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Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: 'was a knowledgeable scholar, a brave reformer and an exemplar of piety. Although we do not acknowledge him as the Promised. Messiah, we admit that his guidance and counsel could, without a doubt, be Messianic for the spiritually dead. "57. Hence while, according to the critics of the Ahmadiyya Muslim. Community, the prestige of the Muslim ulamma and Islam was being considerably damaged by immature sufis and ignorant pretenders to spiritual excellence. in India, 58 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, the. Muslim leaders of non Ahmadiyya persuasion admit: 'brought about a unique revolution in the world of religion and for a period of thirty years, shook the world with his writings and created a storm of extraordinary proportions throughout the globe. '59. Do these adversaries of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad need any further evidence of his exceptional service to Islam? Are they so blinded by their prejudice and consumed by their jealousy that inspite of such repeated acknowledgement of his peerless services to the faith, they still persist in denying the fact that he served Islam in the best of Islamic traditions, the benefit of which according to some of his most passionate critics is being derived in our own century. 60. REJECTION OF REFORMERS. A LONG ESTABLISHED PRACTICE. The rejection of Reformers by the mullahs of the Muslim Ummah has been a long established practice. During the course of one anti. Ahmadiyya publication, its author names six venerable personalities of. Islam of which at least five are acknowledged as Reformers of their respective age by a larger majority of the Ummah. And yet, every one of them was subjected to severe persecution by the clergy of their own age. 57. Ibid 58. Nadwi, A. H: Qadianism. A Critical Study: pg 4 59. Azad, Maulana Abul Kalam: Vakil Amritsar: May, 1908 60. Nizami, Khawaja Hasan: Mundani: 27 February to 4th March, 1930 61. Hasan, S: The Truth About Ahmadiyyat: pgs 2/3 119