On February 13th, 1835, in the small Indian village of Qadian, a man named Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad^(as) was born. He belonged to a well-known and noble family.

All religions contain prophecies that foretell the advent of a special individual, who will come as a reformer in the latter days. In Islam, Muslims await a promised Mahdi and Messiah. The advent of the Promised Messiah(as) was prophesized by the Holy Prophet(sa) himself. According to a tradition, the Holy Prophet^(sa) was sitting among his companions, two verses from Surah al Jum’uah were revealed, 

“He it is Who has raised among the unlettered people a Messenger from among themselves who recites unto them His Signs, and purifies them, and teaches them the Book and Wisdom though before that they were in manifest error; And He will raise him among others of them who have not yet joined them. He is the Mighty, the Wise.” (62:3-4) 

One of the companions of the Holy Prophet(sa) questioned to who this verse relates to, and the Prophet of Islam(sa) replied while putting his hand on Salman(ra), a Persian man,  “If faith were to go up to the Pleiades, a man from among these would surely find it.” (Bukhari).  Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad(as) is that Promised Reformer of the later age.