See Wikipedia WikiProject Indian cities for details Infobox Indian Jurisdiction native name Qadian type city latd 31.82 longd 75.39 locator position right state name Punjab district Gurdaspur district Gurdaspur leader title leader name altitude 250 population as of 2001 population total 20827 population ... website footnotes Qadian Punjabi language Punjabi , Nastaliq Lang hi , IPA ... of Punjab, India Punjab , India . Qadian is perhaps best known as the birthplace of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , the founder of the Ahmadiyya Ahmadiyya Movement . History File Qadian group photo.jpg thumb left Members of the Ahmadiyya Movement who spoke in 47 different languages in Qadian. Qadian was established ... in abundance in Qadian . Later, it was named just Qadi and eventually, it became known as Qadian. In 1834, during the rule of Maharaja Ranjit Singh , the region consisting of Qadian and five other ... and unknown village, Qadian emerged as a centre of religious learning in 1889, when Mirza Ghulam Ahmad established the Ahmadiyya Ahmadiyya Movement . Qadian remained the administrative headquarter ... Qadian is located at Coord 31.82 N 75.39 E . It has an average elevation of 250 metre s 820 ... Muslim Community who believe that the Mahdi rose from this city. ref name Flickr Qadian lies east of Damascus cite web url http www.flickr.com photos engrmhk 3283814417 title Qadian in India ... ref Qadian had a population of 20,827. Males constitute 54 of the population and females 46 . Qadian ... literacy is 70 . In Qadian, 10 of the population is under 6 years of age. Before the partition of India , the town of Qadian had a majority Muslim population because of the many religious materials belonging to the Islamic faith. Since 1947, Qadian s population is mostly Sikh based with some ... Cities and towns in Gurdaspur district ar bn de Qadian bpy id Qadian it Qadian nl Qadian sq Qadian vi Qadian ... more details
Infobox religious building image caption building name Mubarak Mosque location Qadian IND geo coord 31 49 4 N 75 23 31 E region IN PB type landmark display inline,title religious affiliation I website architect architecture type architecture style year completed construction cost capacity dome quantity minaret quantity 1 minaret height 105 feet The Mubarak Mosque lang pa , lang ur Nastaliq in Qadian was opened in 1882 1883 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad . It is the first mosque of the Ahmadiyya Ahmadiyya movement . Later the White Minaret was added. External links http www.alislam.org gallery mosques Photo in the alislam.org mosque gallery panoramio.com http www.panoramio.com photo 5287057 Mubarak Mosque , http www.panoramio.com photo 18255423 Minaret of Promised Messiah mosque stub Ahmadiyya stub Category Ahmadiyya Muslim Community mosques Category Mosques in India Category Punjab India de Mubarak Moschee Qadian no Mubarak mosk en Qadian ... more details
Image Wei es Minarett, Qadian Minarat ul Massih .jpg thumb The White Minaret of Qadian Image Minarat ul masih.gif right The White Minaret of Qadian The White Minaret Urdu Minarat ul Masih, English language English Minaret of the Mesiah is a tower and monument standing beside the Mubarak Mosque Qadian Mubarak Mosque in Qadian , India . The foundation stone for the minaret was laid by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad on March 13, 1903. Due to a lack of funds, construction subsequently stopped. Work continued under Mirza Basheer ud Din Mahmood Ahmad on November 27, 1914, reaching completion in 1916. The minaret has three stages, 92 steps, and a total height of about 105 feet. ref http www.alislam.org library minara.html Minara tul Masih ref The Minarat ul Masih is classified as a historical monument. Clarify date May 2010 Inception On 28 May 1900, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claimed to have received the revelation Quotation Step forth that your time has Arrived and the feet of the people of Muhammad have been firmly planted on a high tower. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Tadhkirah, pg. 444 Ghulam Ahmad then solicited donations for the building of the minaret to commemorate the following hadith by the Islamic prophet Muhammad regarding the second coming of Jesus Quotation Allah would send Christ, son of Mary, and he will descend with the white minaret, east of Damascus, wearing two garments lightly dyed with saffron and placing his hands on the wings of two Angels. Sahih Muslim Book 41, Hadith 7015 ref http www.usc.edu dept MSA fundamentals hadithsunnah muslim 041.smt.html 041.7015 Sahih Muslim Book 41 , Hadith 7015 ref An associated advertisement argued that construction of the minaret would fulfill the prophecy Quotation Our village of Qadian and this our mosque near which a Minaret will be constructed, is situated ... in time. External links http www2.alislam.org gallery qadian aam Photos of the White Minaret http www.flickr.com photos engrmhk 2830300868 in set 72157607122730709 Minaret of Promised Messiah Qadian Photo ... more details
