IDENTIFICATION OF
TRUE MASIH OF LAST ERA
A subject for
the thoughtful
&
A treatise for the fair-minded
By
Maulana Muhammad Yusuf Ludlaanvi
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
IDENTIFICATION SIGNS OF HAZRAT MASIH
1. Times of Hazrat Masih’s Arrival mirza
check-mated in the light of his statement
2. Duration
of Masih’s stay on earth
3. Details
relating to Hazrat Masih’s personality
(a) Marriage and Children
(b) Haj and Pilgrimage
(c) Death and Burial
4. Hazrat
Masih will descend from the sky
5. Details
of Deeds of Hazrat Masih
(a) Who is Masih
(b) Masih will be a just authority
(c) Breaking of the Cross
(d) Wars will cease and Jazia will end
(e) Killing of Dajjal
(f) General conditions at the time of
descent of Hazrat Masih
(g) Disinclination towards world and
recourse to Allah
MY LAST WORD
FOREWORD
Allah’s
Prophet Muhammad (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam)
has informed that some major signs shall precede the occurrence of the
Resurrection Day. Among them are: Appearance of Hazrat Mahdi,( ) emerging of Dajjal, the one-eyed impostor, and
descending of Hazrat Masih Isa Bin Mariam (as) in this world. This Tradition
has been received as a Mutawatir Hadith.
Many
insolent adventurists sprang up in the past, claiming to be Mahdi or Masih but
their claims paled down on the touchstone of truth and facts. However, their
protagonists in some numbers are still alive. Taking his cue from these liars,
mirza ghulam ahmed of qadiyan (
In
Rajab, 1399, A.H., I wrote a pamphlet which was in reply to a letter, a
qadiyani had sent me. In this I enumerated some holy utterances of the holy
Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) in
this regard. These were but the same as mirza ghulam ahmed had himself earlier
acknowledged. mirza admitted that these special signs must precede before Masih
comes forth in the world. Despite what he had admitted, he came out later with
the claim that he himself was Mahdi and Masih knowing well that he was telling
lies and making false claims.
My
pamphlet, which is now before you titled as Shinakht, (Identification),
has been published several times in the past but here is its revised edition.
May
Allah, the Exalted, grant it approbation and turn it into an instrument for
guiding the misguided ones.
Muhammad Yusuf
Ludhianvi
Rajab 14,1410,
A.H.
IDENTIFICATION
SIGNS OF
HAZRAT MAsih
A
qadiyani gentleman once wrote me a piece of advice. He told me:
“You
have made lots of plans and schemes for the destruction and ruin of mirza
ghulam ahmed. You have shown all possible hostility to his God and Prophet.
Now, come, be kind to yourself for God’s sake. If you can’t reform your own
self, at least don’t invite God’s displeasure to hit you because you are
misguiding people and carrying them away from what is true.”
My
answer was: “Indeed, indeed, I value your advice. mirza ghulam ahmed, if really
a Masih and a Mahdi, my denial of him amounts to my denying Allah. I stand
exposed, inviting His displeasure because I am misguiding people. But same to
you, my brother-in-humanity, if it happens the other way round, that is, if
mirza ghulam ahmed turns out to be a cheat”.
While
analysing the contents of your letter I saw that you quoted one statement of
the holy Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam).
You wrote that he said: “When Masih and Mahdi appear, convey to them my
salaam.” Now, I ask you: Along with this message, the Prophet (Sallallaho
Alaihe Wassallam) must have also told the Ummah how to recognise and identify
Masih, because unless he is recognised how would the Ummah convey to him the
Prophet’s message of salaam. Also, when we should expect Masih to come; how
long he will stay; what about his physical looks, his dress; where he will go;
what he will do; when and where he will die; and so on. Yes, for your
information, all necessary signs and details about these matters have been
bequeathed to the Ummah in the exalted Traditions of the holy Prophet
(Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam).
