Our Ahmadi friend has written:
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya muslim movement, accepted as the Promised Messiah and Mahdi in Ahmadiyya. AHMADI MUSLIMS BELIEVE THAT THE PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE MAHDI AND THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS HAVE BEEN FULFILLED IN THE PERSON OF MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD OF QADIAN (1835–1908)
And in the following sentence he has repeated his claim:
But I have also seen PROPHECIES FULFILLED and signs of the truth of Ahmad (as).
Our Baha’i friends have produced satisfying proofs, but none is from the Islamic Traditions. Following is just a comparison on the fulfillment of some of the Islamic prophecies regarding the return of Mahdi by the Bab and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad:
(I). The Two Promised Ones of Islam are expected by Muslims to rise successively one after another, but in Ahmadiyya, "Messiah" and "Mahdi" are synonymous terms for one and the same person, namely Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
Sunni Muslims are expecting at three individuals to appear in the Time of the End, Mahdi a good man, Anti-Christ an evil man, and Jesus Christ a good man.
Sa'id ibn-i Jabir reported the following Hadith from Ibn-i Abbas, who heard it from Prophet Muhammad Who said:
"My successors after Me are God's proofs for the people of the earth. They are twelve. First one of them my brother and last of them will be my child. They asked: O Apostle of God who is your brother? He said Ali-ibn Abu Talib. They asked who is your child? He said: He is Mahdi who will fill the earth with justice, even if it is full of injustice and wretchedness. I swear to God Who made Me His Messenger even if one day is left from the age of the world, God will lengthen that day to the extent that My child Mahdi will become manifest. Then Isa [Maseeh], the Spirit of God (the Return of Christ) descends from heaven and prays behind Him).
According to Sunni sources: Allamih Jalal'ud'Din Suyooti in his book "Al Araf'ul Vardi fi Akhbaar al-Mahdi" offers a Hadith narrated by Ibn Abbas:
"The Messenger of God said: Al Mahdi is from My Household [He will arise from Muhammad's family line]. He will arise as the Vicegerent of God [Kalifa-tullah] and afterward HE WILL RELEGATE HIS RULERSHIP TO ISA BIN MARYAM (Jesus)”.
This expectation of the appearance of two Divine Manifestations affirmed in the Qur’an too, as follows:
“And the Horn will be blown, and whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth will fall dead except whom Allah wills. Then it will be blown again, and at once they will be standing, looking on.
And the earth will shine with THE LIGHT OF ITS LORD, (*) and the record [of deeds] will be placed, and the prophets and the witnesses will be brought, and it will be judged between them in truth, and they will not be wronged. (Qur’an, 39:68-69) (*). The title of Baha’u’llah which means, The Glory of God.
This prophecy fulfilled by the Bab and Baha’u’llah, while didn’t fulfil by Ahmad.
(II). The Mahdi according to Muslim Traditions will be a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad of the line of Fatima:
The Prophet said: The Mahdi will be of my family, of the descendants of Fatimah [Muhammad’s daughter]. (Sunan Abu Dawud, Book 36, Number 4271 Narrated by Umm Salamah, Ummul-Mu'minin).
Abu Dawud also reported a hadith about the Mahdi that Muhammad said: “The Mahdi will be of my stock, and will have a broad forehead, a prominent nose and a mark on his right cheek. He will fill the earth with equity and justice as it was filled with oppression and tyranny, and HE WILL RULE FOR SEVEN YEARS”.
Abu Sa`id al-Khudri said: The Messenger of Allah said: "He is one of us”.
The Messenger of Allah said: "The Mahdi is of my lineage, with a high forehead and a long, thin, curved nose. He will fill the earth with fairness and justice as it was filled with oppression and injustice, and HE WILL RULE FOR SEVEN YEARS”. (*)
Regarding the subject, Qulam Ahmad wrote himself:
"I do not claim that I am the same Mahdi who will come according to (words of Hadith) 'from the son of Fatima and from my progeny' etc." (Braheen-e-Ahmadiyya V, Roohani Khazain vol.21 p.356).
While the Bab was from the seed of Muhammad, the Prophet:
“ … He Who, both on His father's and mother's side, was of the seed of the illustrious Fatimih, and Who was a descendant of the Imam Husayn, the most eminent among the lawful successors of the Prophet of Islam….” (Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 9).
SO, THIS PROPHECY FULFILLED BY THE BAB, AND DIDN’T FULFIL BY AHMAD.
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(*) For Sunni sources see Ibn Maja, {Sunan}, p. 1367, No. 4085; at-Tirmidhi, {Sunan}, Vol. 2, p. 36; Abu Dawud, {Sunan}, Vol. 2, p. 422. For Shi'is the Mahdi is the Twelfth Imam who was, of course, a descendant of Muhammad.]
(III). The Mahdi will rule for either SEVEN, NINE, or NINETEEN years, (*) before the Day of Judgment (The Day of Resurrection) and will rid the world of evil.
THE PROPHECY DID NOT FULFIL BY AHMAD, BUT ALL THE PROPHECY WITH DETAIL FULFILLED COMPLETELY BY THE BAB as follows:
The Declaration of the Bab was on May, 1844 (Fifth of Jamadiyu'l-Avval,1260 A.H.) and the Martyrdom of the Bab was on 9 July, 1850 (28th Sha’ban, 1266 A.H.) = He martyred in the seventh year of His Declaration ; THE DIFFERENCE IS SEVEN YEARS.
The Declaration of the Bab was on May, 1844 (Fifth of Jamadiyu'l-Avval,1260 A.H.) and The intimation of His Revelation to Baha'u'llah in the Siyah-Chal of Ṭihran, was in 15th October 1852 (Muharram, 1269 A.H.) = THE DIFFERENCE IS NINE YEARS.
The Declaration of the Bab was on May, 1844 (Fifth of Jamadiyu'l-Avval,1260 A.H.) and the Open Declaration of Baha’u’llah’s Mission in Ridvan was on 21st April, 1863 (3rd Di’l-Qaidih 1279 A.H.) = THE DIFFERENCE IS NINETEEN YEARS.
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(*) For Sunni sources see at-Tirmidhi, {Sunan}, Vol. 2, p. 36; Abu Dawud, {Sunan}, Vol. 2, pp. 422-3. For Shi'i sources see, for example, al-Irbili, {Kashf al-Ghumma}, Vol. 3, pp. 257, 269; al-Nu'mani, {al-Ghayba} quoted in Majlisi, {Bihar al-Anwar} (old ed.), Vol. 13, p. 178.]
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