There is a long list of enemies of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (AS) that died a miserable death after entering into Mubahala with him. One of them is Rashid Ahmad Gangohi. He is one of the founding fathers of the Deobandi sect in Islam, one of the most prominent group of ‘Sunnis’ today.

The Promised Messiah (AS) challenged 110 scholars for a Mubahala in his book, Anjam-e-Atham. The names of each of these scholars are listed Ruhani Khazain, vol. 11, pg. 69. 4th in the list is Rashid Ahmad Gangohi.

Rashid Ahmad Gangohi continued to send curse of Allah upon Ahmad (AS) and label him as Dajjal and a Liar. He was soon gotten to justice as he became blind the same year when the Mubahala challenge was done, and later died from a snake bite.

Details

Scholars of the time kept instigating Muslims against the Promised Messiah (AS) and were publishing writings that were filthy, lies, and had other obscenities. After some time, he (AS) invited all his enemies to come forward for a Mubahala (Prayer duel) in the book, Anjam-e-Atham. He claimed that if he is a liar then God should destroy him, otherwise, any of his enemies who accept the Mubahala must be punished.

کیونکہ میں نہیں چاہتا کہ میرے سبب سے تیرے بندے فتنہ اور ضلالت میں پڑیں۔ اور ایسے مفتری کا مرنا ہی بہتر ہے۔ لیکن اے خدائے علیم وخبیر اگر تو جانتا ہے کہ یہ تمام الہامات جو میرے ہاتھ میں ہیں تیرے ہی الہام ہیں۔ اور تیرے منہ کی باتیں ہیں۔ تو ان مخالفوں کو جو اس وقت حاضر ہیں ایک سال کے عرصہ تک نہایت سخت دکھ کی مار میں مبتلا کر کسی کو اندھا کر دے اور کسی کو مجذوم اورکسی کو مفلوج اور کس کو مجنون اور کسی کو مصروع اور کسی کو سانپ یا سگ دیوانہ کا شکار بنا۔ اور کسی کے مال پر آفت نازل کر اور کسی کی جان پر اور کسی کی عزت پر۔ اور جب میں یہ دعا کر چکوں تو دونوں فریق کہیں کہ آمین ۔ ایسا ہی فریق ثانی کی جماعت میں سے ہر ایک شخص جو مباہلہ کیلئے حاضر ہو جناب الہی میں یہ دعا کرے کہ اے خدائے علیم و خبیر ہم اس شخص کو جس کا نام غلام احمد ہے در حقیقت کذاب اور مفتری اور کافر جانتے ہیں ۔ پس اگر یہ شخص در حقیقت کذاب اور مفتری اور کافر اور بے دین ہے اور اس کے یہ الہام تیری طرف سے نہیں بلکہ اپنا ہی افترا ہے۔ تو اس امت مرحومہ پر یہ احسان کر کہ اس مفتری کو ایک سال کے اندر ہلاک کر دے تا لوگ اس کے فتنہ سے امن میں آجائیں۔

Because I do not want your servants to fall into temptation and confusion because of me. And it is better for such a liar to die. But O God, All-Knowing and All-Knowing, if You know that all these inspirations that are in my hands are Your inspirations and the words of Your mouth, then make those opponents who are present at this time suffer severe afflication within a period of one year. Make someone blind, or afflict with leprosy or paralysis. Or make madman…

And when I finish making this dua, both sides should say Amen. In the same way, every person from the party of the second party, who is present for the marriage, should pray to Allah that, O God, All-Knowing and All-Knowing, we know the person whose name is Ghulam Ahmad to be a liar, a liar, and an infidel. So, if this person is in fact a liar, a slanderer, a disbeliever, and an irreligious person, and this inspiration of his is not from You, but it is his own slander. Do this kidness on this ummah by taking the life of this liar within a year so that there can be peace from this fitnah.

[Anjam-e-Atham, Ruhani Khazain, vol. 11, pg 66]

He lists 58 Ulema of Islam and 52 Ulema of the Sufi Spiritual Orders (Gaddi Nasheen).