Let’s
analyse these signs one by one. Let’s see, whether mirza fits into them. If he
does, OK, take him on as Masih and call others to do the same, but if he does
not, then, I shall take you for a ride and tell everybody that mirza ghulam
ahmed was an ultra-hoax. I wouldn’t stop at that. I would also say that
chicanery has degrees; Syed Muhammad Jaunpuri (U.P.,
Therefore,
it is a duty, yours, mine and that of everybody to focus mirza into the light
of those identification signs the holy Ahadith specify. If mirza’s parameter
blurs, be honest to reject him. Take up my gauntlet since it’s you who have
stirred up the hornets’ peace. I proceed with Allah’s guidance:
1. Times
of Hazrat Masih’s Arrival
When
will Hazrat Masih (as) come is obviously the foremost question. For an answer
to it, I quote your grand-sire mirza ghulam ahmed himself from his book Haqiqat-ul
Wahi, p.193:
Translation:
First sign: “Said Allah’s Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe
Wassallam) Allah will raise for this at the head of each century, one person who
will revive Deen for it. (Abu-Dawood). And this is also unanimously
agreed among Ahle-Sunnat that the last revivalist of this Ummah is the promised
Masih who will appear in the last era. Now this should be enquired into whether
this era is the last one or not? Jews and Christians, both the nations agree,
that this is the last era. Ask them, if you like”. (Haqiqat ul
Wahi, p.193)
Mirza
in the above statement has tacitly alluded to himself as Masih.
Mirza check-mated in the light of his
above statement
*Major premises: as established by Mirza
himself:
(a) Saying
of the holy Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) that one revivalist will head
every century.
(b) Unanimous
agreement among Ahle-Sunnat that Masih will be the last revivalist of the last
era.
(c) Jews
and Christians agree that mirza’s period is the last era.
*Minor
premises: also established by mirza
(a) Fourteenth
century is the last century.
(b) In
it will come the last revivalist.
(c) The
last revivalist will be Masih.
*Proof
(a) Fourteenth
century is finished.
(b) Fifteenth
century has started.
(c) New
revivalist will come in fifteenth century.
*Q.E.D.
(a) Mirza
is not the last revivalist.
(b) Mirza
is not Masih.
(c) Mirza
is an arch-hoax.
I
expect my qadiyani well-wisher to understand this much of geometry at least! If
honest, let him give a straight verdict:
That mirza is justm
irza
Neither Masih nor
Mahdi,
But only a Masquerade
Patriarch of progeny
Of the gullible and
the cunning.
2. Duration
of Masih’s stay on earth
Second
question is how long Masih will live in this world. The Ahadith say forty
years. mirza mahmud ahmed acknowledged it (Haqiqat un Nubuwwah p. 192).
His father, mirza ghulam ahmed, had already declared likewise. He rather
claimed to have had a revelation to the effect that he would preach for forty
years. In his Nishan-e-Aasmani on p. 13 his poetic vein throbbed when he
quoted Shah Niamat Ullah Wali and conveniently fitted the contents of his
couplet upon himself.
Translation:
“Till forty years O brother mine, era of that cavalier, I see”. (mirza calling
himself a cavalier)
Mirza further writes:
Translation:
“From that day, the Imam will reveal himself, as one who is divinely inspired;
he will have a life of forty years thereafter. Now let it be clear that this
humble has been commissioned for preaching the truth by special revelation in
fortieth year of his life and has been given a good news that ‘thy age is up to
80 years or thereabouts’. Therefore, by this revelation my preaching commission
is proved up to 40 years, out of which full 10 years have already passed”.
It
is evident from mirza’s above statement that he means to say that Hazrat Masih
(as) will live for forty years on his second coming to the world. Claiming
Messiahship in 1891, mirza died on May 26, 1908; living 171/2 years
as a self-proclaimed Masih in the world. If we also include that period when he
claimed only to be a Mujaddid and not Masih, even then till June 1892 (the year
of publication of Nishan-e-Aasmani) the period of ‘full ten years’ will
be further added. In other words his claim of Messiahship started in 1882 and
by 1908 his living period would be 26 years. Hence even then mirza did not
fulfil the Prophetic saying (viz. Masih will stay in the world for forty years)
and his claim of Messiahship did not prove true. Consequently, I ask, did mirza
complete his 40 years of preaching since ‘that humble had been commissioned’?
No, never. Yet another proof of his lies!
