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5. The Promised Messiah, Founder of the. Ahmadiyya Movement, was born on Friday,. This was the time of Sikh. Punjab, and the closing. February 13, 1835. supremacy in the period of the rule of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. . Hazrat Ahmad's father, Mirza Ghulam Murtaza, died in 1876%; and though, even prior to this, Revelation and Inspiration had started to come to him from God, subsequent to the sad demise of his father it grew in volume and frequency, to such an extent that it came to resemble a steady downpour of rain from the heavens. In other words, the moment he was deprived of the protecting hand of his father, Allah Himself firmly took hold of his hand. . In March, 1882, the Promised Messiah received the first Revelation of the call to the. Ministry (Braheen-i-Ahmadiyya, Part III), page 228), this having been the beginning of the great spiritual Jehad, right from the time of. Adam, which has been waged by every Reformer and Apostle from God. But even to this day, the Promised Messiah had not started taking bai'at (pledge of initiation and loyalty) 18