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A
Sworn Testimony of 70 Leading Lahori Ahmadis Concerning this
Book ['Ek Ghalati ka
Izala']:
Taken from:
The Ahmadiyya Case [with modifications by the
Webmaster]
In around 1915, shortly after the
Split, the assertion was first made by the Qadianis that, in
the pamphlet ‘Correction of an error’ (Ayk
Ghalati Ka Izala) published in November 1901, Hazrat
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad had announced that he claimed to be a
prophet and that his previous denials of such a claim were
now abrogated. To refute this assertion of a change in
Hazrat Mirza’s position in November 1901, seventy
of his prominent followers who had taken the pledge into the
Movement before that date, issued the following sworn public
statement:
“We, the undersigned,
declare on oath that when Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of
Qadian, the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement, announced
in 1891, that the prophet Jesus was dead according to the
Holy Quran, and that the ‘son of Mary’ whose
advent among the Muslims was spoken of in Hadith was he
[Hazrat Mirza] himself, he did not lay claim to
prophethood. However, the Maulavis misled the public, and
issued a fatwa of kufr against him by
alleging that he claimed prophethood. After this, the
Promised Messiah declared time after time in plain words,
as his writings show, that to ascribe to him a claim of
prophethood was a fabrication against him, that he
considered prophethood to have come to a close with the
Holy Prophet Muhammad, and that he looked upon a claimant
to prophethood, after the Holy Prophet, as a liar and a
kafir. And that the words mursal, rasul,
and nabi which had occurred in some of his
revelations, or the word nabi which had been used
about the coming Messiah in Hadith, do not denote a
prophet in actual fact, but rather a metaphorical,
partial or zilli prophet who is known as a
muhaddas. After the Khatam an-nabiyyin the
Holy Prophet Muhammad, no prophet can come, neither new
nor old.
“We also declare on oath that
we entered into the pledge of the Promised Messiah before
November 1901, and that the statements of Mirza Mahmud
Ahmad, the head of the Qadian section, that though in the
beginning Hazrat Mirza Sahib did not claim prophethood,
but that he changed his claim in November 1901, and laid
claim to prophethood on that date, and that his previous
writings of ten or eleven years denying prophethood are
abrogated — all this is entirely wrong and
absolutely opposed to facts. We do swear by Allah that
the idea never even entered our minds that the Promised
Messiah made a change in his claim in 1901 or that his
previous writings, which are full of denials of a claim
to prophethood, were ever abrogated; nor, to our
knowledge, did we ever hear such words from the mouth of
even a single person until Mirza Mahmud Ahmad made these
statements [in 1914/1915].”
Signed by: 1. (Maulvi)
Sayyid Muhammad Ahsan Amrohi; 2. (Maulvi) Muhammad
Abdullah Khan Patialvi; 3. (Maulvi) Muhammad Mubarak Ali
(Sialkoti); 4. (Maulvi) Ghulam Hasan, sub-registrar,
Peshawar; 5. (Maulvi Hakim) Mirza Khuda Bakhsh, author of
Asal Musaffa; 6. (Maulvi) Muhammad Ali (Lahore);
7. (Maulvi) Muhammad Yahya (Debgaran); 8. (Maulvi)
Muhammad Yaqub (Debgaran); 9. (Shaikh) Rahmatullah
(Merchant, Lahore); 10. Dr. Mirza Yaqub Beg (Lahore); 11.
