Qadian Kei Aryah Aur Hamm

The Aryas of Qadian

Background

Hazrat Jalal-ud-Din Shams(ra) in the introduction to this book says: “The Promised Messiah(as) was prompted to write this book on account of vicious and provocative interruption of Aryas of Qadian on the occasion of annual Jalsa of 1906.”

Repeated contention by Lalah Sharampat Ra’i and others that they had never seen any heavenly sign of the Promised Messiah(as) disappointed him. The Promised Messiah(as) mentioned a number of heavenly signs of which these Aryas of Qadian were a witness and they intentionally denied that they are a witness.

The people of the Aryah Samaj had been, from the very beginning, against the Promised Messiah(as). They had always been engaged in all sorts of plots to curb, in their own mind, the growth of this Movement. These activities of the Aryah Samaj reached their height in 1905-1906. They set up a school called Dyanand Jubilee School as a parallel institution to “Ta‘limul Islam Madrasah” and also founded a journal in Qadian under the name of Shubh Chantak. Somraj was its editor and the prime object of this journal was to publish all filthy and vulgar attacks against the Promised Messiah(as). To crown all these efforts, on December 27, 1906, when over two thousand Ahmadis had arrived in Qadian for taking part in the annual gathering and were offering the Maghrib Prayer led by the Promised Messiah(as), the Aryah Samaj opened up a loud speaker blaring at the Masjid Aqsa and making highly obscene and vulgar attacks against the Promised Messiah(as) and the Holy Prophet(sa). All this had happened in the presence of a Police Inspector, who had come from Batala for the maintenance of peace. When the Promised Messiah(as) finished the Maghrib Prayer, he urged upon his followers to exercise restraint and show patience. He said that God watches all this, and the oppressor will be punished and the Hindus of Qadian are under the wrath of God, for they bear witness to the fact that I was an unknown figure twenty six years ago, and at that time, He informed me that hundreds of thousands of people will come to me so much so that the roads of Qadian will wear out. With what glory, this Prophecy has reached its fulfilment, the Aryas of Qadian are its witness, especially Lalah Sharampat Ra’i and Malawamal.1

The next day the Aryah Samaj organ Shubh Chantak made a violent attack on the Promised Messiah(as) and stated that none of the Aryah Samajists named by the Promised Messiah(as) had witnessed anything.

The Book

Such an attack by the Aryah Samaj was against the facts. So, the Promised Messiah(as) decided to reply back. He started writing a book which was published on February 20, 1907. In this book, he recalled some of the signs which were within the knowledge of Lala Sharampat Ra’i and others, and the Promised Messiah(as) swearing by God and challenged them they should take an oath and swear by God that they had not been the witnesses to these signs and if they were telling lies then God would punish them and their children within one-year time. If they did not take the prescribed oath and made an attempt to cover up the truth, even then it was his hope that God would not spare them, for it was not the Promised Messiah(as)’s insult but His.

On the publication of this book, the manager of the journal, Achar Chand, during a course of discussion with the editor of al-Hakam, Sheikh Ya‘qub ‘Ali, claimed, “Like Mirza Sahib, I also declare that I would not die of plague.

One simply just has to witness the Divine spectacle, that all the staff of Shubh Chantak soon became victims of plague. First the sons of Somraj and Bhagat Ram died of the plague, then Bhagat and Achar Chand. Somraj approached a local Hakim for medical treatment. He, in turn, sought the permission of the Promised Messiah(as) to treat him. The Promised Messiah(as) permitted him to do so, but then added that he would not escape the Divine punishment and the latter joined others the next day.

The book, among others, also recalled the prophecy about Pandit Lekh Ram, how and in what miraculous way it reached its fulfilment. The Promised Messiah(as) also informed the Aryah Samaj of Qadian about their tragic end.

Specimen of Writing

After an appeal had been preferred in the Chief Court in the case of Bishambar Das one ‘Ali Muhammad, a Mulla of Qadian, who is still alive and is opposed to my Movement, came to me in our big mosque at the time of the evening prayer and told me that the appeal of Bishambar Das has been accepted and that there was a great rejoicing over it in the bazaar. On this I became sad and sorrowful and the evening prayer began while I was in this condition. While I was in prostration during the prayer the revelation was vouchsafed to me: “Grieve not, indeed thou art on top.” I informed Sharampat of this and eventually it was known that Bishambar Das had not been acquitted though his appeal was accepted and his case was remitted to the lower court.2