میں یہ شرط کرتا ہوں کہ میری دعا کا اثر اس صورت میں سمجھا جائے کہ جب تمام وہ لوگ جو مباہلہ کے میدان میں بالمقابل آویں ایک سال تک ان بلاؤں میں سے کسی بلا میں مبتلا ہو جائیں اگر ایک بھی باقی رہا میں اپنے تئیں کاذب سمجھوں گا اگرچہ وہ ہزار ہوں یا دو ہزار اور پھر ان ہاتھ پر تو بہ کروں گا

It is my condition that the result of my prayers can only be considered when all these people come forward for the challenge of Mubahalah and they get afflicted with the punishments [from the ones I listed].

Even if 1 is saved, I will consider myself a liar, even though they are a 1000 or 2000. Then I will repent on their hands.

[Anjam-e-Atham, Ruhani Khazain, vol. 11, pg 67]

Some people might claim that the divine punishment of 1 or 2 isn’t decisive enough as it might be a coincidence that they are going through a trial by Allah. So he cleared it up and claimed that from these 100, at least 10 should come forward so that no uncertainty can be left.

میرے مباہلہ میں یہ شرط ہے کہ اشخاص مندرجہ ذیل میں سے کم از کم دس آدمی حاضر ہوں اس سے کم نہ ہوں اور جس قدر ہوں میری خوشی اور مراد ہے۔ کیونکہ بہتوں پر عذاب الہی کا محیط ہو جانا ایک ایسا کھلا کھلا نشان ہے جو کسی پر مشتبہ نہیں رہ سکتا

It is a condition in my Mubahalah that in the listed individuals, atleast 10 men must come forward. It should NOT be less than that. If it is more than that then it will be pleasure and wish. Because the punishment of God on many is such a manifest sign that there is no suspicion left.

[Ibid]

Lastly, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS) wrote the following, which clearly convicts Ganoghi under a curse of Allah.

Witness, O earth and O heaven! God’s curse be upon the very one who, after receiving this booklet, neither presents himself for a mubahalah, nor stops denouncing and insulting me as an unbeliever, and does not part company with those who ridicule me. O true believers! Do all of you, for the sake of God, say, Amin.

[Ibid]

Not even 10 from this list of 100+ people came forward. But Gangohi kept cursing and sending Lanat of Allah upon Ahmad (AS).

Fatawah of Rashid Ahmad Gangohi

Gangohi continued cursing the Promised Messiah (as), calling him a liar and a Dajjal (God forbid):

According to ahadith, Mirza is born as a Kadhab (Liar) and Dajjal.

Mirza Qadiani is from among the Dajjals and kaddhab this answer is right…Mirza Qadiani is a misleader and—misguides others, the misguidance and deceit of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani as far as I have come to know, is free from any doubt. Without hesitation, he is completely a misleader, a corrupter, and a creator of discord and trouble.

[Baqiyat Fatawa Rashidiyyah]

Punishment from Allah

Consequently, in the same year (1896 AD) as the challenge written in Anjam e Atham, he became blind in accordance with the content of the challenge. This is mentioned in the biographies of Gangohi.

Another constraint was that since 1314 AH, vision had suddenly failed completely.

[Maulana Rashid Ahmad Gangohi Hayat aur Karnamey, pg. 174]

Then in 1905, he was bitten by a snake and died.

Hazrat Gangohi used to perform…recitations, and additional prayers in the private chamber of the khanqah. In this chamber, there might have been a snake or another venomous creature that bit him while he was performing the Fajr sunnah prayers

[Maulana Rashid Ahmad Gangohi Hayat aur Karnamey, pg. 176]

Mention by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS)

This sign is mentioned in Haqiqatul Wahi as follows:

130. [One Hundred Thirtieth] SIGN-In my book Anjām- e-Atham, I invited many opposing maulawis, by name, to a mubahalah [prayer duel], and wrote on page 66 of the book that should any one of them enter into a mubahalah with me, I would pray that some of them may become blind, some may become paralyzed, some may become insane, some may die of snakebite, some may meet an untimely death, some may be disgraced, and some may suffer financial loss. Although all the opposing Maulawi were not courageous enough to accept the challenge of a mubahalah, they continued to slander me behind my back, and persisted in their denial. Rashid Aḥmad of Gangoh, for instance, has not only invoked [The curse of Allah be upon the liars’], but has also called me ‘’Satan’ in one of his posters. Ultimately, the result of this was that of all fifty-two opposing maulawis, only twenty have survived thus far, and even they are ensnared by one calamity or another. The rest have all died. Maulawi Rashid Aḥmad became blind and later died of snakebite, as was in the prayer of the mubahalah. Maulawī Shāh Dīn died after becoming insane. Maulawi Ghulām Dastagīr became a victim of the mubahalah initiated by himself. As for those who are still alive, none of them has escaped the above named calamities, even though they have not yet entered into the mubahalah in the prescribed manner.