Lies mounting upon
lies
A veritable mountain of lies.
Ironically
someone told me: mirza was going to die in 1922 but look at Hazrat Izraeel (as)
who started his count-down in 1908; good that he was packed up earlier and was
released from his melancholic hyster-mania. Had not the world seen of him,
heard of him, enough!
3. Details
relating to Hazrat Masih’s personality
(a) Marriage
and Children
According
to Mishkat Shareef (p.480) Hazrat Masih (as) on coming down to the world
will marry and have children.
Mirza
admits this in juxtaposition and support of his own ‘celestial’ marriage. He
writes:
“Allah’s
Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) has
already foretold in support of this prediction (i.e. Muhammadi Begum’s
marriage with mirza ‘in the sky’) that the promised Masih will take a wife[1] and will
be father of children. Now, to mention wife and children is obviously a normal
occurrence because everyone marries and has children; so no excellence in that.
But (a particular mention of) taking a wife and having children means some
special wife and some special children. In this respect a prediction of this
humble self is already there. In other words, it appears the Prophet
(Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) is
giving a reply to the doubts of the black-hearted unbelievers that these events
will certainly occur!”
(Appendix Anjam-e-Atham, p.53)
A
person who does not believe in the fulfilment of Prophetic utterances is no
doubt black-hearted.
Mirza
had written this in 1896. By that time, he had married twice and he had
children from both wives. But no excellence in that, he said. The marriage to
be excellent had to be in the nature of a token from Allah. But neither the
“special marriage” nor “special children” were in mirza’s luck. Thus, he failed
to match the criteria of identification which the Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe
Wassallam) has established for
Hazrat Masih (as). This is another point which proves that mirza was not Masih.
(b) Haj
and Pilgrimage
In
course of fixing an account of the events from the life of Hazrat Masih (as)
the Prophet of Allah (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) spoke very specifically about the performance of Haj and
Umra by hazrat Masih (as) and also about conveying his salaam to the holy
Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) when he (i.e. Masih (as) would
present himself at the holy mausoleum in Madina Munawwara. (Mustadrak Hakim,
Vol. 2, p. 595). mirza himself had acknowledged that it would happen.
Consequently according to his Ayyam-e-Sulh p.168, once, when he was
asked as to why he did not perform Haj by then, he replied:
“Our
Haj will be at the time when Dajjal having forsaken his infidelity and
deception would perform Baitullah’s tawaf, because, according to Hadith
Sahih, same would be the time for the promised Masih to perform Haj”.
At
another place, it is reported in mirza’s Malfoozat (Record of
conversations):
“Letter
of Maulvi Muhammad Husain Batalvi was read out in the esteemed presence of
hazrat promised Masih, wherein objection was raised as to why he did not
perform Haj. In reply, the promised Masih said: ‘My first assignment is killing
of swine[2] and
breaking of the ‘cross’. I am still killing swine; many swine have died but
many hard cores are still left. Let there be some respite and disengagement!”
(Malfoozat-e-Ahmediya, Part Five, p.264, compiled
by Manzoor Ilahi).
The
world knows that mirza was denied the good fortune of performing Haj and
pilgrimage to the Prophet’s mausoleum till at last he breathed away into thin
air. This proves again that he was not the promised Masih and did not match the
token set up by the Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam).
(c) Death
and Burial
Allah’s
Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) said that Hazrat Masih (as) would die
after completing the duration he was destined to pass in the world and that
Muslims would offer his funeral prayers and bury him in the holy mausoleum by
the side of Hazrat Abu Bakr and Hazrat Umar (rzu) (Mishkat, p.480)
Admitting
this statement of the Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) mirza writes in his
book, Kashti-e-Nooh, p.l5:
“The
Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) says ‘the promised Masih will be buried
in my grave,’ that is to say he (Masih) is the same as I!”
At
another place, in Izala-e-Auham he writes on page 470:
“Possibly
there may come some resembler of Masih who may be buried near the mausoleum of
the Prophet” (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam).
The
whole world knows that mirza never had a chance to breathe in the air of
Madinah. He lies buried in qadiyan. Hence he could not be deemed the promised
Masih.