The name Mubarak Mosque English Mosque of the blessed may refer to Mubarak Mosque Cham in Chau Giang Cham people Cham in Vietnam Mubarak Mosque Qadian Mubarak Mosque Rabwah Masjid Mubarik in Chenab Nagar former Rabwah Mubarak Mosque Saint Prix , Masdjid Moubarak in France Mobarak Mosque The Hague Qudam Mubarak Mosque 14. Century in Chittagong See also Mubarak disambiguation Mubarak disambig Category Mosques de Mubarak Moschee ... more details
Qadiani is a term, with pejorative connotations, used by Sunnis who make up the majority of Muslims worldwide to refer to the minority Ahmadiyya , primarily in Pakistan. ref Antonio R. Gualtieri. Conscience and coercion Ahmadi Muslims and orthodoxy in Pakistan . Guernica Editions, 1989. ISBN 0920717411, 9780920717417. http books.google.com books?id iCwHaOabz7YC&pg PA14&dq Qadiani derogatory&hl en&ei 9x TI7NJoGclgeu Z3DCA&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 10&sqi 2&ved 0CEoQ6AEwCQ v onepage&q Qadiani 20derogatory&f false pg 14 ref It is also sometimes used to distinguish between the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam Lahori Lahore based and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community , Qadian based branches of the Ahmadiyya , primarily by the Lahoris and other Muslims. While the Lahori continue to be based in Lahore, the Qadiani branch headquarters moved to Lahore in 1947, to Chenab Nagar formerly Rabwah in 1951 and the United Kingdom in 1984. The term itself is a reference to the town of Qadian , the hometown of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , whom the Ahmadiyya held to be the promised Messiah and Mahdi . See also Qadiani Problem , an anti Ahmadiyya book References reflist Category Ahmadiyya Category Ethnic and religious slurs Ahmadiyya stub ... more details
Infobox Indian politician Satnam Singh name Partap Singh Bajwa image imagesize alt birth date Birth date and age 1957 1 29 mf y birth place Qadian , Gurdaspur , Punjab India Punjab , India residence Qadian , Punjab India Punjab , India death date death place office Member of Parliament constituency Gurdaspur Lok Sabha constituency Gurdaspur salary 1 million per year term predecessor successor party United Progressive Alliance UPA Indian National Congress INC religion Sikhism spouse Charanjit Kaur Bajwa 1982 present children 1 son website http partapbajwa.net Partap Singh Bajwa footnotes date March 4 year 2009 source http 164.100.47.132 LssNew Members Biography.aspx?mpsno 4427 Partap Singh Bajwa is a member of the Lok Sabha . In 2009, he was elected to represent the Gurdaspur area over three termer Vinod Khanna , with a margin of 8,342 votes. ref name ET Partap Singh Bajwa had already sat as a Member of the Legislative Assembly India Member of the Legislative Assembly for Punjab India Punjab . ref name ET cite web last first authorlink coauthors title Navjot Sidhu wins, Vinod Khanna loses in Punjab work publisher The Economic Times date 16 May 2009 url http economictimes.indiatimes.com News PoliticsNation Navjot Sidhu wins Vinod Khanna loses in Punjab articleshow 4540576.cms format doi accessdate 28 May 2009 ref He is the son of slain Akali leader Satnam Singh Bajwa. He has served as a cabinet minister under S. Beant Singh and Captain Amarinder Singh . References reflist External links http www.punjabnewsline.com content view 16362 38 http partapbajwa.net Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Bajwa, Partap Singh ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Indian politician DATE OF BIRTH 29th January 1957 PLACE OF BIRTH Qadian DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Chowdhury, Renuka Category 15th Lok Sabha members Category Living people Category 1957 births INC politician stub ... more details
To date, there are two cemeteries dedicated as Bahisti Maqbara. The first is located in Qadian , India and the second, in Rabwah , Pakistan . Qadian On May 26th, 1908, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad died and was taken by train to Batala . From there, he was carried to Qadian where he was eventually buried in Bahisti Maqbara. Thousands of members of the community arrived in Qadian for funeral prayers while prominent ... more details
