Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and Spontaneous Generation of Insects

 

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In the Name of Allah, the Rahman, the Merciful

الصلاة والسلام عليك يا خاتم النبيين

Prayers and peace be upon you, Seal of the Prophets

The false prophet and Antichrist Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, in attempting to belittle the miraculous virgin birth of Jesus Christ, compared it to what he considered the spontaneous generation of insects:

مسیح کا بن باپ پیدا ہونا میری نگاہ میں کچھ عجوبہ بات نہیں۔ حضرت آدم ماں اور باپ دونوں نہیں رکھتے تھے۔ اب قریب برسات آتی ہے ضرور باہر جاکہ دیکھیں کہ کتنے کیڑے مکوڑے بغیر ماں باپ کے پیدا ہو جاتے ہیں۔

It is not strange in my eyes that Christ was born without a father. Adam did not have both a mother and a father. Now that the rains are coming, definitely go outside and see how many insects are born without parents (Ruhani Khaza’in, v.6, pp.280-281; Jang-i-Muqaddas, pp.198-199)

برسات کے دنوں میں ہزارہا کیڑے مکوڑے خود بخود پیدا ہو جاتے ہیں اور حضرت آدم علیہ السلام بھی بغیر ماں باپ کے پیدا ہوۓ تو پھر حضرت عیسی کی اس پیدائش سے کوئی بزرگی ان کی ثابت نہیں ہوتی بلکہ بغیر باپ کے پیدا ہونا بعض قوی سے محروم ہونے پر دلالت کرتا ہے۔

Thousands of insects are born spontaneously during rainy days, and Prophet Adam (peace be upon him) was born without parents, so then the birth of Prophet Jesus (peace be upon him) does not prove his greatness. Rather, being born without a father indicates that he was deprived of some powers (Ruhani Khaza’in, v.20, p.356; Chashma-i-Masihi, pp.27-28)

Now the idea that insects are generated spontaneously from non-living matter is simply untrue scientifically speaking. The false prophet Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was simply unaware of scientific facts and reiterated a myth of ignorant, uneducated people that has been decisively disproved. Mirza of Qadian constantly expressed his contempt for the real Messiah, Jesus, peace be upon him, and this is yet another instance of that where he compares his virgin birth to the supposed spontaneous generation of bugs and even makes a swipe at him being born without a father, claiming that individuals born without a father are deprived of certain faculties! The blasphemy of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad against Jesus Christ in comparing his virgin birth to the spontaneous generation of insects is therefore compounded by the fact that spontaneous generation of insects is an unscientific myth.

In these quotations, Mirza of Qadian stated that Adam was born without father or mother, an argument presented from the Holy Quran:

اِنَّ مَثَلَ عِیۡسٰی عِنۡدَ اللّٰہِ کَمَثَلِ اٰدَمَ ؕ خَلَقَہٗ مِنۡ تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَہٗ کُنۡ فَیَکُوۡنُ

Verily, the example of Jesus in the sight of Allah is like the example of Adam. He created him from soil then said to him, “Be!” so he became

(Surah 3:59)

Yet it appears that Mirza of Qadian only used the argument of Adam being born without any parents in order to refute the Christians, otherwise he suggested elsewhere that Adam was not the first human nor are all humans today descended from that Adam:

ہم اس بات کے قائل نہیں ہیں اور نہ ہی اس مسئلہ میں ہم توریت کی پیروی کرتے ہیں کہ چھ سات ہزار سال سے ہی جب سے یہ آدم پیدا ہوا تھا اس دنیا کا آغاز ہوا ہے اور اس سے پہلے کچھ بھی نہ تھا اور خدا گویا معطل تھا اور نہ ہی ہم اس بات کے مدعی ہیں کہ یہ تمام نسل انسانی جو اس وقت دنیا کے مختلف حصوں میں موجود ہے یہ اسی آخری آدم کی نسل ہے۔ ہم تو اس آدم سے پہلے بھی نسل انسانی کے قائل ہیں

آدم سے پہلےبھی مخلوق موجود تھی۔ پس امریکہ اور آسٹریلیا وغیرہ کے لوگوں کے متعلق ہم کچھ نہیں کہہ سکتے کہ وہ اس آخری آدم کی اولاد میں سے ہیں یا کہ کسی دوسرے آدم کی اولاد میں سے ہیں۔

We do not believe, nor do we follow the Torah in this matter, that this world began six or seven thousand years ago, when Adam was born, and that before that there was nothing and God was suspended, nor do we claim that all the human race that currently exists in different parts of the world is the offspring of this last Adam. We believe that the human race existed even before this Adam. Creation existed even before Adam. So, we cannot say anything about the people of America and Australia, etc., that they are the offspring of this last Adam or the offspring of some other Adam (Malfuzat, 1984 edition, p.432)

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad suggested that perhaps the Amerindians and the Australian Aborigines are not the offspring of our Adam, but descended from an earlier population of humans that are of another Adam!