4. Hazrat
Masih (as) will descend from the sky
That
Masih (as) for whom the Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) desired his salaam to be conveyed
will be the one who would descend from the sky. In his book, Izala-e-Auham
on page 81, mirza himself confirmed this indication given by the Prophet
(Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) as follows:
“For
instance this word is there in the Hadith of Sahih Muslim that when
Hazrat Masih will descend from the sky, his dress will be of yellow colour!”
Now,
who does not know that mirza came out from the womb of Chiragh Bibi? Is a
woman’s womb called ‘sky’. Can you still say mirza was Masih?
5. Details
of deeds of Hazrat Masih
The
holy Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam)
has given the details of the deeds which shall be accomplished by Hazrat
Masih; for instance, Hadith of Sahih Bukhari says:
“I swear by Him in Whose hands is my life that
soon there will descend among you Hazrat Isa Ibn-e-Mariam as a just authority;
so (he) will break the ‘cross’, kill swine and discontinue war!” (Sahih Bukhari, Vol. 1,
p. 490)
This
noble Hadith mentions several deeds which Hazrat Masih will perform after his
descent. Before going into those, let’s evaluate the significance of the Oath
which was taken here by the Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam). First of all
you should understand what does an oath signify. An oath, as ever, is
pronounced on those occasions where, either the assertion appears doubtful, or
some element of astonishment exists or where the assertion admits no
incongruity. Absolute credence in the veracity of a statement is the sine
qua non of an oath. mirza agrees to this and in his book Hamamat ul
Bushra on page 14 he says:
“An
oath vouches that the news must go along with its prima-facie; there is no
interpretation in it and no exclusion”.
(a) Who
is Masih (as)
The
Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam)
testified that:
(i) Name
of the coming Masih shall be Isa: But mirza’s name was not Isa. It was
ghulam ahmed. Imagine the difference between Isa and ghulam ahmed? Any
connection between the two?
(ii) Name
of Masih’s mother is Mariam Siddiqa: But the name of mirza’s mother was
Chiragh Bibi.
(iii) Masih
(as) shall descend from the sky:
But mirza did not descend from the sky.
The
Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) pronounced
the above three signs on oath and mirza admitted them all. To quote him again:
“An oath vouches that the news goes along with its prima-facie; there is no
interpretation in it and no exclusion.” Therefore, judge for yourself the act
of that man who takes the liberty of circumventing the oath of the Prophet
(Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam). Would
he be considered to have faith in the Prophet? (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) Certainly not!
(b) Masih
(as) will be a Just Authority
The
Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) also pronounced on oath that Masih (as)
will come in the capacity of a ruler who is just and will perform Khilafat
duties and would be a sovereign over the entire Millat-e-Islamia. On the other
hand, we find mirza begged to remain the most obedient servant of Queen
More
so, mirza was never a ruler of any description anywhere; far from it. He did
not exercise any authority over any
“It
is possible, rather very much possible, that such Masih will come in some era
on whom the apparent words of the Ahadith of the Prophet (Sallallaho
Alaihe Wassallam)
will fall true because this humble self has not come down with sovereignty or
rulership of the world”.
Thus mirza cannot be deemed Masih because
he does not befit the holy Prophet’s (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) edict.
(c) Breaking
of the Cross
Hazrat
Isa’s most important mission, after descending on the earth will be the
reformation of his people who shall consist of his antagonists, the Jews and
his protagonists, the Christians.
In
those days, Dajjal the Jew, will be the leader of all the Jews. Hazrat Isa (as)
will first put him to death and then make an end of the Jews. Then he will turn
towards the Christians and reform them of their misguided notions that stemmed
from the beliefs of Trinity, Crucification and Expiation. His descending in
day-light before all eyes, the very spectacle, will dispel the deification
dogma. A human among humans, his physique will refute dogmas of Trinity, Cross
and Atonement. With a living Masih (as) around and spurious beliefs negated,
the Christians shall pray to Allah for forgiveness. Naturally, they will take
to Islam and will throw away all ‘crosses’, none remaining.
As
you know, most evils in society take root from pork-eating. Therefore, Hazrat
Isa (as) will destroy swine. In this way he will uproot all noxious practices
at religious and social levels. Christians, converted to Islam, will break
‘crosses’ themselves and kill pigs and swine.