[Haqiqatul Wahi, pg. 584]

Conclusion

Just like the other enemies, Rashid Ahmad Gangohi was also humiliated and punished by Allah for invoking the curse of Allah upon Ahmad (AS). It is an amazing sign of the support of Allah that He not only helped Ahmad (AS) against so many enemies but also destroyed them within his lifetime.

Make sure to check all other such signs under Signs of Messiah Category of this website.

An Anti-Ahmadi by the name of ReasonOnFaith alleged that Ahmadiyya Jama’at fabricated Malfuzat to add the Mubahala challenge to Pigott, 60 years after the death of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (AS).

Let’s enjoy the absolute ignorance of this ‘intellectual’.

Malfoozat: The compilation made in 1960 of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s statements, written down over half a century after Mirza Ghulam Ahmad had already died. Generally speaking, entries are not traced back to any contemporaneous written records.

…

Perhaps the reason for the missing mubahila reference is that much of the mubahila apologetic comes to us from passages in Malfoozat—a compilation of books not published until the 1960s—and even then, only in Urdu.⁹ As a result, many apologists in the Jama’at for whom English is their main language, wouldn’t have even known about this innovative line of apologetic.

Of course, if a mubahila was proposed to Pigott back in Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s own lifetime, you’d think we’d at least have one article defending the prophecy on those grounds in say, 1908, 1909 or 1910.¹⁰

Ahmadi Muslim readers are encouraged to look for such an article from the period. Try the Review of Religions archives from both the Qadian and Lahore branches of Ahmadiyya Islam. Did you find a candidate article? If so, does it provide authenticated evidence from before Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s own death, that a mubahila was issued? If not, why did we have to wait until the 1960s for this evidence to surface? Food for thought.

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There are countless sensational claims like this, alleging that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community fabricates new references to counter the attacks of its opponents. For the sake of brevity and to spare the little dignity left for the anti-Ahmadis, we will leave it at that.

Refutation

Malfuzat – A fabrication of the 1960s?

Malfuzat is a collection of all the oral sayings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS) that were published in Al-Hakam and Al-Badr newspaper, during the lifetime of the Promised Messiah (AS). This is literally mentioned in the preface of every volume of Malfuzat.

In the preparation of this most recent typeset edition, the original sources from Al-Hakam and Al-Badr Qadian were studied and every effort was made to include any spoken words of the Promised Messiah, on whom be peace

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Every single reference in Malfuzat has the reference of the corresponding Al-Hakam and Al-Badr newspaper’s date and year. Here is 1 simple example from English Malfuzat.

Similarly, Urdu Malfuzat has the exact same references with each narration from Promised Messiah (AS). It is absurd to claim that Ahmadis invented the references and attributed them to Ahmad (AS) to answer the critics.

Pigott Mubahala in Al-Hakam?

After knowing the absolute ignorance of the Anti-Ahmadi, we will now show proof of the reference from Al-Hakam where the Promised messiah (AS) sends a challenge of Mubahala to Pigott.

We should definitely send a letter to Piggott. If he competes, it will have a massive influence and people will also pay attention.

Mufti Sahib said that a letter has already been written.

The Promised Messiah (as) said: In comparison to US [Dowie], we are much more connected with Britain. If he accepts this competition and this is properly documented, we hope that Allah will show a sign.”

The original scan for this particular passage in Malfuzat, vol. 2, p. 439 is found in Al-Badr, Nov 7, 1902, p. 14.

Conclusion

Almost every non-Ahmadi who attacks the Jama’at or the Promised Messiah (AS) displays the same level of ignorance. They do not engage in objective research or genuine learning; rather, their sole motive is to satisfy their ego and push a personal agenda.

Unfortunately, despite repeatedly reminding ReasonOnFaith, the article on his website remains unchanged even after three years. This only reinforces that their attacks on the community are not based on truth or sincerity. May Allah guide every enemy of Jama’at-e-Ahmadiyya. Ameen.

