The Nazarene Kashmiri Christ — Page 9
9. INTRODUCTION. Dunyapur is a small town in the Multan district of. Punjab. A sitting was held in this town in March 1982 with. Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad in the chair. Amongst those present were a number of non-Ahmadi friends who asked questions concerning the death of Jesus Christ. Hadhrat Mirza. Tahir Ahmad, who is now the head of the International. Ahmadiyya Community, answered these questions. The question-answer session was conducted in Urdu. This is a translation from the original tape. . At the beginning, Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad made a short speech introducing the Ahmadiyya Community. He said that the fundamental difference between the Ahmadiyya. Community and the other sects of Islam concerns the Messiah whose advent was prophesied by the Holy Prophet. Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). The. Ahmadis believe that the promised Messiah has already arrived whereas the rest of the Muslims believe that he is yet to come. . The Ahmadiyya Community was founded by Hadhrat. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (peace be upon him) who claimed in 1889 that he was the Messiah and the Imam whose advent was prophesied by the Holy Prophet. Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) He declared that Jesus Christ is dead and that his second advent was to be through a person who would be raised in his image. . Muslims in general have erroneously assumed that Jesus. Christ would reappear in flesh and blood. . Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad said that for hundreds of years Muslim scholars professed and propagated the belief that the promised Messiah would appear during the fourteenth century of Hijra. Such was the strength of their belief that they declared that even if there was just one hour left to the