Peace sister sweetu
Ahmadis are indeed followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani. Who came around 100 years ago during the times when India was struggling with Britain for independence. Qadian is an area in India............................
Because the British were more tolerant of a passive ideology such as the one brought by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad they began to rise and grow. Our leaders in that time were very much caught up in ferocious talk and the newly emerging diplomatic arena bent a slant towards Muslims as being uncivilised and unruly. Jihad is thus tamed down when it comes to Ahmadis they prefer to get into debates and discussion.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad impressively wrote many books and parts of them in five other languages. This feat intrigued the mostly ignorant Indians of 100 years ago very much. I believe he was the son of a laywer, so he may have learned the art of argumentation from a good source.....................
Ahmadis do believe that Muhammad (SAW) is the greatest and seal of prophets, but their actions are not synchronised with their words, making it seem like lip service. ..............
I don't know if he drunk, but he asked for wine. I don't know if he took opium, but he made a medicine from it ... ...........
I have my personal thoughts but I am looking for proof. Just recently I have seen that he wrote a statement about his wife asking him to be the only person to wash her dead body. This I found interesting as this statement was made by Fatimah (RA) to Ali (RA). Also he said that he felt the pains of child birth taking the exact words from the Qur'an but only replacing the she with he. How a man can have child bearing pains defeats me, but it seems a bit odd, we can demand an explanation from our Ahmadi brothers............
Another thing he said which really makes me think is that "one does not attain high spiritual status until he undergoes a kind of death" these again are not original to him..........
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad received many visions and dreams and I believe he did. But I doubt heavily that he was visited by anything good. He has said that he was offered the world by God in human form and in another case he felt like God. These are clear tricks from Shaytan, because the style is his that he tempts using lures of this world.
Sir, I admire your study of the Ahmadiyya movement but because you want to find flaws in our beliefs, you have made many assumptions not fit for a fair researcher.
For example, your observation that "he felt like God" is clearly a satanic idea is wrong. God becomes hands and feet of his true servant according to a Hadith e Qudsi. Quran also says that the hand that took Bai'at of the believers was not that of Holy Prophet (saw), but God's own. There are many instances in Sufi literature which supports this view and thus can not be found objectionable.
This links in with the idea of death giving way to spiritual life. Again, you have assumed that this is somehow a stolen idea. But it has its sound basis in the Quran. Bai'at, an established custom in Islam is literally selling one's soul to God. i.e., assuming a death like state in material sense. Quran speaks of Martyrdom as a form of eternal life. One kind of martyrs are those who die in the way of Allah i.e., in wars etc. But the wider definition of Shaheed is of a person who witnesses the Glory of God and thus gains eternal (spiritual) life and this title is not reserved to the fallen of holy wars. There are also many instances where life and death cycle in nature is compared to spiritual rejuvenation of people. I can not see how you find this idea alien to Islam.
The female analogies of pangs of labour, transformation which happens from embryonic states to a fully grown man etc are all spiritual analogies. Mullah considers such analogies as filth, but to be fair, we all are product of such physical processes and there is nothing wrong with drawing analogies as there is nothing dirty or wrong with them. Many Ahadith draw analogies between mothers emotions and God's love for his servants. Quran calls all believers to be the likeness of the wife of Pharoah and mother of Jesus (as)..
As for Tonic wine, opium, cocaine derivatives etc.. these all were and are used as halal medicinal products. If you go to a dentist you get a shot of coccaine in your gums.. Sufferers of severe pains get opiods in all muslim countries and alcohol is a carrier of many medicines in all systems of treatment.
And a few corrections.. The father of Mirza Sahib was not a lawyer, but a land owner. Mirza sahib did work in courts of law in Sialkot, but his argumentative skills were derived from Quran and a well established Islamic tradition called Ilmul Kalam. I find in his words many jewels of wisdom, which you can also find if you read them with the right questions in your mind. For example, ask yourself what could be the answer to the Danish cartoons and then read his discourses on Jihad and the life of Holy Prophet (saw).. You will find plenty of responses which will open your eyes to the beauties of Quran.
The notions of Jihad and violence which still prevail in orthodox muslim minds has been dealt a heavy blow when Sayed Imam Abdulaziz al-Sharif, the intellectual father of Al-Qaeda, Islamic Jihad etc etc recanted from his beliefs and issued a detailed series of edicts explaining the true Islamic Jihad. No surprises here as most of his arguments seem to agree with what Mirza Sahib wrote more than a hundred years ago. It is not British who needed a peaceful movement in Islam. Infact they would have and still are benefitting from the fool hardiness of the Mullah. How they have managed to attain control of muslim lands is not the fault of peace loving muslims or even corrupt leaders, but it is the foolishness of the Mullah who has literally said "aa bail mujhay maar" ..
There is an increasing number of scholars who now vocally preach peaceful Jihad. Many stress on the need of Khilafat and there is a growing number of scholars who consider Jesus (as) to have died. Why would the colonial British support a movement which in effect killed their God?