JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN
By Imran N. Hosein
PART ONE
Chapter 9
MIRZA GHULAM
AHMAD: A FALSE MESSIAH
Narrated
Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, “By Him in Whose Hands is my soul, surely (Jesus,)
the son of Mary will soon descend amongst you and will judge mankind justly (as
a Just Ruler); he will break the cross and kill the pigs and there will be no
Jizyah. Money will be in abundance so that nobody will accept it, and a single
prostration to Allah (in prayer) will be better than the whole world and
whatever is in it.” Abu Huraira added,
“If you wish, you can recite (this verse of the Holy Book):
‘And
there is none of the people of the Scriptures (Jews and Christians) but must
believe in him (i.e., Jesus) before his death. And on the Day of Judgment He
will be a witness against them.”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:159)
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was a Punjabi Muslim who lived in the
town of Qadian in India at the beginning of the twentieth century. He died just
about the time of the commencement of the First World War. He did not live to
see the transfer of power from one Ruling State in the world (Britain)
to another (USA) that occurred during the First World War. Nor did he live to
see the return of the Jews to the Holy Land and the establishment of the State
of Israel in 1948. He also has not lived to see what we are about to witness,
i.e., the transfer of power from USA to
another Ruling State – the Jewish State of Israel. This book
anticipates that such will occur within the next five to ten years or even
sooner.
Mirza startled the world when he made a number of claims
pertaining to the prophecy of the return of the Messiah. He established the
Ahmadiyyah Movement in India and it promptly embarked upon an extraordinary
effort in the western world to preach and to convert European people to
Ahmadiyyah. But the Movement also took pains to devote special attention to
African-American Muslims of the Nation of Islam who were led by Elijah
Muhammad. As a consequence Mirza has succeeded in influencing African-American
Muslims, who are today led by Imam Warithuddin (Sahih Bukhari)
Muhammad [update: announced giving up his leadership post in
September 2003] or by Louis Farrakhan, in respect of the subject of the return
of the Messiah. For this reason it became necessary for us to devote a chapter
to the claims of Mirza.
As the historical process unfolds in this last stage of
history it should become increasingly clear to his followers as well as to
those who were influenced by his teachings that the following claims of Mirza
Ghulam Ahmad (of India) were quite false:
Ø He is the Imam al-Mahdi who will
be the leader of the Muslims at the time when the Messiah returns,
Ø The prophecy pertaining to the return
of the Messiah was fulfilled in him,
Ø He is a divinely appointed Prophet.
We hope that Ahmadis will respond to our invitation, which
we hereby extend, to use the Qur’an and Ahadith to explain the
above-mentioned events which have occurred after the death of Mirza and in
particular the ‘return’ of the Jewish people to the Holy Land and establishment
of the State of Israel. If they do so we are sure that they will discover a new
understanding of the subjects of Dajjal, the False Messiah, Gog and
Magog, Imam al-Mahdi and the Return of the Messiah (Jesus, the Son of Mary)
- an understanding quite different from that which they received from Mirza
Ghulam Ahmad.
This book was written to help Ahmadis as they seek that
Qur’anic explanation for the strangest event ever to have occurred in the
religious history of mankind, i.e., the return of the Jews to the Holy Land. It
is not possible for a member of the Ahmadiyyah Movement to understand and
accept the basic arguments and conclusions of this book without at the same
time rejecting the claims of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad to have been the Messiah who
would one day return, the Imam al-Mahdi, and a divinely appointed Prophet.
And Allah guides to His light
whomsoever Allah wishes to guide!
Jews were not the only ones who were deceived by Dajjal.
Many pious Muslims, whose demonstration of a sincere pursuit of faith inspired
awe, were similarly deceived. In all sincerity they joined the Ahmadiyyah
Movement and were convinced that they had embraced the only authentic
expression of Islam in the world. Instead they entered into a trap set
for them by Dajjal. How were they deceived?
