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(See Question 5 here.)

Members of the Qadiani Movement frequently argue that the size of their Jama‘at is much larger than ours and this proves that Allah is one their side and their beliefs are right and ours are wrong. The following are our comments on this claim.

1. This is exactly what the Christian missionaries were saying to Muslims at the time of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, that the fact that the Christian nations are so supremely successful and dominant in the world proves their religion to be right and Islam to be false. Should Hazrat Mirza sahib have accepted their argument as correct? In fact, he characterised them as the dajjal who was prophesied to be dominant over the whole world, but whose dominance by no means proved the truth of their religion. He launched a campaign against their doctrines and ideologies by means of pen and speech.

Even today, the Western nations could use the same argument against Islam and the Muslims (including Qadianis), that their dominance and power in the world prove the truth of its ideology.

2. If the Qadianis claim, in comparison with us, that they are right because they constitute the vast majority of the followers of the Promised Messiah, then the general Muslims can make the claim against Qadianis that they (the general Muslims) constitute the vast majority of the followers of the Holy Prophet Muhammad and that therefore they are the true custodians of his religion.

We show below the response given by the late Mirza Tahir Ahmad to just this argument by the opponents of the Ahmadiyya Movement. They claim that as they, representing the vast majority of Muslims, have declared Ahmadis to be non-Muslim, therefore this verdict must be accepted as a right and valid Islamic judgment. The late Mirza Tahir Ahmad, in a statement dated 17 May 1985, published in the Qadiani organ Al-Fazl International on its front page in the issue for 28 May 2004, declared as follows about this:

We translate below the essential part of this statement. Addressing the anti-Ahmadiyya coalition of Muslims he declares:

“This is what we think of your majority and of the value and worth of your majority. We do not care in the least for this majority because our Leader and Patron Muhammad mustafa, may peace and the blessings of Allah be upon him, does not care for such a majority. …

If you are right, God forbid, and Muhammad mustafa, may peace and the blessings of Allah be upon him, is wrong, God forbid, then we want to be the one group which, while being wrong, is still siding with the our Leader Muhammad mustafa, may peace and the blessings of Allah be upon him. We certainly do not wish to be among the seventy-two sects who are not accepted by our Leader and Patron Muhammad mustafa, may peace and the blessings of Allah be upon him.”

Thus, in response to their anti-Ahmadiyya Muslim opponents, who claim to represent the vast majority of Muslims, the Qadianis declare that being in the majority is no proof of being right, and that the minority group is right if it follows the Holy Prophet Muhammad. We give the same response to the Qadianis in their contention with us, that being in the majority is no proof that you are following the true teachings of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, and what matters is who is siding with the Promised Messiah.