Could
mirza accomplish all this? How could he go against his swine-eater masters.
Does a vassal go against his lord?
During
the period he alleged he was busy in breaking the cross, he got an excuse that
he had no time to go to Haj. The fact remains that Christianity made great
progress during that very period. In his book, Izala-e-Auham he writes
on page 491:
“When
slightly over half of the thirteenth century had passed, then this group of
Dajjals appeared. They continued to make substantial progress till the end of
this century. Then, as Padre Baker Sahib said, Christians reached up to the
pitch of five lakh in
It was the ill-omened step of mirza that
caused so many Christian bloomings to sprout up in
“Do
you know, there are 137 Christian missions operating in
In
the (Christian) Salvation Army[3]
there are 308 European and 2,866 Indian priests. Under them there are 507
Primary Schools in which 18,675 students study. Under different departments of
this ‘Army’, 3,200 men are nourished. As a result of these efforts and
sacrifices it is said that 224 persons of different religions are being daily
converted to Christianity in
Al-Fazl reports
81,760 persons becoming Christians every year in 1941 in
Let your conscience be the judge and
remove the impure from the pure if you can. Take it for sure that there will
come down the real Masih, and not this scarecrow! That Masih, who will wipe off
the relics of Christianity from the face of the earth, will be different from
this impostor.
Nothing
what mirza says stands but on crutches of circumvention. When foretellings of
the Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) are straightforward why believe in
the crookedness of a crook.
But
mirza had a brain-wave. He came out with an idea and said that Masih (as) was
lying buried in a grave in Mohalla Khan Yar in
“In
fact our purpose in life is twofold; one, to kill a prophet and second, to kill
Satan”. (Malfoozat, Vol. 10, p. 60).
But
those upon whom Allah has bestowed knowledge are aware that killing of the god
of Christians was an “accomplishment” of sir syed ahmed! At a time when mirza
ghulam ahmed firmly believed in a living Masih and used to prove that Masih was
alive by quoting the Ayat of the holy Quran and his own ‘revelation’ as
on pages 498-99 and 505 in his braheen-e-ahmediya, Sir Syed Ahmad at
that very time had vainly and presumptively proved the death of Hazrat Isa (as)
(God forbid) on the holy Quran’s testimony. Result was that some persons were
misguided by the notions of Sir Syed Ahmad, and men like Hakeem Noor-ud-Din,
Maulvi Abdul Kareem and Maulvi Muhammad Ahsan Amrohvi and some modern educated
people fell a prey to the belief of Masih’s death. Therefore, if proving
Masih’s death means breaking the ‘Cross’ then, it is Sir Syed who deserves the
title of the ‘promised Masih’ and ‘breaker of Cross’, and not mirza!
Anyhow,
it should also be noted that ‘Cross’ worship and expiation dogmas came to be
accepted by the Christians when the ‘Cross’ was regarded sanctimonious because
‘hanging’ of Hazrat Isa (as) and
his dying on it is the belief of Christians. mirza differs from this belief
only over one detail, that is, he says that Isa (as) did not die as a result of
hanging but feigned dead-like and contrived to escape into Kashmir where he
died a natural death later. In short, mirza agrees with the Christians that Isa
(as) is dead; so wherefore his claim of breaking the ‘Cross’ stands?
Islam
calls the whole episode a story made up by the Jews in which the Christians
acquiesced and I say mirza, in his folly followed suit trailing behind them.
Therefore, in Islam, Isa (as) was never crucified. Hence the crucifix has no
sanctity. This truth will unravel at the time of Hazrat Isa’s descent. His
sublime presence shall put all spurious beliefs to naught.
(d) Wars
will cease and Jazia will end
The
above-quoted Hadith of Sahih Bukhari has mentioned the words () as
one great deed of Hazrat Masih (as) i.e., he will put a stop to strife and war.
