200 Million Ahmadis have returned!

[Shadab]

They include Jinns and dead also.

On Indian website of qadian 10 million figure is mentioned worldwide.

[admin]

Br. Shadab, it would be really useful if you would be so kind as to update your message to include a link to the figure mentioned for India.

[Shadab]

Here is the link of official website of Gurdaspur.

http://gurdaspur.nic.in/html/towns.htm

Qadian

Qadian is situated 18 Kilometers east of Batala city. The town can also be approached from Gurdaspur Via Kahnuwan-Kot-Todarmal which becomes a distance of 26 Kilometers.

Town of Qadian is associated with the founder of AHMADIYA MUSLIA SECT, the Promised Messiah "HAZRAT MIRRZA GULAM AHMAD " who was born in Qadian. Qadian is not only known now within India but enjoys special regard in the hearts of 10 million Ahmadia Muslims spread in all five continents of the world.

It is considered that Qadian was established in 1530 AD. MIRZA HADI BAIG was the first Qazi (city Magistrate) of this area. Because of this, the town became to be known as Qazi. Mirza Hadi Baig was a religious scholar dedicated to Islam. Therefore he named the new town "ISLAM PUR QAZI". With the passage of time, it changed to "QaziMaji" then to "QADI" and eventually to its natural transformation to be known as QADIAN.

It was in 1834 AD during the rule of Maharaja Ranjit Singh that the estate consisting of Qadian and five adjoining villages were given to MIRZA GHULAM MURTAZA AHMAD, father of the Messiah Mirza Gulam Ahmad.

At that time, Qadian had no significance in the area at all with population of a few hundred people and only a sandy track pitted with pot holes connected the town with Batala. People were totally ignorant and uneducated. There was total lack of urban amenities and facilities.

A remote and unknown village "Qadian" even in the province of Punjab emerged as centre of Islamic learning in 1891, when Hazrat Gulam Mirza 1835-1908 proclaimed himself the basis of AHMADIYA Movement in Islam.

Qadian is very dear to Ahmadies all over the world, but their unity was upset during the communal disturbance in 1947. No body wanted to leave Qadian, although KHALIFATUL MESSIH II was forced to migrate to Pakistan in 1947 and established a new Headquarter at RABWAH. Ahamdiya Anjman, a religious registered body did not migrate to Pakistan. Talim- ul- Islam College building, Noor Hospital building and most of the residential buildings were attached to the Ahamdiya Anjman. So this religious body got these buildings. Now the college building is given on rent to the Sikh National College Qadian and there is a Civil Hospital in the building of Noor Hospital.

[shahid]

Interesting analysis here: (Had to grab the cached copy)

http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:Kd ... hp%3Fjmb_u

*AHMADIYYA DEMOGRAPHICS

Ahmadis claim a following of 30 million, but many authorities believe that this figure has been grossly exaggerated to support the Ahmadi cause. Let us look at what is available. Let us begin with the claim that Pakistan holds 4 million Ahmadis. [8] Yet on closer inspection there is evidence that Ahmadis constitute apporximately 0.22% of the population of Pakistan which at the time of this comparison was 173 million people. [9]

Using 0.22% of 173 million brings the figure to a more realistic figure of 346,000 a reduction of over the multiple of 10. This is the figure we shall use.

Number of estimated Ahmadis by country:

Pakistan 346,000*(adjusted)

Bangladesh 100,000

Indonesia 200,000

African Benin 165,000* (2.011Million adjusted to 2.5% if Benin population of 6.6 mill)

India 1,000,000

Britain 18,000

Germany 30,000

Canada 30,000

Mali 50,000

Ivory Coast 24,000

Bosnia 100,000

Albania 45,000

Ghana 100,000

French Speaking 150,000

USA 40,000 (est)

Total 2,398,000* (This is a more realistic figure favouring Ahmadis.) [8]

The above figures are more likely to be closer to the truth than the exaggerated figures claimed. It is still at best an educated estimate.

I have maintained for quite a while that I can't see how the Ahmadiyya number more than 2M worldwide, it's interesting to see this analysis yield close to my estimate.

For example, consider India. Recently, a bright Ahmadi told me he believed in 80M in India. Staggering. I saw some census figures given to Canada by India that showed the Ahmadiyya community in India to number no more than 100,000! That's right, the Ahmadiyya exaggerated 800 fold!

[shahid]

http://ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.com/2010 ... their.html

It is this quality that allows the more than 20 million Ahmadiyya Muslims to contribute millions of dollars to these giving schemes.