza and his brothers and they retained their proprietary rights in Qadian and the neighboring village. The family did excellent services during the mutiny of 1857.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmed first came to notice in 1876 when he claimed to receive revelations direct from God. In 1883 he published revelation referring to himself as a messenger and Prophet. In 1891 he declared himself to be the Promised Mehdi or Messiah of the Muslim faith, a claim which led to the issue of fatwas in 1876-1891 condemning him as an infidel by leading ‘ulemas'. Being a skilled theologian and dialectician, however, he soon won over a large number of people to his tenets, though he was of course condemned by all orthodox Muhammadans as an impostor and heretic. The beliefs of the Ahmadis are briefly summarized in Mirza's decalogue which he called the ten conditions of `Baiat' (initiation). In them sympathy with all persons, Muslim or non-muslims is enjoined, and it is asserted that the conquest of the world to Islam is to be effected by peace and not by war. Mirza's speeches and writings and his proselytizing zeal naturally led to some ill-feeling, yet, so far as is known, there is not a single incident on record in which his followers have been denied the use of mosques of Muhammadan praying-grounds or have in any way been molested, except in one case at Cuttack where some convert to Ahmadiyyaism wished to change the form of worship in the principal mosque in the town - a course to which the rest of the Muhammadan population naturally objected.

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