UNFORTUNATELY THERE ARE A LOT OF LIES AND FALSE MISREPRESENTATIONS ABOUT AHMADIYYAT AND ESPECIALLY THE PERSONALITY OF THE PROMISED MESSIAH SYEDNA HZT. AHMAD(as) I WILL THEREFORE POST SOME OBSERVATIONS AND COMMENTS MADE BY MANY OF THE RESPECTED MUSLIM LEADERS, ELDERS AND EVEN MAULANAS OF THAT TIME, WHO LIVED SAW AND EXPERIENCED FIRST HAND HAZRAT AHMAD(AS) AND HIS WORK AT THAT CRITICAL TIME, AND WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY ABOUT HIM. ALSO BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY PAGES OF THESE COMMENTS I WILL POST A FEW PER DAY, SO AS NOT TO OVERWHELM THE READER. 1. Mirza Hairat of Delhi: He was editor of the Curzon Gazette. In his obituary of Hazrat Mirza Sahib, he wrote: THE SERVICES OF THE DECEASED, WHICH HE RENDERED TO ISLAM IN CONFRONTATION WITH THE CHRISTIANS AND THE ARYA SAMAJISTS, DESERVE THE HIGHEST PRAISE. HE COMPLETELY CHANGED THE FLOW OF THE DEBATE, AND LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF A NEW LITERATURE IN INDIA. WE ADMIT, NOT BECAUSE OF OUR BEING MUSLIMS BUT BEING SEEKERS AFTER TRUTH, THAT THE TOP MOST ARYA SAMAJ LEADER OR CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY COULD NOT DARE OPEN HIS MOUTH TO CONFRONT THE LATE MIRZA SAHIB. THE INCOMPARABLE BOOKS WHICH HE WROTE IN REFUTATION OF THE ARYA SAMAJ AND CHRISTIAN CREEDS, AND THE SHATTERING REPLIES HE GAVE TO THE OPPONENTS OF ISLAM, WE HAVE NOT SEEN ANY RATIONAL REFUTATION OF THESE EXCEPT THAT THE ARYAS HAVE BEEN HURLING ABUSE AT THE FOUNDER AND THE TEACHINGS OF ISLAM IN AN UNCOUTH MANNER, WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO GIVE A SENSIBLE REPLY. ALTHOUGH THE DECEASED WAS A PUNJABI, YET HIS PEN WAS SO POWERFUL THAT TODAY IN THE WHOLE OF THE PUNJAB, EVEN IN THE WHOLE OF INDIA, THERE IS NO AUTHOR OF SUCH POWER. . . . AND IT IS TRUE THAT, ON READING SOME OF HIS WRITINGS, ONE GOES INTO A STATE OF ECSTASY. ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT RECEIVE ANY REGULAR EDUCATION IN ARABIC LANGUAGE, LITERATURE OR GRAMMAR, HE GAINED SUCH A PROFICIENCY IN ARABIC BY HIS GOD-GIVEN INTELLECT AND NATURE THAT HE COULD WRITE IT QUITE NATURALLY. . . . HIS FOLLOWERS ARE NOT ONLY COMMON AND UNLEARNED PEOPLE, BUT INCLUDE ABLE AND BRIGHT GRADUATES, VIZ., B.A., M.A., AND VERY LEARNED ULAMA. IT IS A MATTER OF NO SMALL PRIDE FOR A RELIGIOUS LEADER OF THIS DAY THAT PERSONS EDUCATED ON TRADITIONAL LINES AS WELL AS PERSONS EDUCATED ON MODERN LINES, BOTH TYPES, SHOULD BECOME HIS FOLLOWERS. SURVIVING THE HEAT OF PREDICTIONS OF HIS DEATH, OPPOSITION, AND