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Mirza Mahmud Ahmad’s magazine
calls Hazrat Mirza as one of the Mujaddids of Islam
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The Qadiani Head Mirza Mahmud Ahmad was the founder and editor of
the monthly magazine Tashhiz-ul-azhan. There are articles
in issues of this magazine very close to the time of the death of
the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad,
in which it is clearly stated that prophethood has come to an end
with the Holy Prophet Muhammad, and after him mujaddids will
arise among Muslims in every century to support the cause of Islam,
one such mujaddid being Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
Shown below is the front cover of the issue of Tashhiz-ul-azhan
dated April 1908, containing two such articles.
In the first article, entitled Haqqaniyyat-i Islam
(The Truth of Islam), by Mirza Mahmud Ahmad himself, he writes:
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“Therefore, for this reason, God the Most High has established
the institution of mujaddids in Islam. Because of this,
people who are in a weak and fallen condition become strong
and powerful, and having been purified of all their flaws
they gain the strength to do good works. It is only Islam
that can be proud of this, while other religions are deprived
of it. Only this religion claims that its followers in every
age can receive revelation from God, and it is in this religion
that at the end or the beginning of every century a man arises
who rescues the world from sin and evils.”
(pages 126–127)
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In the second article, entitled Id-ul-Adha by Hafiz Abdur
Rahim, it is written:
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“I believe that all the prophets that came brought the
same principles as are the principles of Islam. As proof of
this, we put forward the following testimony, that every prophet
has taught the Unity of God, which is the root of Islam. Then
just as the Christians created Trinity, other religions too
became corrupted. Therefore God the Most High sent prophets
again and again. At last, God brought this institution of
prophethood to an end with the Holy Prophet Muhammad. He was
granted a religion perfect and true in every way, combining
together all the virtues that had previously been given separately
to various prophets, or those which were required in the future.
Accordingly, Allah the Most High says in the Holy Quran: ‘This
day have I perfected for you your religion and completed My
favour upon you and chosen for you Islam as a religion’.
Then after him, to prevent any damage befalling this religion
as had happened with other religions, God the Most High appoints
from Himself a mujaddid at the head of every century
who revives the religion.
By the grace of Allah, there is such a mujaddid today,
about whom there are various prophecies in the scriptures
of all the religions of the world, and all the religions foretell
this as the time of that mujaddid.”
(pages 147–148)
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In an article in the following month’s issue (May 1908), we
find it written:
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“Regarding the Holy Quran, Allah the Most High said
at the outset: ‘We have revealed it and We shall safeguard
it’. Now we see that safeguarding is both as regards
the meaning and as regards the text. Safeguarding of the text
took place in this way, that whenever any verse was revealed
the companions immediately used to memorise it and proclaim
it among friend and foe, and the Holy Prophet himself used
to get it written down and save it with him. Safeguarding
of the meaning took place in this way that God the Most High
sends a mujaddid or imam at the head of every
century who teaches people the Quran according to the needs
of the time and refutes the objections and attacks made against
Islam …
Allah has at this time appointed a man as mujaddid,
and because in this age the Anti-Christ and the Cross had
become very dominant, so this mujaddid has been given
the name Messiah on account of being the healer to treat this
illness.”
(pages 172–173)
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Click here to see another article
from Tashhiz-ul-Azhan by Mirza Mahmud Ahmad in the issue
for April 1910, in which he argues strongly that no prophet can
come after the Holy Prophet Muhammad, and that any claimant after
him is a liar who is destroyed by God.
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