Welcome to Ahmadiyyat, The True Islam

by Dr. Karimullah Zirvi

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Welcome to Ahmadiyyat, The True Islam — Page 215

− Qadian, in the Punjab, India. Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, a devoted ± ± − − ± follower of the Holy Prophet Muhammad announced that he had been a sa ± constant recipient of Divine revelation for some years and God has informed him that the day of the Renaissance of Islam was about to dawn − and this revival would be brought about through him. In 1889, he claimed that he was the expected Reformer of the Latter Days, of the world community of religions, and in the Awaited One 1891 he claimed that he is the Promised Messiah, whose advent in the Latter Days had been prophesied by the Holy Prophet of Islam. He also sa − claimed, under Divine direction, that in his advent were fulfilled the prophecies handed down in all the great faiths of the appearance of a great teacher in the Latter Days. He laid the foundation of the Ahmadiyya ± Muslim after receiving the following revelation from God Jama'at − Almighty: 0 Ó¿i ɼ»A Ÿ»Ë Oοi gA Oοi B¿0¹Î¯ ɼ»A ºiBI fÀYA BÍ Ð ä ä Õ ì ê Ð ä ä æ ä ä æê ä æ ä ä ä ä æ ê å Õ ä ä ä å ä æ ä ä ÅÎJNnN»Ë. ÁÈ FIA ihÃA B¿B¿Ì³ ihÄN». ÆAj´»A Á¼§ ÅÀYj»A r ä æê ä æ äê ä æ å Û ä Ð ä ê æå ì í æ ä ä ê æåê ä Ð æ å æ ä ì ä å Ð æ ì ä ÅÎÄ¿ ÌÀ»A ¾ËA BÃA Ë Pj¿A ÓÃA ½³ ÅοjVÀ»A ½ÎJm ä æê ê Ù å æ å ì ä ä ä ä å æ êå æ éê ê æ å ä æ ê ê æ å æ å æê ä ya Ahmadu barakalla hu fika ma ramaita idh ramaita wa − ± − − − − lakinnalla ha rama Arrahmanu ‘allamal Qur’ana li tundhira − − − ± − − qaumamma undhira aba’u hum wa litastabina sabilul − − − − − mujrimina qul inni ‘umirtu wa ana awwalul mu’minin − − − − Allah bless thee O Ahmad. It was not thou who didst let loose but it was − ± Allah who let loose. The Most Gracious One has taught thee the Qur’an − − so that you shouldst warn the people whose ancestors have not been warned and that the way of the guilty ones might become manifest. Proclaim: I have been commissioned and I am the first of the believers. (Brahin-i-Ahmadiyya, Part III, First Edition, p 238-242; A’ina Kamalati − − ± − − − − Islam, p 550) − 215