24-599: Bahishti Maqbara (English: The Heavenly Graveyard), located originally in Qadian, India , and then in Rabwah, Pakistan , is a religious cemetery established by the Ahmadiyya Community as a directive from the community's founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , made known in his booklet Al-Wasiyyat . Mirza Ghulam Ahmad established it in his will after he saw an angel showing him the place of his burial. In 1905, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of
48-520: A religious scholar dedicated to Islam and the first Qazi in the area. Mirza Hadi Baig was from a royal household of Mirza of the Mughal Empire . He migrated from Samarkand and settled in Punjab where he was granted a vast tract of land comprising 80 villages by the emperor Babur . Because of his religious beliefs, he named the center of the 80 villages Islam Pur Qazi and governed from there. Over time,
72-488: A very small population, it has many notable historical, religious and political figures; Mirza Hadi Baig Mirza Hadi Beg ( Persian : میرزا هادي بیگ ; fl. 1530 CE) was an Indian nobleman and Qadi (Islamic judge) of Central Asian origin and a direct ancestor of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement. He migrated from Samarqand , in what is today Uzbekistan , to northern India and settled in
96-642: Is a city and a municipal council in Gurdaspur district , north-east of Amritsar , situated 18 kilometres (11 mi) north-east of Batala city in the state of Punjab, India . Qadian is the birthplace of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement within Islam . It remained the headquarters of the Ahmadiyya movement until the Partition of India in 1947. Qadian was established in 1530 by Mirza Hadi Baig ,
120-709: Is connected through its railway station , which was built back in November 1928. It is located in the Darul Barakat area and served by the 'Mela special line', a 55-kilometer track, linking it to Amritsar via Batala , with a proposed Qadian-Beas Line which was sanctioned back in 2011. The city is part of the Qadian Assembly Constituency . Prior to the Partition of India , two major educational institutes in Qadian were established. The Talim-ul-Islam High School
144-640: The Kulu valley , Peshawar and Hazara . A remote and unknown town, Qadian emerged as a centre of religious learning in 1889, when Mirza Ghulam Ahmad established the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community . In 1891 it became the venue for the Community's annual gatherings. Qadian remained the administrative headquarters and capital of the Ahmadiyya Caliphate until the partition of India in 1947, when much of
168-643: The River Beas and named it Islampur. He was granted a large tract of land comprising several hundred villages that together resembled a semi-independent territory by the imperial court of Babur and was also appointed the Qadhi (magistrate) of the surrounding district thereby giving him legal jurisdiction ( Qadiyat ) over the area. As the village was associated with the seat of the Qadhi, it came to be known as Islampur-Qazi . This name evolved into various forms based on cognates and
192-602: The Transoxianian region of Kish (modern Shahrisabz , some 80 km south of Samarqand ). Following Timur's rise to power within the tribe and amidst his conflict with Hajji Beg as leader of the Barlas, the family fled, with other members of the tribe, to Khorasan where they remained until the 16th century. In the early part of this century, Mirza Hadi Beg returned to the homeland of his ancestors and settled in Samarqand but left
216-402: The 2011 Census of India Hinduism is the largest religion in Qadian, with significant populations of the adherents of Sikhism and Islam . The table below shows the population of different religious groups in Qadian city and their gender ratio , as of 2011 census. Today in Qadian, there are 11 mosques belonging to the Ahmadiyya community most of which date before the partition. Initially
240-554: The Ahmadiyya Community, wrote a publication titled Al-Wassiyat ( English : The Will). In it, he describes establishing a cemetery for members of the community who are more spiritual than materialistic. At the time, finding a suitable piece of land in and around Qadian was costly, and, as such, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad proposed a piece of land from his own property. He also proposed that for anyone to be buried in Bahishti Maqbara,
264-718: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the word "Muslim" was later erased on the orders of a local magistrate under Ordinance XX which declares Ahmadis non-Muslims. After his death on 21 November 1996, over 13,000 visited to pay their last respects and over 30,000 people attended his funeral prayers. Muhammad Zafarullah Khan , Pakistan's first Asian president of the International Court of Justice is also buried in Bahishti Maqbara, Rabwah. Qadian, India Qadian ( Punjabi pronunciation: [käːd̪ijä̃ː] ; Hindustani pronunciation: [qɑːd̪ijɑ̃ːn] )
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#1733093314327288-503: The Ahmadiyya belief of Heaven is parallel to rest of the entire Muslim Ummah's belief of Heaven/paradise. To date, there are two cemeteries dedicated as Bahisti Maqbara. The first is located in Qadian , India and the second, in Rabwah , Pakistan . On 26 May 1908, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad died and was taken by train to Batala . From there, he was carried to Qadian where he was eventually buried in Bahisti Maqbara. Thousands of members of