Ahmadiyya Commentary on the Holy Quran Surah Al Fatiha is a book about the commentary of Surah Al Fatiha by compiling all the written works, speeches and lectures held by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian by Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan . Content It defines the major four attributes Rabb Rabb Lord of Creation , Rahman Rahman Gracious , Rahim Rahim Merciful and Master of Day of Judgement Malike youm id Deen Master of Day of Judgement that are the source of all the other infinite attributes of Allah . It further elaborates about the prophecy , that the Muslim will be behaving at the Ahmadiyya views of Jesus second coming of Jesus , the same way as Jesus himself was treated when he pronounced that he is the Messiah . DEFAULTSORT Commentary On The Holy Quran Surah Al Fateha Category Works by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad book stub Ahmadiyya stub Ahmadiyya topics state collapsed ... more details
Orphan date January 2011 Al Fazl Urdu has been the most important regular publication of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community . Founded in 1913 in Qadian , the newspaper was initially published weekly, then three times a week and then daily as of 1935. Until 1947 it was published from Qadian and then from Lahore up to 1954. Since then it is published from Rabwah . The newspaper has been publishing the sermons and sayings of all the Khalifatul Masih Caliphs for nearly a century. Within the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the newspaper serves as a vehicle for the moral upbringing of the members, preaching of Islam and the preservation of history of the Movement. ref cite web url http www.alislam.org library history ahmadiyya 79.html title Al Fazl newspaper accessdate 2011 01 12 publisher alislam.org ref In Pakistan, the Al Fazl was subject to the Pakistani law enforcemet which suspended the publication of the newspaper for several months in 1984. In the United Kingdom , Al Fazl started its International service, starting its publication on 7 January 1994 published by the Raqeem press. It is also available online. ref cite web url http www.alislam.org library history ahmadiyya 106.html title Al Fazl International accessdate 2011 01 12 publisher alislam.org ref References reflist 2 External links http www.alislam.org alfazl Al Fazl Online Category Ahmadiyya periodicals Category Newspapers published in Pakistan Category Newspapers published in England Category Religious studies journals Ahmadiyya stub de Al Fazl Ahmadiyya topics state collapsed ... more details
year Talim ul Islam College remained open Qadian. On August 14th, 1947, Partition created two sovereign ... to Pakistan, resulting in the permanent closure of the facility in Qadian. After a short time ... more details
Ahmadiyya aaiil Saeed Ahmad Khan in Urdu 1900 1996, Emir 1981 1996 was an adherent, and later third Emir , of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement , religious movement which evolved as a sect of Islam . Early life Ahmad was born in the Hazara, Pakistan Hazara area of the North West Frontier Province of British India now Pakistan . His father, Maulana Muhammad Yahya, and uncle, Maulana Muhammad Yaqub, were already members of the Ahmadiyya Movement. At the age of six, he included his name on a postcard from his village to take the bai at Oath of Allegiance with Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian . He was the last person belonging to the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement to die who had taken bai at at Mirza Ghulam Ahmad s own hand, at the age of eight years. He went with his father in December 1907 to Qadian and stayed there for some three months in Mirza Ghulam Ahmad s company. Therefore he bolonged to the non Muslims so called Ahmadi s or Qadyani s. The Qadyani were declared as Non Muslim in Early 70 s by Pakistan Assembly Education He went again in 1912, to study in the Ahmadiyya school in Qadian, known as the Taleem ul Islam High School, and the following year he obtained admission. In 1914, when the Maulana Hakim Noor ud Din Khalifatul Masih I. died, a split in the Ahmadiyya Movement took place, and Ahmad returned home to continue his education in the local city of Abbottabad . He then studied at King Edward s Medical College, Lahore , where he obtained a Medical degree in 1925. He was the first Muslim at the College to receive a Medal for his studies. In Lahore he attended Maulana Muhammad Ali s lectures on the Qur an and became his follower. He became the first president of the Shabban ul Ahmadiyya Lahore Ahmadiyya Young Men s Association . He was Hafiz Qur an Hafiz of the Qur an and competent in Classical Arabic . In 1947 he performed the Hajj Pilgrimage to Makka . He gave medical treatment to some fellow pilgrims, and came to the notice of the King of Saudi Arabia. Th ... more details
