OPDINAPtY GENERAL MEETING.* 



Colonel T. Holbein Hendley, G.I.E., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, 

 lie following paper was re; d by the Secretary, in the absence of the 

 author : — 



THE MESSIAH OF Q AD I AN. 

 By the Eev. H. D. Griswold, M.A., Ph.D. 



I. Introductory. 



ONE of the most interesting characters in India to-day is 

 the Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, chief of the village of Qadian, 

 in the Gurdaspur District, Panjab. He is the founder of a 

 reforming Mohammedan sect, tu which he has given the name 

 Ahmadiyyah, or Society of Ahmad. Accordingly his disciples 

 write the adjective Ahmadl after their names. But popularly 

 his followers are called Qddidnis, from the name of the village 

 which is the centre and capital of the movement, or Mirzdls, 

 from the title of their master. The name Ahmadiyyah is 

 intended to have a larger reference than simply to the name of 

 the founder of the society. The Prophet of Islam bore two 

 names, Muhammad and Ahmad. According to the Qadian! 

 interpretation, Muhammad is the jalall name, aim is significant 

 of his triumphant career, while his jamdll name is Ahmad, 

 wdrich points to the peace and tranquility that he was to spread 

 in the world. Vide Census of India, 1901, vol. ix, p. 69. 

 Now the Mirza Ghulam Ahmad denounces the doctrine of jihad 

 and with it all crimes of violence committed in the name of 



* Monday, May 15 th, 1905. 