312-486: The Community migrated to Pakistan. Following the partition, Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad , the second Khalifa of the Community, carefully oversaw the safe migration of Ahmadis from Qadian to the newly founded state, instructing 313 men, including two of his own sons, to stay in Qadian and guard the sites holy to Ahmadis, conferring upon them the title darveshān-i qādiyān (the dervishes of Qadian) and eventually moving
336-553: The Punjab during the 16th century. Hadi Beg was a collateral kin of Babur , the founding emperor of the Mughal dynasty in the Indian subcontinent, but was not a Timurid . Mirza Hadi Beg was a Barlas nobleman and scholar and a direct descendant of Hajji Beg Barlas , a paternal relative of Timur , the 14th century ruler of Persia and Central Asia . The Barlas were originally a prominent Turco-Mongol tribe who controlled territories in
360-479: The city in 1530, perhaps due to domestic dissensions or an affliction, and moved along with his family and a retinue of two hundred persons consisting of servants and followers to northern India where the emperor Babur had recently established the Mughal dynasty . During the final year of Babur 's reign, Mirza Hadi Beg and his family settled in the Punjab where Hadi Beg established a walled and fortified village near
384-408: The community arrived in Qadian for funeral prayers while prominent leaders within the community unanimously agreed Hakeem Noor-ud-Din should lead the community as the first successor to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. As Khalifatul Masih , Hakeem Noor-ud-Din led the funeral prayer for Mirza Ghulam Ahmad the same day. Although the original cemetery was established in Qadian , after the partition of India when
408-602: The community moved its headquarters to Rabwah (Pakistan), another branch of the cemetery was established there. Frequently visited sites in the cemetery include the grave of Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad and Mirza Nasir Ahmad , the second and third Caliphs of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and successor of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad . Nobel laureate Abdus Salam was buried in Bahishti Maqbara, Rabwah next to his parents' graves. The epitaph on his tomb initially read "First Muslim Nobel Laureate" but due to Salam's adherence to
432-400: The following three requirements be fulfilled: #Whoever desires to be buried in this graveyard should contribute towards the expenses of its maintenance according to his capacity. It is often alleged that Bahishti Maqbara is an Ahmadiyya-created/influenced heaven or Paradise; however, this is not the case as 'The Heavenly Gardens' is only the name of a cemetery and must be made clear that
456-529: The headquarters to Rabwah , Pakistan. The term Qadiani is used as a slur to refer to Ahmadi Muslims, primarily in Pakistan. Qadian is located at 31°49′N 75°23′E / 31.82°N 75.39°E / 31.82; 75.39 . It has an average elevation of 250 metres (820 feet). Qadian has a population of 23,632. Males constituted 54% of the population and females 46%. Qadian has an average literacy rate of 75%, slightly higher than
480-528: The local dialect, until Islampur was dropped altogether, and it came to be known simply as Qadian , the name by which it is still known today. Mirza Hadi Beg’s descendants were known as the Begzada family and held Qadian for over 300 years maintaining close relations with the Mughal rulers and holding important offices within the imperial government. At its height, the family commanded a force of 7,000 soldiers under
504-472: The majority of the mosques were based on the Urdu neighbourhood names (with the exception of Aqsa Mosque and Mubarak Mosque ), but many have been renamed, following their renovation in 2012. Further, three mosques existed prior to the partition, but have since been occupied, namely: Outside of Qadian, in the neighbouring areas, an additional four mosques of Kahlwan and Nangal Bagbana exist, namely: Qadian
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#1733093314327528-615: The name of the town changed to Qazi Maji , then Qadi , and eventually it became known as 'Qadian'. Qadian and the surrounding areas later fell to the Ramgarhia Sikhs under the leadership of Jassa Singh Ramgarhia who offered the ruling Qazis, two villages which they refused. In 1834, during the rule of Maharaja Ranjit Singh , the region consisting of Qadian and five adjoining villages was given to Mirza Ghulam Murtaza , father of Ghulam Ahmad in return for military support in Kashmir , Mahadi,
552-514: The national average of 74.04%: male literacy is 78%, and female literacy is 70%. 10% of the population is under 6 years of age. Most of the residents of Qadian are speakers of the Punjabi language . A significant minority, about a 1/10 of the population, also speak the Urdu language. In areas like Mohallah Ahmadiyya , Urdu signs are a common sight. Languages by the number of speakers in Qadian according to
576-549: Was founded in 1889, and the Talim-ul-Islam College was founded in 1898. During the partition, these institutes were forcibly occupied and the college was converted and continues to operate as the Sikh National College. Today around 13 educational institutes exist consisting of several public schools, along with a number of private educational institutes such as: Although Qadian is relatively remote and has
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