were one of the main attractions for visitors to Qadian . He also wrote rebuttals to Christian and Arya ... Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, who would later claim to be the Promised Messiah and Mahdi . Noor ud Din .... ref Al Hakam April 22, 1908 ref cquote As I arrived in a nearby place of Qadian, I got excited and was also ... whose Bay ah would be accepted first... Al Hakam, April 22, 1908 cqote During his stay in Qadian ... and disciple and Noor Deen devoted himself as a student to Ahmad. He eventually migrated to Qadian ... various teams of scholars from Qadian to preach the Ahmadiyya message, to deliver lectures on Islam ... of books. Soon after he became Khalifa, he set up a public library at Qadian, he donated many books ... this group eventually left Qadian and made their headquarters in Lahore setting up their own association ... March 13, 1914 PLACE OF DEATH Qadian , British India DEFAULTSORT Noor ud Din Category Khalifatul ... more details
in Lahore . He heard about Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian when Mirza claimed to be the Promised Messiah ... could not go himself so he sent his colleague and friend Maulvi Abd ur Rahman to Qadian, which is near ... allegiance to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian and joining Ahmadi Movement, bringing with him some books written by Mirza and his Ahmadi Movement s publications from Qadian for him to read. He became Ahmadi after reading this book. In 1902, Sahibzada Abdul Latif himself visited Qadian near Gurdaspur after he took permission from Amir Habibullah Khan, for Haj to Mecca but Instead, he went to Qadian on his ... more details
Gurdaspur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 13 Lok Sabha parliamentary constituencies in Punjab India Punjab state in northern India . Assembly segments Presently, Gurdaspur Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following nine Vidhan Sabha legislative assembly segments ref cite web url http www.ceopunjab.nic.in English ElectoralRolls ACPCROERO PCACLIST.html title List of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies publisher Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab website ref Sujanpur Bhoa Pathankot Gurdaspur Dina Nagar Qadian Batala Fatehgarh Churian Dera Baba Nanak. Members of Parliament 1952 Sardar Teja Singh Akarpuri , Indian National Congress 1957 Diwan Chand Sharma , Indian National Congress 1962 Diwan Chand Sharma , Indian National Congress 1967 Prabodh Chandra , Indian National Congress 1971 Prabodh Chandra , Indian National Congress 1977 Yagya Datt Sharma , Janata Party 1980 Sukhbuns Kaur , Indian National Congress 1984 Sukhbuns Kaur , Indian National Congress 1989 Sukhbuns Kaur , Indian National Congress 1991 Sukhbuns Kaur , Indian National Congress 1996 Sukhbuns Kaur , Indian National Congress 1998 Vinod Khanna , Bharatiya Janata Party 1999 Vinod Khanna , Bharatiya Janata Party 2004 Vinod Khanna , Bharatiya Janata Party 2009 Partap Singh Bajwa , Indian National Congress Election results http www.indian elections.com partyprofiles results See also Gurdaspur district List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha Notes reflist Lok Sabha constituencies of Punjab coord missing Punjab India Category Lok Sabha constituencies in Punjab Category Gurdaspur district mr ... more details
BLP unsourced date June 2010 Infobox person name Shivendra Mahal image caption Shivendra Mahal puic Image ActorShivendraMahal.jpg log 2007 October 26 birthdate birth place Punjab India Punjab , India yearsactive 1988 present spouse children notable role Shivendra Mahal is a Punjwood star, anchor and movie director. He began his career with serials like his dual role portrayel of Parshurama and Shiva and mega epic Mahabharata 1988 . He has done many serials in Hindi as well as in his motherlanguage Punjabi language Punjabi . He has directed a film Panchhtawa in 1996. He acted in more than 30 Punjabi & Hindi films. His famous Punjwood films include Baaghi Soormey 1993 , Putt Sardaran De, Vidroh, Main Maa Punjab Dee National Award winner film Directed by Balwant Dullat etc. Filmography Baghi Soormey 1993 .... Sucha Putt Sardaran De 1993 Deson Pardes 1998 Main Maa Punjab Dee 1998 Written and Directed by Balwant Dullat Ishq Nachave Gali Gali 2001 Directed by Balwant Dullat Vidroh 2006 Rustam e Hind 2006 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Mahal, Shivendra ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH Punjab India Punjab , India DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Mahal, Shivendra Category Punjwood film actors Category Living people He is born in Qadian in in punjab. ... more details
