The Agapemonites: 2 Interviews with Kate Barlow.

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 was fulfilled.  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).

2.  The Spirit of Things.  (ABC Radio, 3 January 2010).

Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad on Sir Philip Sidney

Thus when, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Sir Philip Sidney was injured during the siege of the fort of Zutphen in Holland, and he was in the death throes and extremely thirsty, a cup of water was brought to him which was very scarce there. Near to him was another injured soldier who was thirsty. He started looking at Sidney with much envy.  Seeing his desire, Sidney did not drink the cup himself but, by way of sacrifice, gave it to that soldier, saying “Your need is greater than mine”.

It is quite clear that Sidney considered the soldier to be more valuable than himself for 2 reasons. Firstly, that Sidney was about to die and the soldier could have been more useful while alive. Secondly, that the soldier was a brave fighter. That is why Sidney said: “Your need is greater”.

This is an example of bravery and the quality of sacrifice shown by Sidney, the conclusion from which is that a greater man laid down his life for a lesser one.

(Kitabul Bariyya [The Book of Acquittal].  Ziyaul Islam Press, 1898).

Khwaja Kamaluddeen narrated to me and I have myself read this story that when Sir Philip Sidney was injured during the siege of the fort of Zutphen in Holland during the reign of Queen Elizabeth,and he was in the death throes and extremely thirsty, a cup of water was brought to him which was very scarce there.  Near to him was another injured soldier who was thirsty. He started looking at Sidney with much envy.  Seeing his desire, Sidney did not drink the cup himself but, by way of sacrifice, gave it to that soldier, saying “Your need is greater than mine”.  Just as some people do not desist from affectation even at the time of death.  However even charlatans can usually do such works from foppery, who wish to display a pretence of their grand morals. 

(31 January 1898.  Malfoozat: i.  138).

John Barleycorn by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. (November 2009).