After claiming to be the Messiah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (AS) faced significant opposition from everyone, particularly Muslim scholars. These scholars even resorted to mere curses and foul language.

Since there was no point in academically engaging with such people, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS) challenged 110 of these scholars to a Mubahala (prayer-duel), as listed in his book Anjam-e-Atham. One of them was Maulavi Ghulam Dastagir Qasuri.

Death of Dastagir Qasuri

Maulvi Ghulam Dastagir Qasuri remained quiet for a few years until he made the following prayer in his book and accepted the Mubahala. Soon after he published the book, he died.

This is the translation of the text from Majma’ Bahr al-Anwar, and the original text is also quoted in the margin, from which it is proven that Mirza sahib and the Mirzais follow step by step the false Mahdi and counterfeit Messiah of earlier times, and thus the actual refutation and nullity of their claims to being the Mahdi and Messiah has been established.

O Allah, O Possessor of Majesty and Honor, O Master of the Kingdom! Just as You, through the prayer and effort of a divinely-guided scholar, Hazrat Muhammad Tahir, author of Majma’ Bahr al-Anwar, exposed the falsehood of that Mahdi and sank the boat of that counterfeit Messiah, similarly accept the prayer and supplication of this humble servant from Qasur, may Allah be with him (who with a sincere heart strives to the best of his ability in support of Your true religion), and grant Mirza of Qadian and his disciples the grace of sincere repentance. And if this is not destined, then make them the object of this Quranic verse: ‘So the people that committed wrong were eliminated, and all praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds’ (6:46). Indeed, You have power over all things and are worthy of answering [prayers]. Amen.

.[Fateh Rehmani, pg. 28]

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS) Mentions

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS) mentions this sign in his books. Here is one of them:

73. SEVENTY-THIRD SIGN – Similarly, Maulawi Ghulam Dastagir of Qasür unilaterally entered into a mubahilah with me and in his book prayed thus: “May God kill him who is a liar. He himself died a few days after this prayer. What a great Sign this was for the opposing Maulawis, if they could only but understand!

[Haqiqatul Wahi, pp. 292]

145. [ONE HUNDRED FORTY-FIFTH] SIGN – In his booklet, Fath-e-Rahmani, that was published to refute me in 1315 Hijrah and was printed at the Ahmadi Press, Ludhiana, Maulawi Ghulam Dastagir Qasuri prayed against me in the form of a mubāhalah. This maledictive prayer of his appears on pages 26 and 27 of the said book:

Mubāhalah of Ghulam Dastagir:

اللَّهُمَّ يَا ذَا الْجَلَالِ وَالْإِكْرَامِ يَا مَالِكَ الْمُلْكِ

[O our Allah, O Master of Glory and Honour, O Lord of Sovereignty]! Just as in response to the prayer and effort of a godly scholar, Hadrat Muhammad Tahir [Gujarati], author of Majma’ Bihar al-Anwar, You destroyed the false Mahdi and fake Messiah (who was born in his time), similar is the prayer and petition of this humble one—Qasuri, may God be on his side, who is exerting to the best of his ability in support of Your true religion—that You may enable the Mirza of Qadian and his companions to genuinely repent, but if that is not so decreed, then make them the object of this verse of the Holy Quran:

فَقُطِعَ دَابِرُ الْقَوْمِ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ إِنَّكَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ وَبِالْإِجَابَةِ جَدِيرٌ. أَمِينَ.

Meaning, ‘the last remnant of the people who did wrong shall be cut off and praised be God; You have the power to do everything and You accept prayers.’ Amin.

Again, in the footnote on page 26 of the aforementioned book, the Maulawi has written about me:

لَعْنَةُ اللهِ عَلَى الْكَاذِبِينَ

meaning: ‘May he and his followers perish.’

Thus, I am still alive by the grace of God Almighty and the number of my followers is about fifty times greater than it was at that time. As is obvious, Maulawi Ghulam Dastagir had left the decision regarding my truth or falsehood to the verse فَقُطِعَ دَابِرُ الْقَوْمِ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا which in this context means that the root of whosoever is unjust will be cut off, and it is no secret to any scholar that the application of the aforesaid verse is general and it affects the one who is the wrongdoer. Therefore, it was but necessary that the wrongdoer should be destroyed by virtue of this verse. Since in Allah’s sight Ghulam Dastagir Qasuri was the wrongdoer, he did not even get the respite to see the publication of his book, and died even before its publication; everyone knows that he died within a few days after his prayer.

