Lecture Ludhiana

Lecture Ludhiana

Background

The Promised Messiah(as) undertook a journey of Delhi, Ludhiana and Amritser and left Qadian for this journey on October 22, 1905. He arrived in Delhi the next day. Before leaving for Delhi, he had a vision on the night of October 21. In his vision, he saw: “When I went to Delhi, I found all doors locked and then I saw locks on the doors and then somebody was trying to insert some painful thing in my ear, I asked what suffering you cause to me, is nothing compared to those the Holy Prophet(sa) had undergone.1

The visit to Delhi was uneventful. All attempts by the followers of the Promised Messiah(as) to organise a public meeting where he could talk about his mission did not bear fruit. So, a Messiah came to Delhi, and the people of Delhi had not the luck of listening to any of his illuminating lectures. The Promised Messiah(as) spent some time in Delhi in visiting the mazars (shrines) of Khawajah Qutubuddin Baqiullah, Khawajah Mir Dard, Shah Waliullah, Khawajah Nizamuddin, Khawaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiar Kaki and Makhdoom Nasiruddin Mahmud Chiragh. On the evening of November 4, he left Delhi for Ludhiana and arrived on November 5, at 11 am. Here, the Promised Messiah(as) was given a rousing reception, even though the visit was not planned, just in contrast to the reception he got in Delhi. A lecture was arranged for November 6, at 8:30 a.m. in Committee Bagh at Ludhiana. It was the same city, where on March 23, 1889, he accepted the first bai‘at.

The Book

In the lecture that the Promised Messiah(as) delivered in Ludhiana, he again enumerated at length, and in greater detail, the qualities of Islam and the reasons why Islam was a living religion, the Promised Messiah(as) said:

I have come to this city after 14 years. At that time I had only a few followers with me. A wall of opposition was raised against me and a campaign of vilification and my denial was very vocal. These people thought that my Jama‘at would break up in few days and disappear and no sign of this Movement would be left and for this purpose elaborate plans and schemes were made and a serious conspiracy was hatched against me so much so that a writ of blasphemy was issued against me and my followers and this writ was made known all over India But now I am here and I see you, and you can see me. The people, who called me infidel, are no longer alive and God has kept me alive and multiplied my Jama‘at many times … 2

Promised Messiah(as) declared with a majesty of a Prophet:

The time has come that Islam will re-emerge with pristine glory and I have come with this purpose … I say with the full command of my belief that God Almighty has decided to earse all other religions and give full dominance to Islam overall other religions.3

Since there was a large number of Muslims in this meeting, the Promised Messiah(as) once again explained the theory of the natural death of Jesus Christ with the help of the Holy Quran and Sunnah. The Promised Messiah(as) concluded the lecture with the assertion:

Signs in my support are not few, more than one hundred thousand people are witnesses to my signs. Don’t be quick in my denial, or you will account for it. Remember God. He establishes the truth of the true and exposes the falsehood of the false.4