Shaikh Ziaullah (former headmaster, Taleem-ul-Islam
School, Qadian); 12. (Maulvi) Muhammad Hasan Quraishi,
Qiladar; 13. (Baba) Hidayatullah (poet Punjabi, Lahore);
14. (Mian) Nabi Bakhsh (Government Pensioner, Lahore);
15. Dr. Sayyid Tufail Husain (Lahore); 16. Mirza
Jamal-ud-din, copyist (Lahore); 17. Shaikh Din Muhammad
(Lahore); 18. (Master) Faqirullah (Lahore); 19. Dr. Nabi
Bakhsh (Bhati Gate, Lahore); 20. Hafiz Fazl Ahmad
(presently Badomalhi); 21. Hafiz Ghulam Rasul (Trader,
Wazirabad); 22. Chaudhry Ghulam Hasan (former Station
Master, resident of Lowairiwala); 23. Shaikh Ghulam
Husain Siddiqi Ahmadi (Sialkot); 24. Shaikh Muhammad Jan
(Merchant, Wazirabad); 25. Shaikh Abdur Rahman
(Wazirabad); 26. (Maulvi) Aziz Bakhsh, B.A. (Dera Ghazi
Khan); 27. Wali Muhammad, court reader (Dera Ghazi Khan);
28. (Master) Ghulam Muhammad, B.A. (Headmaster,
Rawalpindi); 29. Hakim Sardar Khan (brother of the late
Hakim Shah Nawaz, Rawalpindi); 30. (Seth) Ahmad-ud-din
(former Municipal Commissioner, Jehlum); 31. Shaikh
Qamar-ud-din (optician, Jehlum); 32. Mistri Abdus Sattar
(Jhelum); 33. Shaikh Ghulam Muhayy-ud-din (appeal
recorder, Jehlum); 34. (Maulvi) Muhammad Ibrahim (Imam
mosque, Jehlum); 35. Dr. Hayat Muhammad (Tooth-maker,
Rawalpindi); 36. Babu Allah Bakhsh (Officers' Clerk,
Jhelum); 37. Babu Abdul Haq (Clerk, Canal Department,
Jehlum); 38. (Mistri) Abdul Sattar (Jehlum); 39. (Mistri)
Yaqub Ali (Jammu); 40. Master Muhammad Ramzan (Jammu);
41. Malik Sher Muhammad Khan (B.A., Personal Assistant,
Jammu); 42. Mufti Fazl Ahmad (Jammu); 43. (Mistri)
Shahab-ud-din (Jammu); 44. Muhammad Shah (Jammu); 45.
Nawab Khan (Jammu); 46. Sayyid Masud Shah (Teacher,
Jammu); 47. (Mistri) Nizam-ud-din (Jammu); 48. Sayyid
Amir Ali Shah (Pensioner sub-Inspector); 49. Shaikh
Hidayatullah (Peshawar); 50. Ramzan Ali (Peshawar); 51.
Mian Muhammad Makki (Peshawar); 52. Sayyid Lal Shah Barq
(Peshawar); 53. Shaikh Fazl Karim (Peshawar); 54.
(Munshi) Nawab Khan (sub-Inspector Police, Gujranwala);
55. Shaikh Maula Bakhsh (Sialkot); 56. Hakim Shams-ud-din
(Sialkot); 57. Mian Boora (Sialkot); 58. Allah Din
(Sialkot); 59. Shaikh Muhammad Jan (Trader, Sialkot
Cantonment); 60. Babu Ata Muhammad (Engineer, Sialkot);
61. Mirza Hakim Beg (Sialkot); 62. Mistri Muhammad Akbar
(Contractor, Sialkot); 63. Mistri Abdullah (Sialkot); 64.
Muhammad-ud-din (Sialkot); 65. Haji Fazl-ud-din
(Sialkot); 66. Sayyid Amjad Ali (Court Inspector); 67.
(Dr.) Hasan Ali; 68. Muhammad Sarfraz Khan (numberdar,
Badomalhi); 69. Shaikh Muhammad Naseeb (former Head
Clerk, Qadian); 70. Abdul Haq (Rawalpindi)
No person was ever able to counter
this statement by testifying on oath that as an Ahmadi he
came to know in November 1901 that Hazrat Mirza, by
publishing ‘Ayk Ghalati Ka Izala’, was retracting
or in some way modifying his previous statements, of the
ten-year period 1891 to 1901, in which he had clearly denied
claiming prophethood and, as against this denial, claimed to
be a ‘muhaddas’.
Opening Line of
Pamphlet:
‘Correction of an Error’
opens with the following line:
“Some people among my
followers who are not well-acquainted with my claim and
its arguments, not having had the occasion to study the
books carefully, nor having stayed in my company for a
sufficient length of time to complete their knowledge, in
some instances in response to an objection of the
opponents give a reply which is against
facts.”
Therefore it is the error of some
followers that Hazrat Mirza is correcting, and not any
error on his own part. Moreover, the said followers would
not have committed these errors about his claims if they had
studied his previous books and statements to gain
knowledge of these matters. Therefore, Hazrat Mirza has not
only confirmed here the validity of his previous writings
and statements, but has instructed that these should be
studied to get accurate information about his
claims.
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