The Ahmadiyyah Movement believes that the prophecy
concerning the return of the Messiah was fulfilled in the person of Mirza
Ghulam Ahmad. There are a number of reasons why this claim is false. Firstly
the Ahadith pertaining to the ‘return of the Messiah’ made it abundantly
clear that the Messiah who would return would be the ‘son of Mary’. But Mirza
Ghulam Ahmad is the son of a Punjabi woman. Secondly if Mirza was indeed
the fulfillment of the prophecy pertaining to the return of the Messiah then
he, Mirza, had to kill Dajjal, the False Messiah, during his own
lifetime since this is what the Messiah is supposed to do. This is what the
Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) had to say on the subject. We
quote the entire Hadith for the benefit of readers:
“Narrated al-Nawwas ibn Sam’an:
Allah’s Apostle mentioned of Dajjal one day in
the morning. He sometimes described him as insignificant and sometimes
described (his turmoil) as very significant (and we felt) as if he were in the
cluster of the date-palm trees. When we went to him (to the Holy Prophet) in
the evening and he read (the signs of fear) on our faces,
he said: What is the matter with you?
We said: Allah’s Apostle you mentioned the
Dajjal this morning (sometimes describing him) as insignificant and sometimes
very important, until we began to think he was present in some (nearby) part of
the cluster of the date-palm trees.
So he said: I harbour fear in regard to you in
so many other things besides the Dajjal. If he comes forth while I am among
you, I shall contend with him on your behalf, but if he comes forth while I am
not among you, a man must contend on his own behalf and Allah will take care of
every Muslim on my behalf (and safeguard him against his evil). He (the Dajjal)
will be a young man with twisted, cropped hair, and a blind eye. I compare him
with Abd al-Uzza ibn Qatan. He who among you will survive to see him should
recite over him the opening verses of Surah al-Kahf. He will appear on the way between
Syria and Iraq and will spread mischief right and left. O servant of Allah!
Adhere (to the path of Truth).
We said: Allah’s Apostle, how long will he
stay on Earth?
He said: For forty days, one day like a year,
one day like a month, one day like a week, and the rest of the days will be
like your days.
We said: Allah’s Apostle will one day’s prayer
suffice for the prayers of the day equal to one year?
Thereupon he said: No, but you must make an
estimate of the time (and then observe prayer).
We said: Allah’s Apostle how quickly will he
walk upon the earth?
Thereupon he said: Like cloud driven by the
wind.
Ø He will come to the people and invite them (to
a wrong religion); they will affirm their faith in him and respond to him. He
will then give a command to the sky: there will be rainfall upon the Earth and
it will grow crops. Then in the evening, their pasturing animals will come to
them with their humps very high, their udders full of milk and their flanks
distended.
Ø He will then come to another people and invite
them. But they will reject him so he will go away from them; they will have a
drought and nothing will be left with them in the form of wealth.
Ø He will then walk through the desert and say
to it: Bring forth your treasures. The treasures will come out and gather
before him like a swarm of bees. (This
refers to the discovery of oil and so many other treasures of the earth).
Ø He will then call someone in the flush of
youth, strike him with the sword, cut him into two pieces and (make these
pieces lie at the distance that is generally between the archer and his target.
He will then call (that young man) and he will come forward laughing with his
face gleaming (with happiness).
Ø It will be at this very time that Allah will
send Christ, son of Mary. He will descend at the white minaret on the eastern
side of Damascus, wearing two garments lightly dyed with saffron and placing
his hands on the wings of two Angels. When he lowers his head, there will fall
beads of perspiration from his head, and when he raises it up, beads like
pearls will scatter from it. Every non-believer who smells the odour of his
body will die and his breath will reach as far as he is able to see. He will
then search for him (Dajjal) until he catches hold of him at the gate of
Ludd and kills him.
Ø Then a people whom Allah had protected will
come to Jesus, son of Mary, and he will wipe their faces and inform them of
their ranks in Paradise. It will be under such conditions that Allah will
reveal to Jesus these words: I have brought forth from among My servants
such people against whom none will be able to fight; you take these people
safely to Tur, and then Allah
will send Gog and Magog and they will swarm down from every slope.
