The Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at — Page 8
The Founder of the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ’at [ 8 ] deputy commissioner in Sialkot as a junior clerk with a salary of 15 rupees per month. Some writers have written that Mirz a Sahib was expelled from his home by his father as a punishment for embezzlement. This was the reason that he had to leave Qadian and take up a menial job in Sialkot. He was employed for about four years and left it in 1885. ( Qadiyaniyyat — A Grave Threat to Islam , p. 9) This objection has two parts. One is that he was employed at a salary of 15 rupees per month, implying that he was a very insignificant person. This also implies that God could not have chosen him to be a Prophet, which thereby repeats the same objection raised by the Pharaoh. The second aspect of this objection is that Prophets do not work for someone else. In addition, the Promised Messiah as is being falsely accused (God forbid) of theft. Supposedly, he had to leave home as a punishment for this theft. We have researched to determine where anyone could possibly have found such an incident as a basis for such an allegation. We found in the biography S i ratul- Mahd i , vol. 1, p. 43–44, narration no. 49: Once the Promised Messiah as went to Sialkot to col- lect his grandfather’s pension. Mirz a Imam-ud-D i n, a member of his family, went after him, snatched the money, and ran away. After this, the Promised Messiah as did not return to Qadian because he deemed it better to earn some money by finding a