Ahmadiyya Malfoozat or Malfuzat translated as the dialogues, discourses or spoken words is a 5 or 10 volume corpus of the sayings and utterances of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam , who claimed that he had been appointed by God as the Promised Messiah and Mahdi . These sayings were taken down in writing by his disciples. The volumes cover a period of nearly two decades of discourses, speeches, question and answer sessions, sermons and casual sayings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad starting from 1891 until his death in 1908. To date only a small portion of the volume set has been translated into the English language. ref name treasures cite book title An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam publisher Islam International Publications pages xi xii isbn 978 1 84880 050 2 url http www.alislam.org library books Hidden Treasures of Islam.pdf ref Volumes When Malfoozat was first published in Rabwah , a 10 volume set was produced. However newer editions have been compressed into 5 volume sets. The table below shows the time period of the sayings and discourses of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and when they were first published ref name treasures class wikitable sortable align center width 70px Volume align left width 120px First published align left width 250px Period I August 1960 1891 to 1899 II 1960 1900 to 1901 III 1961 November 1901 to October 14 1902 IV July 1962 October 1902 to January 16 1903 V October 1963 January 17 to May 30 1903 VI 1963 June 1 1903 to April 1904 VII November 1964 May 2 1904 to August 1905 VIII June 1969 September 1 1905 to May 30 1906 IX June 1906 to October 1907 X October 1907 to May 1908 References Reflist External links Malfoozat examples can be found on the Ahmadiyya s Community Official website http www.alislam.org library malfooz.html http www.alislam.org library Category Works by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Ahmadiyya stub Ahmadiyya topics state collapsed ... more details
, Extraordinary, Part I, September 21, 1974 ref Early life Mirza Nasir Ahmad was born in Qadian , India ..., Qadian , graduated with honors in July 1929. After graduation, he went through his post secondary ... date July 1982 publisher Muslim Herald ref In November 1938, he returned to the town of his birth, Qadian ... in Qadian, then after partition of India partition , in Rabwah , Pakistan . During the Mirza Basheer ... DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1909 PLACE OF BIRTH Qadian , British India DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1982 ... more details
Qadian Dhariwal Mukerian Jhangi Baba Bakhat Jamal Population Total population in Gurdaspur is 2104011 ... in 1947 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian , founder of the Ahmadiyya Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam Hakeem ... more details
Refimprove date July 2007 Infobox person name Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad image image size caption birth date birth date 1913 02 18 birth place Qadian , India death date death date and age 2002 07 23 1913 02 18 death place Washington DC , USA occupation salary networth spouse children website Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad , commonly known as MM Ahmad February 28, 1913, in Qadian , India July 23, 2002 was a Pakistan i civil servant and a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Education and early life He was educated first at Government College, Lahore , and later at the University of London and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom . He joined the Indian Civil Service the ICS in 1939. Following Partition of India Partition in 1947, he joined the CSP Civil Service of Pakistan , this was to mark the beginning of an illustrious and distinguished career within the Pakistan Civil Service. Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community . Career MM Ahmad was first posted in Lahore , the capital of the part of Punjab Pakistan Punjab that was attached to Pakistan. Among the positions MM held in Lahore was that of secretary of finance. Later, he went to Islamabad , Pakistan s capital, where he served in a number of senior positions, including secretary of commerce, secretary of finance, and deputy chairman of the Planning Commission. At this juncture in his career, MM was arguably the most powerful civil servant in Pakistan, with supervisory authority over all three ministries. During M M Ahmad s service, Pakistan underwent rapid industrialization and growth. This received acknowledgment both within Pakistan and amongst the international development community. It should be noted M M success was attributable to his ability to assemble a highly capable team of economists, planners and engineers such as the late Dr Mahbub ul Haq, Sartaj Aziz and many others. Within Pakistan, M M Ahmad s contribution to the process of economic development was recognised by Preside ... more details
