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Go to Contents Page. This book is also available in pdf format.First Printed Edition, 1995. Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal is revered as one of the greatest poets, intellectuals and philosophers to arise in the history of Islam. He had met Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, and wrote of him in 1900 as “probably the profoundest theologian among modern Indian Muslims”. In 1910 Iqbal described the Ahmadiyya community as “a true model of Islamic life”. Later in 1932 he wrote of members of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement as “Muslims who have a sense of honour”. Yet today we find the opponents of the Ahmadiyya Movement publishing on a vast, world-wide scale, statements of Iqbal made in the last four years of his life, denouncing and rejecting this Movement, its Founder, and its work. How and why did this extraordinary change in Iqbal’s public stance come about? In this well-researched booklet, Hafiz Sher Mohammad examines the whole history of Iqbal’s relationship with the Ahmadiyya Movement, and traces the factors which influenced his view of it, both in the earlier years and near the end of his life.
Hafiz Sher Mohammad (d. 1990) served the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha'at
Islam Lahore as missionary since his youth, first within Pakistan
and later in several other countries. He was one of the Movement’s
greatest scholars and an un equalled authority on the writings and
claims of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. He lectured and wrote extensively,
in the Urdu language, on all aspects of Islam and the Ahmadiyya Movement.
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