Ø The first of them will pass the lake of
Tiberias and drink out of it. And when the last of them passes, he will say: There was once water there. Jesus and
his companions will then be besieged here (at Tur, and they will be so hard
pressed) that the head of the ox will be dearer to them than one hundred
dinars.
Ø Allah’s Apostle Jesus, and his companions,
will supplicate Allah, Who will send to them insects (which will attack their
necks) and in the morning they would perish as one single person. Allah’s
Apostle Jesus, and his companions, then come down to Earth and they will not
find on Earth as much space as a single span that is not filled with
putrefaction and stench.
Ø Allah’s Apostle Jesus, and his companions,
will then beseech Allah who will send birds whose necks would be like those of
Bactrian camels and they will carry them away and throw them where Allah wills.
Then Allah will send rain which no house of mud-bricks or (tent of) camelhair
will keep out and it will wash the Earth until it resembles a mirror.
Ø Then the Earth will be told to bring forth its
fruit and restore its blessing and, as a result thereof, there will grow (such
a big) pomegranate that a group of people will be able to eat it and seek
shelter under its skin, a dairy cow will give so much milk that a whole party
will be able to drink it. The milking camel will give such (a large quantity
of) milk that the whole tribe will be able to drink from it, and the
milking-sheep will give so much milk that the whole family will be able to
drink from it.
Ø At that time Allah will send a pleasant wind
that will soothe (people) even under their armpits. He will take the life of
every Muslim and only the wicked will survive who will commit adultery like
asses and the Last Hour would come to them.”
(Sahih Muslim)
The Hadith is clear. Jesus, the true Messiah, would
kill Dajjal the False Messiah:
“He
will then search for him (Dajjal) until he catches hold of him at the gate of
Ludd and kills him.” If Mirza Ghulam Ahmad fulfilled the prophecy in the Ahadith
pertaining to the return of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam) then he would
also have had to kill Dajjal. There could not, therefore, be any
possibility of Dajjal, the False Messiah, continuing his mission after
the death of Mirza. Yet Mirza died soon after the birth of the Zionist
Movement, and did not live to see Dajjal’s great triumph, namely the creation
of the ‘Impostor’ State of Israel and the return of the Jews to the Holy Land. In
the entire religious history of mankind there has never been an event that
could compare in strangeness with this achievement of Dajjal, the False
Messiah.
Thirdly, there is
a mountain of evidence (discernible by those who see with two eyes) that we
are still living in the age of Dajjal, the False Messiah. Such, for
example, are the following:
Ø The philosophical Shirk in modern-day materialism
which has fulfilled the prophesy of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa
sallam) who declared of Dajjal that he would attempt to deceive
mankind into worshipping him rather than Allah, Most High. The very heart of
the attack of materialism emerged from the island of Britain. The Hadith
of Tamim Dari in Sahih Muslim clearly indicated that when Dajjal
was released he would be in an island and it would be from that island that he
would launch his attack on mankind and on the Jews. We have demonstrated that
the island could not have been any other than Britain.
Ø The philosophical Shirk of the modern western
epistemology that denies the validity of ‘internal intuitive spiritual’
knowledge and which is clearly evident in the ominous declaration of the
Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) that Dajjal, the False
Messiah, sees with ‘one’ eye while “your Lord is not one eyed”. This one-eyed
epistemology was embraced by modern western civilization and then transmitted
to the rest of mankind through modern western education. Again it was Britain
that led the epistemological attack.
Ø The universal political
Shirk of the modern secular State which has also fulfilled the
prophecy of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) who declared that Dajjal,
the False Messiah, would target mankind to get them to worship him instead of
Allah, Most High. Modern western civilization produced the modern secular State
that declared that sovereignty resided with the State, that the authority of
the State was supreme, and that the law of the State was the highest law. Allah could declare something to be Haram
but the State could make it Halal, i.e., legalize it. This
was clear Shirk but, amazingly, even Muslims have difficulty in
understanding it and recognizing it. The entire world has now embraced
the secular State and the secular United Nations Organization that leads the
system. But this had not as yet occurred when Mirza Ghulam Ahmad died.
