Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Arguments in Support of the Divine Origin of the Holy Quran & the Prophethood of the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw by Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi as, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Published under the auspices of Hadrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Imam and Head of the Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Fifth Successor to the Promised Messiah as, may Allah the Almighty help him with His powerful support Islam International Publications LTD. Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya—Part III Arguments in Support of the Divine Origin of the Holy Quran and the Prophethood of the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw Written by Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi, peace be on him, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community First published in Urdu in Qadian, India, 1882 First English translation published in the UK, 2014 Reprinted in the UK, 2018 Reprinted in India, 2018 © Islam International Publications Ltd. Printed in India at: Fazl-e-Umar Printing Press Qadian - 143516 (Punjab) For further information please visit www.alislam.org. ISBN 978-1-84880-100-4 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 Contents About the Author .................................................................................. vii Publisher’s Note ...................................................................................... ix Foreword .............................................................................................. xiii Introduction ........................................................................................ xvii The Plight of Muslims ....................................................................................1 An Important Request ...................................................................................5 An Important Entreaty to Islamic Organizations ....................................7 Chapter One ..................................................................................................15 Footnote Number Eleven ............................................................................37 Sub-Footnote Number One .................................................................... 195 Sub-Footnote Number Two .................................................................... 235 An Apology and an Announcement ...................................................... 255 Glossary ...............................................................................................259 Index of the Verses of the Holy Quran .................................................265 Index of Ahadith .................................................................................269 Index of the Revelations of the Promised Messiah as ............................271 Index of Topics .....................................................................................275 Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian The Promised Messiah & Mahdi as About the Author Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as was born in 1835 in Qadian, India. From his early life, he dedicated himself to prayer, and the study of the Holy Quran and other scriptures. He was deeply pained to observe the plight of Islam, which was being attacked from all directions. In order to defend Islam and present its teachings in their pristine purity, he wrote more than ninety books, thousands of letters, and participated in many religious debates. He argued that Islam is a living faith, which can lead man to establish communion with God to achieve moral and spiritual perfection. Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as started experiencing divine dreams, visions, and revelations at a young age. In 1889, under divine command, he started accepting initiation into the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The divine revelations continued to increase and he was commanded by God to announce that God had appointed him to be the same Reformer of the latter days as prophesied by various religions under different titles. He claimed to be the same Promised Messiah and Mahdi whose advent had been prophesied by the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is now established in more than two hundred countries. After his demise in 1908, the institution ofkhil afat (successorship) was established to succeed him, in fulfilment of the prophecies made in the Holy Quran and by the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw. Hadrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad aba is the Fifth Successor to the Promised Messiah as and the present head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Publisher’s Note Please note that, in the translation that follows, words given in paren- theses ( ) are the words of the Promised Messiah as. If any explanatory words or phrases are added by the translators for the purpose of clar- ification, they are put in square brackets [ ]. Footnotes given by the publisher are marked ‘[Publisher]’. The translators’ primary objective was to adhere to the author’s original text as strictly as possible. Contemporary nineteenth century classical lexicons were utilized to precisely define Urdu, Arabic and Persian words and phrases. To preserve the author’s writing style, and particularly his points of emphasis, we have retained his original under- lined and bold text styling as well as exclamation marks, including end punctuation for rhetorical questions. However, to facilitate readability for an English speaking audience, punctuation and pauses were inserted as needed, and longer paragraphs were broken into smaller ones. References to the Holy Quran contain the name of the surah [i.e., chapter] followed by a chapter:verse citation, e.g., Surah al-Jumu‘ah, 62:4, and counts Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim [‘In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful’] as the first verse in every chapter it appears. The following abbreviations have been used: saw sallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, meaning ‘peace and blessings of Allah be upon him’, is written after the name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw. x BarĀhĪn-e-aHmadiyya — Part three as ‘alaihis-salam, meaning ‘peace be on him’, is written after the names of Prophets other than the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw. ra radiyallahu ‘anhu/‘anha/‘anhum, meaning ‘Allah be pleased with him/her/them’, is written after the names of the Companions of the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw or of the Promised Messiah as. rta rahmatullah ‘alaihi/‘alaiha/‘alaihim, meaning ‘Allah shower His mercy upon him/her/them’, is written after the names of those deceased pious Muslims who are not Companions of the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw or of the Promised Messiah as. aba ayyadahullahu Ta‘ala binasrihil-‘Aziz, meaning ‘may Allah the Almighty help him with His powerful support’, is written after the name of the present head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hadrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul- Masih V aba. Readers are urged to recite the full salutations when reading the book. In general, we have adopted the following system established by the Royal Asiatic Society for our transliteration. at the beginning of a word, pronounced as a, i, u preceded by a ا very slight aspiration, like h in the English word honour. .th – pronounced like th in the English word thing ث .h – a guttural aspirate, stronger than h ح .kh – pronounced like the Scottish ch in loch خ .dh – pronounced like the English th in that ذ .s – strongly articulated s ص .d – similar to the English th in this ض .t – strongly articulated palatal t ط .z – strongly articulated z ظ Publisher’s Note xi a strong guttural, the pronunciation of which must be learnt – ‘ ع by the ear. gh – a sound similar to the French r in grasseye, and to the غ German r. It requires the muscles of the throat to be in the ‘gar- gling’ position to pronounce it. .q – a deep guttural k sound ق .a sort of catch in the voice – ’ ء Short vowels are represented by: _____ a for (like u in bud). _____ .(i for َِ (like i in bid _____ .(u for ُ (like oo in wood Long vowels by: _____ .(like a in father) آ a for or _____ ___ ٰ__ .(or ٖ (like ee in deep ِ ی i for for _____ (like in ). oo root ُ و u Other vowels by: _____ ai for (like i in site). َ_____ی .(resembling ou in sound)َ و au for The consonants not included in the above list have the same phonetic is ن value as in the principal languages of Europe. While the Arabic ,as ń . As noted above ں represented by n , we have indicated the Urdu -which is dis ع the single quotation mark ‘ is used for transliterating . ء tinct from the apostrophe ’ used for We have not transliterated some Arabic words which have become part of English language, e.g., Islam, Quran, Hadith, Mahdi, jihad, Ramadan and ummah. The Royal Asiatic Society’s rules of xii BarĀhĪn-e-aHmadiyya — Part three transliteration for names of persons, places, and other terms, are not fol- lowed throughout the book as many of the names contain non-Arabic characters and carry a local transliteration and pronunciation style. Foreword Under the guidance and auspices of Hadrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul-Masih V aba [the Fifth Successor to the Promised Messiah as], the English translation of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Parts I & II, was published in 2012. By the grace of Allah, we are now presenting the English translation of Part III. The translations of Part IV and Part V will follow, God-willing. After the Promised Messiah as published Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Parts I & II, in 1880, there were urgent requests from Muslims, as well as non-Muslims, for the remainder of the book, but the funds needed for its publication were insufficient. He, therefore, arranged to publish, as Part III, whatever could be financed with the available funds. As a consequence, the