The Meeting with Mírzá Ghulám Ahmad and the Book Written in Refutation of His Claims

Mírzá Asadu'llah Fádil Mázandarání, in his book, provides details of a meeting with Mírzá Ghulám Ahmad and the book written in refutation of his claims.

The Meeting with Mírzá Ghulám Ahmad

Sayyid Muṣṭafá Rumi was the individual who met with Mírzá Ghulám Ahmad.

• He is identified as Mírzá Ghulám Ahmad, the founder of the Qadiani movement.

• Sayyid Muṣṭafá engaged in discourse and debate with Mírzá Ghulám Ahmad. This was part of Sayyid Muṣṭafá's mission which involved travel and public discussion with leaders and scholars of different faiths and sects, including various Islamic sects and Hindus, throughout the vast country of India.

• Sayyid Muṣṭafá gave Mírzá Ghulám Ahmad books of the Baháʼí Faith.

The Book Against the Punjabi Mahdi

The reason of writing this book against Mírzá Ghulám Ahmad was to refute his claim.

• Mírzá Ghulám Ahmad Qadiyani is referred to as the "Punjabi Mahdi".

• The name the book as Kitáb al-Abrár.

• The book was one of the published works of Baháʼí scholar Sheikh al-Ra'īs (Sheikh Muḥammad Fazl-i-Kirmānī).

• The book was explicitly written in refutation of Mírzá Ghulám Ahmad Qadiyani. Sheikh al-Ra'īs clarifies that he wrote the book specifically "in refutation of the Punjabi claimant to Mahdihood".

• This comprehensive work was published in Bombay in the year 1335 AH (1917 CE).

• When addressing criticism (by Baháʼís) for keeping books considered "misleading" in his possession, Sheikh al-Ra'īs stated that he required such literature for scholarly work, asking rhetorically if it would have been possible to write his detailed refutation (Kitáb al-Abrár) against the "frivolities and nonsense" of the Punjabi Mahdi "without guarding and observing that nonsense". 

Sheikh al-Ra'īs throughout his life, he was known for observing caution and guarded his position. He skillfully concealed and veiled the inner reality of his beliefs (did Taqiyya). Sheikh al-Ra'īs himself referred to Kitáb al-Abrár as "one of the compositions of high Islamic scholarship"!

Source: Eighth volume of Tarikh Zuhur al-Haqq by Mirza Asadu’llah Fadil Mazandarani