Mirza Ghulam Ahmad had a group of semi-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 superstitious and these grew to a few hundred by the mid-1890s. More on numbers below.
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
See Prominent People who Left the Cult
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.
For more information on numbers, also see Ahmadiyya as a Cult
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| Page: Babu Ilahi Baksh (Q Archives) Labels: followers, dissenters |
| Page: Mir Abbas Ali Shah (Q Archives) Labels: followers, friends, opponents, left, english, 1891 |
| Page: Mirza Khuda Bakhsh (Q Archives) Labels: followers |
| Page: Ghulam Qadir (Q Archives) Labels: followers |
| Page: Mufti Muhammad Sadiq (Q Archives) Labels: followers, usa |
| Page: Mian Muhammad Khan (Q Archives) Labels: followers |
| Page: Ghulam Muhammad (Q Archives) Labels: followers |
| Page: Khawaja Kamal-ud-Din (Q Archives) Labels: followers, lahori, uk |
| Page: Abdul Kareem Sialkoti (Q Archives) Labels: followers, notice, of, his |
| Page: Followers (Q Archives) Labels: followers |
| Page: Prominent People who Left the Cult (Q Archives) Labels: cult, followers, families |