Other Traditions in which these words are used, purport to signify that levy of
Jazia will cease. mirza mounts up his falsehood on the basis of this Prophetic
saying and asks Islamic Ummah to become obedient to the British Government. For
this reason he declared that holy wars waged against the British were ‘Haram’
(forbidden.). On the other hand, this Tradition merely meant to say that after
the arrival of Hazrat Masih (as) all sorts of dissensions against one another
shall disappear, whether religious or secular. There will be neither enmity nor
resentment, no squabbles, no fights. In this situation, Jazia will
automatically cease because religious feuds would have disappeared.
But,
historically we find that during the post-death era of mirza, his ill-omened
being heralded poppies of two World Wars with sporadic outbreaks of hostilities
here and there, while the third world war is looming large on humanity’s head
like the sword of Damocles. Far from putting an end to Jazia, mirza’s qadiyani
Jamaat today is eating bread and butter of non-Muslims in
Be
just and tell me if the tokens the Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) swore by are discernible anywhere in
mirza’s personality? Certainly not. Ponder, is mirza a Masih or a laughing
stock?
(e) Killing
of Dajjal
As
the Chief of Jews, Dajjal will first of all show himself off as a very holy
man, then he will claim prophethood, next he will claim to be God (Fath-ul-Bari,
Vol. 13, p. 79). He will be one-eyed and () (kafir)
or () will be inscribed on his forehead which every
literate and illiterate Muslim shall be able to decipher. He will make his own
paradise and hell. (Mishkat. p. 473). Seventy thousand Jews of Esfahan
will accompany him. (Mishkat, p. 475). He will appear forth from the
middle of
Allah
will give Dajjal leeway and capacity to rouse people to rebellion. Before his
appearance there will be three exacting years, in the first of which, rainfall
will be less by one-third of the normal, leading to a shortfall of one-third in
grain production; rains in the second year will be less by two-third, resulting
in a shortfall of grain by two-third, till in the third year there will be no
growth as not one drop of rain will fall. Beasts and cattle will die on account
of severe famine and drought. On the other hand, rain will fall on lands of
those persons who would have reposed their faith in Dajjal. Therefore, their
lands shall have vegetation and cattle shall return from pastures with filled
bellies; those having no faith in him will be indigent and their cattle
destroyed.
(Mishkat, pp. 473-474)
When
Dajjal shall go over desolate places, he will order the land to throw its
treasures out; consequently treasures will emerge and accompany him. (Mishkat,
p.473). He will tell a bedouin, “If I bring your dead camels to life will
you have faith in me?” He will reply, “Certainly!” Then, Satans, appearing as
camels, shall come before him. He will think that his camels have really become
alive. Thus, bound by spells, he will believe in Dajjal as God. Similarly he
will tell a person, “If I bring your father and brother back to life, will you
believe in me?” He will say, “Certainly”! Then he will go to the graves of his
father and brother and there, Satans looking like his father and brother, will
come out to him and say, “Yes, this is God and do believe in him.” (Mishkat,
p. 477). In this way, Dajjal, will mislead humanity and only Allah’s chosen
people will not be influenced by his deceit and trickery. Therefore the Prophet
(Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) was pleased to say in his will, that on hearing
Dajjal’s appearance people should run away from him. (Mishkat, p. 475).
At
last Dajjal will turn towards Madinah Tayyibah but will not be able to enter
Madinah and will encamp behind Uhad mountain. Then, angels of Allah, the
Exalted, will turn his direction towards the country of
At
the time when Dajjal will be heading towards
Imam
Tirmizi according to a narration of Hazrat Mujammi ibn Jariyah (rzu) relates
this holy saying of the holy Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) that ‘Hazrat Isa (as) will kill
Dajjal at ‘Bab-e-Lud’, and says:
“Ahadith
in this context have been related from Imran bin Husain, Naafey bin Aqbah, Abi
Barzah, Huzaifah bin Usaid, Abi Hurairah, Kaisan, Usman bin Abil Aas, Jabir,
Abi Umamah, Ibne Masood, Abdullah bin Umar, Samurah bin Jundab, Nawwas bin
Samaan, Umar bin Auf, Huzaifah bin Yaman (that is from fifteen Companions or
Sahabah) (rzu) This Hadith is Sahih.” (Tirmizi, Vol. 2, p. 48).
