Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

"Jesus in India"
The title of his famous treatise in Urdu. Read the full text online.

Background
Ghulam Ahmad was born in the year 1835 in a small town called Qadian, in India.
In 1884 he published a massive work entitled, Baraheen Ahmadiyya [Urdu] in which he presented what he considered to be 300 proofs of the superiority of Islam over all other religions.

Then in the year 1890, Ghulam Ahmad shocked not only his Christian and Hindu enemies, but his Muslim brethren as well. For he made the awesome claim that God had appointed him the Masih (Messiah) and the long- awaited Imam Mahdi whom Muhammad had predicted would bring about the final rule of Islam

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad - Review of Religion
“The most remarkable thing about the tomb is that it is known not only as the tomb of Nabi Sahib, but also as that of Isa Sahib. Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad, son of the Promised Messiah [referring to Ghulam Ahmad], paid a visit to the tomb in July last; and when he asked an old woman, the last survivor of a long line of the hereditary attendants of the tomb, whose tomb it was, she replied: ‘It is the tomb of Isa Sahib.’ Being asked why she called it the tomb of Isa Sahib, while the Maulvis [Islamic clergy] believed Isa to be in the heavens, she said, ‘Let them believe what they will. The name [Isa] is the one which we have been hearing from our forefathers.’”

In thisaccount its clear that prior to the authorship and publication of Ghulam Ahmad’s book, Jesus In India, there had been no fuss over this tomb of “Isa Sahib.” The name Isa is the word used in the the Quran, for Jesus, and also in Buddhist works. It appears this being the 'Tomb of Jesus' was not seen as something surpriing and significant to those living near the tomb.

There existed no anti-Christian organization or anti-Christian movement that, for instance, was attempting to strike at Christianity “in the name of Islam.” No one in the area had been making any attempt to announce this to the world. The fact that “Isa Sahib” lay in the Roza Bal was nothing extraordinary to the people, other than the fact that he was considered a prophet.

Introduction | The Discovery | Review of Religions

Opposition
There presently exists entire orthodox Islamic societies that are dedicated to destroying the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, as well as refuting the claims of its founder.

Jesus Survived the Cross
Ahmad said that in the language of dreams if dead are seen rising out of their grave and returning home it means that a prisoner will be freed. Ahmad said this explains Matthew 27:52