CRITICISM, HE CLEARED HIS WAY TO REACH THE HIGHEST PINNACLE OF PROGRESS. (Curzon Gazette, Delhi, 1st June 1908) 2) Maulana Abdullah Al-Imadi: He was the permanent editor of Wakeel, and he added his own tribute a few days later as follows: ALTHOUGH MIRZA SAHIB HAD NOT RECEIVED SYSTEMATIC EDUCATION IN CURRENT KNOWLEDGE AND THEOLOGY, YET AN ASSESSMENT OF HIS LIFE SHOWS THAT HE HAD A UNIQUE NATURE NOT GRANTED TO EVERYONE: BY THE AID OF HIS OWN STUDY AND HIS UPRIGHT NATURE, HE HAD ATTAINED SUFFICIENT MASTERY OVER RELIGIOUS LITERATURE. IN ABOUT 1877, WHEN HE WAS 35 OR 36 YEARS OLD, WE FIND HIM CHARGED WITH UNUSUAL RELIGIOUS FERVOUR. HE IS LEADING THE LIFE OF A TRUE AND PIOUS MUSLIM. HIS HEART IS UNIMPRESSED BY WORLDLY ATTRACTIONS. HE IS AS HAPPY IN SOLITUDE AS IF HE WERE IN CONGENIAL COMPANY, AND WHEN IN COMPANY HE IS ENJOYING THE BLISS OF SOLITUDE. WE FIND HIM RESTLESS, AND IT APPEARS AS IF HE IS IN SEARCH OF A LOST THING, NO TRACE OF WHICH CAN BE FOUND IN THE MORTAL WORLD. ISLAM HAS SO OVERWHELMED HIM THAT HE HOLDS DEBATES WITH THE ARYAS, AND WRITES VOLUMINOUS BOOKS IN SUPPORT OF ISLAM. HIS DEBATES IN HOSHIARPUR IN 1886 WERE SO DELIGHTFUL THAT THE FEELING OF ENJOYMENT HAS STILL NOT BEEN FORGOTTEN. . . . THE STATE OF ECSTASY CREATED BY READING HIS INVALUABLE BOOKS WHICH WERE WRITTEN TO COUNTER OTHER RELIGIONS AND TO UPHOLD ISLAM, STILL HAS NOT FADED. HIS BARAHIN AHMADIYYA OVERAWED THE NON-MUSLIMS AND RAISED THE SPIRITS OF THE MUSLIMS. HE PRESENTED TO THE WORLD A CAPTIVATING PICTURE OF THE RELIGION [OF ISLAM], CLEANSED OF THE BLOTS AND DUST THAT HAD COLLECTED UPON IT AS A RESULT OF THE SUPERSTITION AND NATURAL WEAKNESSES OF THE IGNORANT. IN SHORT, THIS BOOK RAISED A LOUD ECHO IN THE WORLD, AT LEAST WITHIN INDIA, WHICH IS STILL REVERBERATING IN OUR EARS. THOUGH SOME MUSLIM RELIGIOUS LEADERS MAY NOW PASS AN ADVERSE VERDICT ON BARAHIN AHMADIYYA, . . . THE BEST TIME TO PASS JUDGMENT WAS 1880 WHEN IT WAS PUBLISHED. AT THAT TIME, HOWEVER, MUSLIMS UNANIMOUSLY DECIDED IN FAVOUR OF MIRZA SAHIB. AS TO HIS CHARACTER, THERE IS NOT THE SLIGHTEST TRACE OF A BLOT ON IT. HE LIVED A VIRTUOUS LIFE, THE LIFE OF A RIGHTEOUS, GOD-FEARING PERSON. TO CONCLUDE, THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF HIS LIFE, IN TERMS OF HIGH MORALS AND COMMENDABLE HABITS, AND IN TERMS OF SERVICES TO THE RELIGION, RAISED HIM TO AN ENVIABLE POSITION OF DISTINCTION AND HONOUR AMONG THE MUSLIMS OF INDIA. (Wakeel, Amritsar, 30 May 1908 More to come...
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