A Critical Review of the Pamphlet, 'Fateh-e-Qadian' — Page 70
70 A critical Review of the Pamphlet—‘f a te h -e-Qadian’ P i r Meher ‘Al i ’s birth and death for certain as 1837 and 1937 respectively. The verse, exactly as published in the book, is as follows: Muhammad F ad il Sa bir declares Pir Meher ‘Al i ’s year of birth as 1837 and then adds the gematrical values of ا (which totals 100) to come up with 1937 as the year of his death. Thus the testimony within Mehr-e-Mun i r establishes that in fact the year of P i r Meher ‘Al i ’s birth was 1837 AD or 1252 AH. To begin with the reasoning involved in lowering the age of the Pir by twenty three years and using a self coined phrase on which to base the gematrical value was fake and utterly baseless. Add to it that the so called touchstone — concocted from the gematrical values of the Arabic letters to prove that P i r Meher ‘Al i was a mujaddid — was shattered by determining 1252 AH as the year of his birth. It may be of interest to the reader that under the verse of Maulav i Muhammad F ad il Sa bir’s dirge referred to earlier, the author of Mehr-e-Mun i r has written: The date of the death of P i r [Meher ‘Al i] which I arrived at from the sum of the gematrical values of the Arabic sentence ّ ودودا ّد ۃ meaning ‘Friend of Allah and the mujaddid of the Divine path has died. ’