Life of the Promised Messiah — Page xv
i About the Author Born in Sialkot to Muhammad Sultan and Hashmat Bibi in 1858, he was named Karim Bakhsh. Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, on whom be peace, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi—who would later become his spiritual father and master, and to whom he gave every ounce of his devotion—named him Abdul-Karim. Hazrat Maulana Abdul-Karim Sahib of Sialkot, may Allah be pleased with him, attained his elementary education at the American Mission School, Sialkot; later, he privately studied Arabic and Persian in Sialkot and Gujranwala. After completing his education, he was appointed as a teacher of Persian at the American Mission School in Sialkot. During this time he was always keen to discuss and debate matters of theology with Christians and delivered lectures expounding the qualities and merits of Islam. In 1886, he developed a relationship with Hazrat Hakeem Maulana Nur-ud-Din Sahib, may Allah be pleased with him, who taught him the commentary of the Holy Quran and Hadith. Ultimately, it was this