The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 185
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI. A CENTURY OF SERVICE OF ISLAM. The Ahmadiyya Movement was established and inaugurated on 23rd March 1889 by Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the. Promised Messiah. The first centenary of the Ahmadiyya Movement was on March 23, 1989. This centenary was celebrated by offering praise to Allah, the Gracious and Merciful. This has been a century of distinguished service of Islam. We have already written about the revival of Islam and service of Islam by the Ahmadiyya Movement. A few points may be added here. . Foremost service of Islam by Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah, was the great Islamic literature in the form of his writings. His writings are a great intellectual miracle. He wrote about eighty books, and a score of which are in Arabic. He wrote mostly in Urdu. All his writings are based upon the Holy Quran and. Hadith. He was blessed by Allah with a profound knowledge of the. Holy Quran. He explained the excellencies and deep knowledge of the. Holy Quran, correcting many previous errors of interpretation. This point cannot be appreciated without reading his writings. He answered effectively all the objections of opponents of Islam like. Christians, Hindus, Rationalists and Philosophers. His literature is unique and defends Islam and establishes its superiority with powerful arguments. He was a lucid and prolific writer. The grandeur of his literature has been acknowledged even by the opponents. On his death, a well known non-Ahmadi journal of Delhi wrote: "The most excellent services rendered to Islam by the late. Mirza Sahib, against the onslaughts of the Araya Smajists and the. Christians, are in fact most praiseworthy. He gave an absolutely new turn to controversy in the field of religion, laying the foundation of a new literature. Not in our capacity as a Muslim, but of a seeker after. Truth, we freely concede that no Arya, however eminent, and no. Christian padre (priest) however well read had the courage to open his lips in the arena against the deceased in his life. He belonged to 185