Prophecies Fulfilled
Truth About the Split
The truth however was that Maulawi Muhammad Ali departed from Qadian, and with his departure was fulfilled the prophecy contained in the revelations of the Promised Messiah (as) "There are many humble ones who will be made eminent, and many eminent ones who will be made humble. So danger lies ahead!" (Brahin-e-Ahmaddiyya, part V, p. 89.)
Maulawi Muhammad Ali and his friends departed from Qadian, and in their departure was fulfilled for a second time the revelation of the Promised Messiah (as) i.e. Men of Yazid-like disposition would be expelled from Qadian. The prophecy was fulfilled first by the fact that the original dwellers of Qadian refused to accept the Promised Messiah (as), and it was fulfilled for a second time by the fact that people who were envious and jealous of members of the Promised Messiah’s (as) family, and had thereby proved themselves like Yazid, now came, by a Divine design, to be expelled from Qadian.
Maulawi Muhammad Ali departed from Qadian, and in his departure was fulfilled the divine promise revealed to the Promised Messiah (as) i.e. "I am with you and your family". For, notwithstanding his high position in the Jama‘at and his hold on all its affairs, God made him bite the dust in his contest with a weak and helpless person like me.
Maulawi Muhammad Ali left Qadian, and by His powerful signs, did God prove that the Movement did not depend for its success upon any individual. God Himself was its Protector and that, if He wished, He could make even him, who was thought to be unworthy and a mere stripling, the instrument of His Will.
In short, Maulawi Muhammad Ali departed from Qadian, and in his departure God furnished another powerful evidence of His Greatness and Glory. He showed Himself again with all His living signs, and manifested His effulgence in the fullness of its glory. He proclaimed to the world the fact that Ahmadiyyat was a plant of His own sowing, which no one could destroy, that Khilafat was a tree of His own rearing which no one could uproot, that this humble and helpless one had been brought through His own grace and favour to occupy the seat of Khilafat, and now there was no one who could stand against him, and that Qadian was a city beloved by Him which no one had the power to ruin. For Qadian is Mecca—the Mecca of the vicegerent and counter-type of Muhammad (sa) . It is a town of the poor but under the Protection of God Almighty.
And now we close with the prayer, 'All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.'
Al-Badr—Newspaper founded in 1902 and published from Qadian, Edited mostly by Mufti Muhammad Sadiq Sahib. Now defunct.
Al-Fadl—Founded in the lifetime of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I (ra) , by Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II (ra) , who was also its first editor. Now a daily and the leading organ of the Ahmadiyya Community.
Al-Hakam—Newspaper founded in 1898 and published from Qadian by Shaikh Ya‘qub Ali Irfani, Contains important historical material on the Ahmadiyya Movement.
Al-Wasiyyat (Lit. The will)—One of the last works by the Promised Messiah (as), containing prophecies about his death, an exhortation to piety, and plans for the future organisation of the Ahmadiyya Community, and for the special graveyard (Maqbarah Bahishti founded by him.)
Al-Nubuwwat fil Islam—(Lit. Prophethood in Islam) a work by Maulawi Muhammad Ali designed to prove that no Prophet of any kind is to appear after the Holy Prophet (sa) of Islam, and further that the Promised Messiah (as) did not claim to be a Prophet.
Brahin-e-Ahmadiyya—The earliest large work by the Promised Messiah (as) on the philosophy of Islam, published with an offer of a reward of Rs.10,000 for its refutation.
Eik Ghalati Ka Izala—(Lit. An Error Removed), announcement in November 1901 by the Promised Messiah (as) to remove the erroneous impressions that he had no claims to being a Prophet of any kind.
Haqiqatun Nubuwwat—Lit. The Philosophy of Prophethood) A work by Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II (ra) , setting forth the Promised Messiah’s (as) claim to prophethood (published March 1915).
Izharul Haq Nos. 1 and 2.—Anonymous tracts published in the lifetime of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I (ra) in support of the views later held by the Lahore section of Ahmadis.
Izhar-e-Haqiqat—Reply to Izharul Haq No. 2 by the Anjuman Ansarullah, Qadian.
Khilafat-e-Ahmadiyya—Reply to Izharul Haq No. 1 by the Anjuman Ansarullah, Qadian.
Nabiyyullah Ka Zahur—A booklet on the claims of the Promised Messiah (as) by one Muhammad Zahiruddin Arupi.
Paigham-e-Sulh—Newspaper founded in 1913, and published from Lahore, by a party of Ahmadis who seceded in 1914 from the main body of the Ahmadiyya Movement and came to be known variously as the Lahore Party, the Lahore Group, or the Lahore Section.
The Review of Religions—Monthly journal founded by the Promised Messiah (as) in 1902, edited from the time of its inception up to the time of the 1914 split by Maulawi Muhammad Ali. Published in English and Urdu.
Tashhidhul Adhhan—Monthly journal founded in March 1906 and largely edited by Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II (ra) , Later amalgamated with the Urdu edition of the Review of Religions.