Above
is the description of that creature called Dajjal whose killing has been
foretold by the Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) and whose liquidator has to be conveyed the salaam of the
holy Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) Can any one professing faith in the
Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) declare
that a Dajjal of such description has ever emerged in the world and has any Isa
bin Mariam killed him? Only a person without faith in the holy Prophet (Sallallaho
Alaihe Wassallam) can waver.
Now
judge what mirza does. Because he had counterfeited Masih, the need arose to
make one artificial Dajjal also. This he did by means of a master idea. He
announced that the group of Christian Padrees was Dajjal. qadiyanis believe in
this but they know that Padrees have been here for centuries. They were
existing even before the Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam). If they were Dajjal, wouldn’t have
the Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam)
said so and do these Padrees match the same description as the Prophet
(Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) had foretold about Dajjal. And if by any stretch
of imagination, Padrees are Dajjals, did mirza’s so-called messiahship kill
them? Do they not exist today? No logic is needed to disprove this. If mirza’s
Dajjal has been killed wherefrom is this multitude of Padrees and wherefore is
Christianity making progress?
(f) General
Conditions at the time of descent
of Hazrat Masih (as)
The
Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) gave
a detailed account of the pattern of auspiciousness that would be prevailing in
the times of Hazrat Isa (as) For the sake of brevity, I quote one Hadith and I
have selected this one because it has been translated into Urdu by mirza mahmud
ahmed qadiyani, son of mirza ghulam ahmed qadiyani, in his book Haqiqat-un-Nubuwwah
on page 192. This is what mirza mahmud ahmed has written. He quotes the
Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam)
“Prophets
are like brothers-in-affinity. Their mothers are different but Deen is one. And
I have the closest connection with Isa bin Mariam because in between him and
myself there is no prophet and he is about to descend. Therefore, when you see
him, recognise him, that he is even-stature with red-white mixed complexion and
wearing yellow clothes. Water shall be dropping from his head, although water
will not have been shed over the head. He will break the ‘cross,’ kill the
swine and will forsake ‘Jazia’ and will invite people to Islam. Lions and
camels, leopards and cows, wolves and goats will graze about together. Children
will play with snakes and they will not harm them. Isa bin Mariam will remain
on earth for forty years and then he will die and Musalmans will offer his
funeral prayer.”
I
ask you to read once again this Hadith which your own Chief of Jamaat, mirza
mahmud wrote in his book. You see for yourself if this was the condition that
prevailed when mirza ghulam ahmed was alive? While the Prophet (Sallallaho
Alaihe Wassallam) is saying that wars will cease, yet reports from news-media
indicate that only 24 days in this century have been such that human blood has
not flowed on our terra firma. During Hazrat Isa’s (as) time there will be such
peace and tranquility that not to speak of relations between two men, even the
beasts will not harbour enmity against one another. But here among mirza’s own
Jamaat flames of enmity and hatred are blazing; what to say about others!
Disinclination towards world and recourse
to Allah
At
the end of the Hadith of Sahih Bukhari mentioned above, the Prophet
(Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) also said that riches shall start flowing like
torrents in the times of Hazrat Isa (as) to the extent that nobody will come
forward to take them and one prostration in prayer () will be deemed better than all the world can
offer. (Sahih Bukhari, Vol. 1, p. 49). Reason will be that men will be
disinclined towards accepting worldly riches, as Hazrat Isa’s descent will
assure them that the Day of Reckoning is close at heels. They will abstain from
sins. Secondly, Hazrat Isa’s guidance, transmuting vices into virtues, will
tend to brighten human values of godliness. Thus, with the world, having
disgorged its fortunes, and indigence having disappeared, nobody will obviously
be left to accept alms and () (obligatory
charity payable on wealth, mistakenly known as ‘poor-due’). In
this situation salat, as a means of attaining Divine proximity, will take
precedence over worship through alms and charitable deeds. Therefore, one
prostration on ground will carry more value than all that the world would
offer. Contrarily, the scenario at mirza’s time was one of greed, avidity and
voluptuousness, so much so that vices, in all hues and colours, worsened in
mirza’s own Jamaat in those days and he lived through to see this horrendous
spectacle.
