The reverend John Hugh Smyth-Pigott claimed to be the Christ in 1902. He was challenged by Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who predicted his doom in the same year and the fact that his own name and fame would spread across London when that of Pigott would have long vanished and that his own Ark of Noah would overtake that of Pigott's, in allusion to the title of the pamphlet that was received in Qadian from Piggot (Malfoozat ii, 512).
I have visited his house in London and the Ark of the Covenant – A study of the recent book The Abode of Love written by his granddaughter will prove how gloriously this prophecy of the holy founder of the Ahmadiyya was fulfilled. The Ark of the true Messiah has been established in Piggot’s own city since 1984. Below is a film about Pigott's house and 2 interviews with his granddaughter and author of The Abode of Love, Kate Barlow.
1. Woman's Hour: Growing Up Within a Religious Cult. (BBC Radio 4, 4 April 2006).
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Thanks for the link. I believe the dispute between Qadiani and Lahori Ahmadis is not one regarding the prophethood of the Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (both believe him to be a prophet in one sense or another) but a dispute about the institution of Khilafat.
ReplyDeleteI concur - I think prophethood was not the main issue - especially if you read the tracts in Anwar al-'Ulum, Hadrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad (ra) was more worried about the jama'at splitting rather than anything else and was trying to convince others around him to select 'one of them' (i.e., from the people who later became the Lahori jama'at) for the sake of the unity of the jama'at and to not worry about their opinions on the prophethood aspect.
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