Some ignorant maulawis write that Ghulam Dastagir did not do the mubāhalah; he had only prayed against the wrongdoer. But I say that when he had sought God’s adjudication with my death and had declared me to be the wrongdoer, why then did that malediction backfire upon him? Why did God single out Ghulam Dastagir for death at such a critical time when people were eagerly awaiting the verdict from God; whereas he wished my death in his prayer in order to prove to the world that just as a false Mahdi and false Messiah had died as a result of Muhammad Tahir’s malediction, so would I die as a result of his prayer? Why then was the effect of his prayer exactly the opposite?

It is true that a false Mahdi and a false Messiah had died as a result of Muhammad Tahir’s malediction and emulating that same Muhammad Tahir, Ghulam Dastagir had prayed against me. It is indeed a point to ponder as to what the effect of Muhammad Tahir’s malediction was and what the effect of Ghulam Dastagir’s prayer was. Should you now assert that Ghulam Dastagir died by chance, then you should also affirm that the false Mahdi, too, died by chance and that it was no miracle of Muhammad Tahir’s.

لَعْنَةُ اللهِ عَلَى الْكَاذِبِينَ

[The curse of Allah be upon the liars!]

About eleven years have passed since the death of Ghulam Dastagir. God killed him who was wrongdoer and ruined his house. Now speak up with justice! Who was uprooted and upon whom did the prayer befall? Says Allah the Almighty:

يَتَرَبَّصُ بِكُمُ الدَّوَائِرَ عَلَيْهِمْ دَائِرَةُ السَّوْءِ

Meaning that: O Prophet! These evil-minded enemies wait for all kinds of calamities to befall you. They themselves will be overtaken by calamities. Thus, according to this noble verse, it is the way of Allah that if anyone invokes a curse upon a truthful person, that very curse backfires on him. This way of Allah is evident from the explicit dicta of the Quran and ahadith.

Now, tell [me], has Ghulam Dastagir—after invoking this curse—died or not? Therefore, explain to me the mystery behind why a false Messiah fell dead from the malediction of Muhammad Tahir, yet the one who prayed against me fell dead himself. God extended my life so that I have remained alive for eleven years, yet He did not grant Ghulam Dastagir even a single month’s respite.

———– Footnote ———-
Ghulam Dastagir’s intention about me was that I would die as a result of his malediction and that it would be the proof that I was a liar and fabricator; and like Muhammad Tahir, it would prove the miracle of Ghulam Dastagir. In this regard my God, addressing me, said

إِنِّي مُهِينٌ مَّنْ أَرَادَ إِهَانَتَكَ

[‘I shall humiliate him who designs to humiliate you’].

In the end, Ghulam Dastagir perished by the verdict of God and I am still alive by the grace of God and this is a magnificent Sign. (Author)

[Haqiqatul Wahi, pp. 414]

Testimony of the Enemies

Many enemies of the Promised Messiah (AS) were shocked at the death of numerous men who came to challenge Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS). Sanaullah was very scared as well.

When Ahmad (AS) challenged him for a Mubahala, he ran away with the following excuse:

My permission was not taken regarding this prayer, and it was published without my permission.

This is not acceptable to me, nor would any sensible person agree to such a challenge.

My contest is with you. If I were to die, then how would that be a proof for the public? According to you Maulavi Ghulam Dastagir Qasuri (Deceased), Maulvi Isma’eel Alighari (Deceased), and Dr. Dowie, the American, died in this way. So have people accepted you as true? Good, if this happens again what will be the effect?

[Ahl-e-Hadith, 26 April 1907, pg 5]

Non-Ahmadis confirm that Maulavi Ghulam Dastagir Qasoori died in 1897, during the lifetime of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS).

“Mawlana Qasuri (RH) died in 1897. Mirza was alive at that time.”

[Aqeedah Khatm-e-Nabuwwat, vol. 1, pg. 138]

Conclusion

The death of the Maulvi Dastagir Qasuri is one of the biggest signs of the truthfulness of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS). Each and every person who came against him was humiliated. Hundreds of enemies tried to kill him, prayed for his death, challenged him to heavenly signs and or called him for academic challenges. God granted victory to the Promised Messiah (AS) against each of them.

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