MY
LAST WORD
Because,
you, my brother-in-humanity, have asked me to avoid incurring Allah’s
displeasure and that of the Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) and have warned me, I reciprocate the
same tidings to you and through you to your Organisation and finally to your
mirza nasir ahmed (the qadiyani Khalifa at the time of this writing) coolly
to think over mirza ghulam ahmed’s stance, in the light of the pronouncements
of Allah and His Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam) If you find that your mirza ghulam ahmed truly fits into
being called Masih, go ahead and accept him so, but if not, then reject him.
Believing in him means disbelieving in Allah and His Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe
Wassallam). Don’t do injustice to your self. Now that fifteenth century is soon
to come[4] in, we
should wait for the arrival of a new revivalist () by rejecting the claim of mirza saheb and
confirming the pronouncements of our holy Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe Wassallam)
because mirza ghulam ahmed himself said:
“If
I manage to accomplish in support of Islam that work which the promised Masih
and the promised Mahdi should do, then I am truthful and if nothing is done and
I am dead then let all be witness that I am a liar.”
“Therefore,
if I fail in the manifestation of this essential intent notwithstanding
millions of tokens coming forth from me, then I am a liar!”
(Mirza’s letter to Qazi Nazar
Husain in Badr of19th July, 1906).
The
last word of the last line of your grand-sire in this exquisite piece of his
writing is my answer to your letter. I couldn’t have written more specifically.
Here it is right from the horse’s mouth.
Remember,
mirza’s long windy predictions, his revelation claims ‘from the blue’, his
poetic loquacity are hallucinations that descended upon this sick man, alas!
Beware, your press conferences, media coverages and periodical meets, etc., are
trash. These are rotten commodities that would not sell in the market of truth
and rightfulness. Don’t believe in mirza’s circumlocutions, concoctions,
circumventions and ‘millions of tokens’ which prove mirza a straight liar. Call
him a liar as he himself wants you to call him in his above quotation. He does
not meet the standard set forth by the holy Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihe
Wassallam) so he is not the
‘Promised Masih’, nor is it justified to call him ‘Promised Masih’.
In
the end, I invite you to believe in the holy saying of the Prophet (Sallallaho
Alaihe Wassallam) and leave
mirza’s brain-formations. Messiahship is his exclusive brain-child. Allah shall
grant you great recompense on this act of yours but if you turn away, remember,
no sooner the pangs of death start than the truth will unravel on you.
With all my prayers.
Muhammad
Yusuf Ludhianvi
[1] Syedna Isa (as) had not married in his first
life and had no wife or children. Therefore the holy Prophet said that when he
would come the second time then he will marry as well as have children.
[2] Mirza himself goes out hunting swine
but ridicules what has been said in Hadith that hazrat Masih (Peace be upon
him) would kill the swine. To wit: in Seerat ul Mahdi, mirza’s son bashir ahmed
relates as follows :
“Mian Imam Din Sikhwani told me that hazrat promised Masih used to say that his opponents said that after Masih’s arrival, people would go to his house to meet him but his household would inform them that Masih had gone into the woods to kill swine. Hearing that they would be surprised and would say what sort of Masih was that who went out for pig hunting instead of affording guidance to the people. He (Mirza) would then say that arrival of such a man could only please the cobblers, sweepers and vagrants who normally did that work; otherwise, how Muslims could be happy over that, asked Mirza. And then he would laugh heartily till his eyes started watering.” (Seerat ul Mahdi by mirza bashir ahmed, Vol.3, p.291-292).
[3] Christian Missionaries have formed a
Salvation Army which apparently means an ‘army’ that will facilitate
‘salvation’ of mankind. In common parlance it is known as Mukti Fauj. Mukti
means salvation. The members of this ‘Army’ wear standard uniforms. Muslim
countries who are unmindful of the ramifications of this ‘Army’, have given it
liberty to spread ‘irtidad’ (converting Muslims to Christianity, i.e.,
heathenism).
[4] This letter was written twelve years
ago around the middle of the year 1399 A.H. Now thirteen years of even
fifteenth century have elapsed. By virtue of the fourteenth century hawing come
to a close the claim of mirza ghulam ahmed has proved totally false.