The Life of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad — Page 2
FOUNDER OF THE AHMADIYYA MOVEMENT IN ISLAM +. HAZRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD,. THE PROMISED MESSIAH & IMAM MAHDI (Peace be on him) ⚫ He was born in 1835 at Qadian and passed away in 1908. ⚫ He received his first revelation of being commissioned to reform the world in 1882. ● His first voluminous book expounding the excellences of Islam was published in 1884. ⚫ He wrote more than eighty books. ● He established the Ahmadiyya Jama'at (Community) under Divine Command in 1889. ⚫ The Jama'at established by him is carrying on the propagation of Islam all over the world under the guidance of their spiritual leader, the Khalifatul Masih. • The members of this Jama'at are now to be found in almost all the countries of the world. . The Jama'at has an extensive programme for the building of mosques and production of Islamic literature. In 1982 Hazrat Khalifatul Masih IV opened the first Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque in Spain; in 1983 he laid the Foundation Stone of the first Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque in Australia. ● The translations of the Holy Quran have been published in English, German,. Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Swahili, Yoruba, Indonesian, Russian and many other languages. . The membership of the Jama'at now numbers over ten million.