Ø The scientific and technological revolution that has brought
to the world air and space travel, telephones and other modern
telecommunications, etc., has deceptively mixed that which is manifestly
beneficial with that which is dangerously harmful. That unfinished revolution
still has strange and wondrous feats to be performed. That scientific and
technological revolution is connected to Dajjal and this is discernible
in Ahadith which declare, for example, that Dajjal
would ride on an ass which would travel as fast as the clouds and which
would have its ears stretched out wide. This refers to the modern airplane and
fighter aircraft.
Ø Allah Most High created mankind and then announced to the
angels that He was going to place on earth one who would function as His khalifah (i.e., would act on His
behalf in a capacity subordinate to Him). The Islamic Khilafah State
(Caliphate) did precisely that. It recognized Allah’s Sovereignty and Supreme
Authority, and recognized Allah’s Law as the highest Law. It was destroyed by
western civilization after the death of Mirza and it was replaced by the modern
secular State founded on Shirk. The new secular State embraced Turkey at
the very seat of the Khilafah. This was the work of Dajjal. Yet
it took place after the death of Mirza.
Ø The Riba
that has embraced the economy around the world in fulfillment of the prophecy
of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) who declared that the age of
Dajjal, the False Messiah, would be the age of universal Riba.
The Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) also prophesied that the day
would come when you would not be able to find a single person in all of mankind
who would not be consuming Riba, and that if any one were to claim that
he was not consuming Riba, “verily the dust of Riba would be upon
him.” That prophecy has now been fulfilled. Riba now controls the entire
world economy. But it had not yet done so when Mirza Ghulam Ahmad died.
Ø The modern feminist
revolution and its struggle for women’s liberation that has fulfilled the
prophecy of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) in which he spoke
of women as ‘the last people who would come out to Dajjal, the False Messiah’:
“The last (people) to
come out to Dajjal will be women, so much so that a man would have to return to
his mother, daughter, sister and aunt and tie them fast lest they should go out
to him (Dajjal).”
(Kanz al-‘Ummal. Vol. 7, Hadith No. 2116)
“Most of those who follow
him (Dajjal) will be Jews and women.”
(Kanz al-‘Ummal. Vol. 7,
Hadith No. 2114)
British women led the struggle. It was
only in the twentieth century, after the death of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, that the
feminist revolution successfully penetrated the Muslim world.
Ø The environmental pollution that is bringing about the
climatic change that the Prophet (‘alaihi al-Salam) prophesied would
occur at the time of Dajjal, the False Messiah. This is now taking place
in the world, yet Mirza is long dead.
Ø The awesome deception of the modern age in which ‘appearance’ and ‘reality’ are so completely different from each other, the road to
heaven having the appearance of the road to hell and vice versa is evidence
that Dajjal is still at work! The Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa
sallam) said that Dajjal would do precisely that!
Ø The ‘liberation’ of the Holy Land from non-Jewish (i.e.,
Muslim) rule, the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, and the establishment of
the State of Israel, were all accomplished with active involvement of a
Christian ‘island’ named Britain which is located about one month’s journey by
sea from the Arabian peninsular (exactly as mentioned in the Hadith of Tamim al-Dari). Also, they were all
accomplished after the death of Mirza.
Ø It is likely that the State of Israel would soon displace
USA as the Ruling State in
the world and would then lay claim to the return of the Golden Age of Solomon (‘alaihi
al-Salam). This has not as yet taken place. But when it does it would
represent further progress in Dajjal’s mission of impersonating the
Messiah. All of this would soon take place yet Mirza died almost a century ago.
All of the above are the work of Dajjal, the False
Messiah, who is still very much alive, yet Mirza is already dead. In
fact all of the above emerged fully in the world and assumed a universal
character long after the death of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. If Mirza killed Dajjal,
the False Messiah, then how do the followers of Mirza explain all of the above?
Perhaps the discerning followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad may now recognize the
reality of the world today, and so recognize that the Truth is different from
the claims of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Amin!
to be continued....
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