Revelations of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad From WikiAhmadiyya, the free encyclopedia on Islam and Ahmadiyyat
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claimed to experience a number of dreams, visions and revelations directly from God. He argued God had spoken to prophets and saints through the ages and retained the power to do so. Far from being mute, God continued to communicate and establish His relationship with humankind. The primary, supreme and unmatched religious text for Ahmad and his followers eternally remains the Quran and his works and writings are viewed as commentaries and explanations of the scripture. Critics of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad note he occasionally misunderstood revelations. For instance, he received the revelation 'O Jesus', but initially did not claim to be the messiah until several years later, as he did not initially gather the full meaning of the words. Ahmadis respond that the Quran and Bible record how several previous prophets did not immediately grasp the full meaning of revelations. For example, Abraham believed he had been commanded to slaughter his son before God explained this was not the case:
Some critics take aim at revelations such as "You are of me and I am of you" as blasphemous. Ahmadis explain these are metaphors which have previously been employed in the Quran:
Of course it was not literally God's hand that threw during battle in the above metaphor. Again, the Quran states:
Once more, those who swore allegiance to the propeht of Islam Muhammadsa placed their hands beneath his, however in the verse above God compares the hand of the prophet to His own, in a metaphorical sense. Such metaphors are based on the following tradition:
Similarly 'blasphemous' revelations can be found in other scriptures such as the Bible and the works of previous Islamic scholars including Rumi. Grammatically incorrect EnglishCritics deride some of Ahmad's English revelations as grammatically incorrect. Ahmadis argue this assertion is entirely incorrect and based on the critics' own poor understanding of English grammar, the rules of which stretch far beyond the commonly spoken informal English of the present today. Poetic words, including revelation, often follow more artful rules - as regularly demonstrated in the Quran and even in classical English literature, which may appear entirely incomprehensible to those who have not come across it previously:
However even if there were same mistake in Ahmad's recording of his English revelation, he himself explained:
Similarly, Muhammadsa on rare occasions forgot divinely revealed messages and so to this day Muslims are unaware of the exact date of the Night of Decree:
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