Did Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS) draw the Caricature of Dowie?
Introduction
Some anti-Ahmadis, such as Nuzhat Haneef and Adnan Rashid, allege that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (AS) had a bad character because he was uncivil when mocking the Christians.
But the mockery must remain within bounds of civility and also must be fair.
They show this picture as “Proof”
The claim is, look, how Mirza Ghulam Ahmad drew up this picture of Dowie, meanwhile his own picture is there.
Refutation
First of all, if we go to the original edition, we see how bogus this claim really is
Original Edition has a Drawing of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad AS
The claims that these images are a caricature of Dowie is extremely laughable at best.. The original edition of the same book quoted by Adnan) also has a sketch of Masih Mau’ud ASWill anti-Ahmadis claim he drew a caricature of himself?
*Note: The page numbers are different because Ruhani Khazain compilation came after, and in the lifetime of Promised Messiah AS there was no such compilation called “Ruhani Khazain”, where multiple books can be in a singular volume
Why the need of sketches?
Photocopiers as we have today were not available and did not come into existence until the 1960’s onwards. Reproducing images was difficult and tedious – sketches, drawings etc were common : https://www.npr.org/2013/10/23/239241106/happy-birthday-copy-machine-happy-birthday-copy-machine
An Actual Caricature of Dowie
Definition of Caricature
A caricature is a painting, or more usually drawing, of a person or thing in which the features and form have been distorted and exaggerated in order to mock or satirise the subject.
Here is one historical caricature of Dowie:
Sketches were taken from Newspapers
Promised Messiah AS himself has denoted in his books that he has taken images from newspapers and published them (He didn’t draw them).
اور وہ یہ ہے جس کو ہم نے عیسائیوں کی شائع کردہ تصویروں سے لیا ہے۔
…and which was taken from the pictures published by the Christians.’
Each sketch in the book of the Promised Messiah AS was from the newspapers:
Example 1:
Example 2:
Some more images of Dowie:
Sanaullah Amritsari’s caricature of Jesus!
In fact it is @MrAdnanRashid and @Farid_0v ‘s scholar, Ahle Hadith
Sanaullah Amritsari who made a caricature of ISA AS
Above the image is the words of Jesus from the Bible “Eli Eli Lama Sabacthani – O God why hast thou forsaken me
Conclusion
According to the absurd conclusion of the Anti-Ahmadis, Promised Messiah AS drew a caricature of Dowie but also of himself. Clearly, these ignorants do not even know what the meaning of the word caricature is. Sketches of an images which are accurate can not be deemed as a caricature as by definition a caricature has exaggerated features.
Promised Messiah AS didn’t draw these pictures; rather these were sketched by an artist/scribe based on newspaper photos.