File Punjabdoabs1.jpg thumb right 300px A map of the Punjab region ca. 1947 showing the different doabs . Majha Punjabi language Punjabi , Hindi M jha is a region of the Punjab region Punjab comprising the modern districts of Amritsar District Amritsar , Gurdaspur District Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran Sahib Tarn Taran in the India n State of Punjab India Punjab and the districts of Narowal District Narowal , Lahore District Lahore and Kasur District Kasur in the Pakistan Pakistani Province of Punjab Pakistan Punjab . The term previously applied to Panjabis living north of the Sutlej . ref name KakshiPathak2007 cite book last1 Kakshi first1 S.R. last2 Pathak first2 Rashmi last3 Pathak first3 S.R.Bakshi R. title Punjab Through the Ages url http books.google.com books?id K FRF3a5y2EC accessdate 12 June 2010 date 2007 01 01 publisher Sarup & Sons isbn 9788176257381 ref Historically, Majha comprised the older settled parts of the Bari Doab in particular Sheikhupura District Sheikhupura and the Rechna Doab in particular, Gujranwala District Gujranwala , the newer settled parts belonging to the canal colonies . ref Doab means a region between two rivers flowing in the same direction for this English has a little used counterpart, interfluve. ref Major towns in the region include Amritsar , Batala , Majitha , Sri Hargobindpur , Dera Baba Nanak , Qadian , Pathankot , Rawalpindi , Gurdaspur , Narowal , Lahore , Kasur , Sheikhupura , Nankana Sahib Gujranwala , Sialkot , Wazirabad , Gujrat , and Tarn Taran Sahib . The people of Majha are known as Majhis or Majhhis . File Dialects Of Punjabi.jpg thumb right 450px Dialects of Punjabi The largest part of Majha called the Bari Doab . It lies between two of the five great rivers of the Punjab the Ravi River Ravi and the Beas River Beas Ba For Beas, and ri for River Ravi . As such, Majha lies in the heart of the ancient Punjab region . No wonder then, that one meaning of Majha is the central plains or the central country . ... more details
. Early life Mirza Tahir Ahmed was born in Qadian , India on December 18, 1928. He obtained his early schooling in Qadian and joined the Government College, Lahore in 1944, a few months after the death ... the 100th Annual Jalsa Salana gathering of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Qadian , India . This was the first ... Qadian , British India DATE OF DEATH 19 April 2003 PLACE OF DEATH London , United Kingdom DEFAULTSORT ... more details
multiple issues refimprove April 2007 context August 2007 Ahmadis Urdu Ahmadiyya , are followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad . They comprise two subsects, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community sometimes called the Qadiani community by mainstream Muslims, after Qadian , India , though this term is considered offensive by some ref cite web last first authorlink coauthors title Introduction of Ahmadiyyat work publisher Ahmadiyya Muslim Association date url http www.alislam.org books ahmadiyyat WelcomeBook2ndEd.pdf format doi accessdate 2009 05 25 ref and the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat i Islam . Ahmadi Muslims beliefs are considered Heresy heretical and outside of Islam by most mainstream Muslims, though an exception may be made by some in the case of the smaller Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement. According to Ahmadi beliefs, the Ahmadiyyat is the revival of the Islam. With so much in common, there still remains the fundamental difference which sets Ahmadiyya Muslim Community apart from other Muslims. The difference on the issue of revival of Islam. All other differences emanate from this main issue. Christian Views Christian churches during the life of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad were actively engaged in debates, prayer duels and written arguments with the Ahmadiyya. Ahmadiyya consider Christians nations to be the propehcised Dajjal and Gog and Magog , thus making the relationship very hostile. The issue of death of Jesus has caused a lot of pressure on the Church throughout the 20th century and the controversy goes on in different forms. Abbott Freeland , observed in his book, Islam and Pakistan ref http opac.ide.go.jp cgi bin exec cgi ibibdet.cgi?CGILANG english&U CHARSET utf 8&ID BB20120198 Islam and Pakistan by Freeland, Abbot. p. 160 161 ref , Cquote The primary significance of the Ahmadiyya Movement lay in its missionary emphasis. Every Muslim believed that Islam was the only religion free from error. The Ahmadiyas made it part of their principles to show the er ... more details
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