Allama Iqbal was a contemporary of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad one of the greatest thinkers of British India in his era, and he had much to say about the Qadianis during the 1930's.
"I consider all the Hadith reports relating to the Mahdi and the concepts of Messiah-ship and Mujaddids to be the result of Persian and other non-Arab philosophies. They have nothing to do with Arab thought or the true spirit of the Quran." (written in 1932) (Iqbal Nama, Part II, Makatib Iqbal, (Muhammad Ashraf, Lahore, 1951), pp. 230-232, Letter no. 87)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allama_Iqbal
Iqbal and the Ahmadiyya
- Article by Tahira Parwez
- Ghulam Qadir - uncle of Allama Iqbal who was a follower of the Ahmadiyya
- Letter to Nehru
- Letter to The Statesman
- Included in Zarb-Kaleem is his poem "Mahdi" in which he first alludes to what Nietzsche did for German nation as if he was 'Mahdi' for his people and then says:
اے وہ کہ تو مہدي کے تخيل سے ہے بيزار
نوميد نہ کر آہوئے مشکيں سے ختن کو
To Mahdi's concept you seem averse,
Too fed up with this thought appear
This view for Muslims has the weight
That for Cathay has musk of deer.