Mirza Ghulam Ahmad had a group of literate friends and admirers early on (early 1880s) who eventually increased their distance as his claims started to become less credulous and he gained notoriety. Then, after 1889, he started to attract those who were less literate but more superstitious and these grew to a few hundred by the mid-to-late 1890s.
Confidants who Turned Against MGA
Muhammad Hussain Batalvi
Mir Abbas Ali Shah
Babu Ilahi Baksh
Dr. Abdul Hakim
Original 313 (327)
This comes from a list that he published in one of his books. An estimate by Munir D. Ahmed shows that about two-thirds of these had left over the next decade or so.
Notable People/Families who Left
- Rulers of Maleer Kotla
- Father of Arif Abdul Mateen, Urdu Poet
- Hamid Ahmed, Entrepreneur, Karachi Pakistan
- Z A Sulehri, editor of Pakistan Times
- Munir D. Ahmed's grandfather and himself
- Hassan bin Mahmood al-Odeh (Director of Arabic Programming/Publication of Ahmadiyya), Ahmad bin Mahmood al-Odeh, former President of Ahmadiyya in Sweden, and their brother, Salih bin Mahmood Odeh. They are from the Kababir clan, the only Arab presence of the Ahmadiyya.
- [Ahmad Karim Shaikh], co-ordinator of clandestine missions of the Ahmadiyya and founder of the 'ahmedi.org' site
- Ibrahim Lamholt, from Denmark
- Tamim Maaita, Jordanian
- Ahmad Hussain Abu Sardana, of Gaza
- Saleem Al-Jabi, of Syria
- Ismail Babatunde Jose of Nigeria
- Ibrahim Abu Nab - journalist - published four articles in a Kuwait daily about Hassan Odeh's departure
- Alhaj Abu Bakr Saeed and S.P. Tayo of Ghana (circa 1974)
- Dr. Ismail Balogun of Nigeria, author of "Islam versus Ahmadiyyah in Nigeria", published by Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, Kashmiri Bazar, Lahore
- Dr. Akbar A. Chaudhry of Canada, author and TV host
Exact Numbers and Exaggeration
From around the Indian Census in 1901, the number has been ambiguous and has fluctuated wildly. H.A. Walter's The Ahmadiya Movement also describes this exaggeration.
In the 1990s, the Ahmadiyya leadership went on 'doubling' there numbers every year until it became untenable, by which time they had hit The 200 Million Figure. The official number has come down to 'tens of millions' since then, but the best estimates put them at somewhere between 500,000 to 2 million worldwide.
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