Mirza Ghulam Ahmad had never mentioned anything about earthquakes until the first week of April 1905. Even the great Assam earthquake of 1897 (magnitude 8.1) , when the Mirza Sahib was at the peak of his polemic, did not garner much from his attention span as the tremors had not reached any of his followers or reached the Punjab. The Assam earthquake was in June of that year, while the Mirza Sahib was busy demeaning Hussain Kami, ambassador of Sultan Abdul Hameed II, the Ottoman Khalifa, and busy with Queen Victoria’s jubilee celebrations later that month, and hinting that he, the Mirza Sahib, should be the successor to the Ottoman Caliphate.
Fast forward to 1905, three years before his death. On the 4th of April, 1905, an earthquake struck Kangra and Dharamsala, and whose tremors were felt in Qadian as well. However, the Mirza Sahib was oblivious to it, and it was not until TWO days later, when the news became public, that he started having revelations about this great missed opportunity for prophecy. And prophecy he did, over and over, until he was blue in the face, about many more earthquakes in the days to come but Nature just smiled and nothing happened in his lifetime.
Much before that, he had claimed ownership to the plague in a very similar way, relating an old dream about dark-green plants to the plague, but after-the-fact as most self-declared prophets do. And he foretold of many many other plagues, and much worse than the one that had just gone by, none of which came to pass. Alas, his Yalash had not told him about the progress in science, hygiene and antiseptics and antibiotics, and the plague became a thing of the past. (Sometimes, I am amazed at how cruel Nature was to the Mirza: even when there was a 50/50 chance for some prophecy of his, Nature betrayed the poor fellow.)
Thus, dear friends and family, your cult of misery was born: from the misery of others. The way you gesticulate and are over-joyed by death and destruction is beyond human comprehension. It is simply sick — and sickening to rational human beings.
Earthquakes happen in areas that lie on geological fault lines, and scientists can now measure the stress levels and predict relatively accurately about the probability of an event. On the other hand, engineers have designed buildings in a way that damage to life and limb is minimal: two of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded – the great Chilean earthquakes of 1960 and 2010 — were not as devastating to human life as the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755. A comparison of Haiti and Chile in 2010 tell the story of good engineering and following of building codes. The difference between Quetta and Kashmir also tell the same story.
So great are the developments in seismology that recently seismologists have downgraded the Mirza’s 1905 Kangra earthquake. The same Mirza Sahib prophesied that his followers will continue to excel in knowledge. So, why can’t a bunch of Ahmadis get together and show unusual or inexplicable seismic activity at that time, or since? Oh, wait a minute — that might prove that it was all hot air? Is that the reason why you do not specialize in epidemiology or seismology, so that you can continue to shudder and smile at the ‘prophecy’?
Earthquakes and the plague are a sign of your cult and give you great satisfaction (I will not use the word ‘pleasure’ or its connotations). Populations have increased and earthquakes will continue to happen in Indonesia, Japan, around the Himalayas and in Chile, among many other areas. Do you not see how absurd and inhuman that is? Do you want to relegate your offspring to this superstitious darkness whereas the world is becoming a better place day by day? When will you awaken?
(More on the Ahmadiyya Quixotic forays into ‘knowledge’, literature and science . . . in part 3)
From the 2004 edition of Tadhkirah, before we started quoting from it live on video after which they decided to modify it for 2009, we have:
While I was engaged upon the compilation of this book, I received the revelation (Urdu): Yalesh – is the name of God Himself. This is a new word which is not found in this form in the Quran or hadith or in any dictionary. It has been disclosed to me that it connotes ya la shareek (O Thou without an associate).
(Tohfa Golarviyya, p. 69, footnote)
(n.b. Br. Rationalist has of course picked up on the Tadhkirah changes in his piece here.)
There is the usual obtuse explanation for this manufactured rubbish, but it’s so mind-numbingly stupid that I will spare you its reproduction. No Mirzai can dispute that Mirza has claimed a revelation in which he understands that Yalesh is the name of God himself.
But who is Yalash? (They corrected the spelling in 2009 after br. Fuad corrected it for them of course…) You’d expect an entity that plays jokes on the recipient of revelation to have a wicked sense of humour. Just how wicked is about to be revealed.
Please refer to p737 of Tadhkirah, 2004 edition, for this revelation:
God says He would come secretly like a thief, that is to say, no astronomer or claimant of revelation or dreamer of dreams will be given any intimation of His coming except that much which He has revealed to His Promised Messiah or that which He might add to it. After these signs, the hearts of many will be drawn to God and away from the love of the world, and, the intervening obstructions being removed, they would be given to drink of the fountain of true Islam
(Tajalleyat-iIlahiyya pp. 2-3)
It is interesting that he gives Allah (SWT) who is free from all deviation or error, the attribute of a criminal, who under the strictest forms of hudood, would suffer hand-amputation. Can this be a positive attribute? Surely, any Muslim, indeed, any believe in the Allah (SWT) who revealed His make-up in Surat-al-Ikhlas would flinch at reading such blasphemous garbage.
Please turn to page 809 and let’s now consider what Mirza Ghulam Ahmad himself thinks a thief is like:
Last night I saw in my dream that a robe which had a good deal of gold work on it had been given to me as a present from God, a thief ran away with it but someone ran after him and caught him and took away the robe from him. Thereafter the robe changed into a book of the name of Tafsir Kabeer and I was given to understand that the thief had run away with it in order to destroy the Tafsir.
The interpretation is that by thief is meant Satan, who desires to remove my writings from the notice of people, but that he will not succeed. The Tafsir (commentary) being shown in the form of a robe means, that it will be a source of honor and ornament for me. Allah knows best
(Al-Hakam Vol. X, No. 31, September 10, 1906, p. 1)
Clear, isn’t it? Mirza says that God comes like a thief, and around six months later, perhaps unwittingly, reveals that the interpretation of thief is Satan. Ergo, Mirza’s god, Yalash, is in fact, according to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad himself, Satan.
Just a quick salaam from four Muslim brothers, whose bond is Islam and a passion to invite Ahmadis to the Islam of Rasulullah (saw) and his companions (ra)
Muslims aren’t scary, in general, Muslims are wonderful people. It is only the Mullahs of Mirzology who have frightened the common Ahmadi for decades into steering clear of Muslims. Ahmadis are missing out! In fact, many young Ahmadis in the UK and the USA observe first hand just how decent Muslims are.
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