Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page 122
Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen The Way of the Righteous 122 Tablighi Activities (Propagation of Islam) Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as during his lifetime had set up a network of tabligh , and Hakeem Sahib often accompanied him on tours to other Indian cities. In order to place the work of tabligh on a sound footing, Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra trained a team of scholars, who would spread out and take the message of Ahmadiyyat. This team included: Sheikh Ghulam Ahmad, Maulavi Muhammad Ali Sahib Sialkoti, Ghulam Rasool Sahib Wazirabadi and, above all, Maulana Ghulam Rasool Sahib Raajeki, a giant among them. Writing about the tablighi activities of those days, Chaudhry Muhammad Sharif, author of the Silsila Aaliya Ahmadiyya (p. 169), says: The attention of Khalifatul Masih I was all embracing. He was keenly aware of the educational needs of the Jama ‘ at and, at the same time, he would like to place the tablighi activities of the Jama ‘ at on a very high keel, and he felt that India and the Indian cities had a prior claim to tabligh , he, therefore, would train scholars and send them to all corners of the country by holding conferences, lectures and meetings. Teaching of the Holy Qur'an After the demise of the Promised Messiah as , a number of Indian papers commented upon the Ahmadiyya Movement. One of the papers published in Delhi, Curzon Gazette , which was edited by Mirza Hairat of Delhi, editorially commenting on the Movement, observed: Nothing now is left with the Mirzais ( a derogatory term used for Ahmadis ) after the demise of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as , the Movement has lost its head, and the person, who has become head, only knows the Holy Qur'an and he will only be reading and lecturing on the Holy Qur'an in the mosque.