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The Claim
"I recently watched the documentary of Dr. Abdus Salam and in this documentary, we saw Zia ul Haqq and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. They are two opponents of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, both destroyed by Allah the Almighty. We are all aware of the destruction of Zia ul Haqq, but many forget that the death of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was actually a fulfillment of a prophecy of Hadhrat Ahmad (as). He was an opponent of the Jamaat and heavily persecuted Ahmadi Muslims. During his reign, many Ahmadi Muslim homes were looted and burned and many Ahmadi Muslims lost their lives. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto took the credit for declaring Ahmadi Muslims non Muslims. He was then charged for the abetment of the murder of a political opponent in 1974 and then hanged on April 4, 1979, despite many pleas for clemency by countries all over the world. Bhuttos age at this time was 51 years and 3 months which fulfilled the following prophecy of Hadhrat Ahmad (as): كَلْبٌ يَموتُ على كَلْبٍ
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" That is [Arabic] He is a dog and he will die according to the value of the letters in the word kalb [dog], which amounts to fifty-two."
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Hadhrat Ahmad (as) explained: This means that his age will not exceed fifty-two years and that he will die within the course of his fifty second year. [Izala-e-Auham, pp. 186–187, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 3, p. 190]
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Hadhur (as) explained that the letters in the word dog points to the age of a specific person. "كلب" the Arabic word for dog amounts to 52. This prophecy was fulfilled word to word eighty eight years after the prophecy was made. Hadhrat Ahmad(as) was not even aware of Bhutto yet Allah Revealed such a grand prophecy to him."
Refutation
The reality is Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was born on January 5th, 1928 and was
executed by means of hanging in April, 4, 1979. This made him 51 years
and 3 months at the time of his death contradicting the claim he was to
die within the course of his 52nd year. Even if he did die at age 52, it
would not be significant whatsoever as Mirza Ghulam Ahmad never
specified who this “dog” is and what he would do. If one takes the term
“dog” as meaning great enemy or opponent is it not possible for some
other great future opponent of Ahmadiyya dying at the age of 52? He said
"That is he is a dog...." -- who is a dog? What? How is a prophecy when
you don't even specify what you're talking about? MGA deliberately left
vague, Nostradamus-tier "prophecies" like this so that he could
retroactively spin them to fit any situation that had passed. This is
what 100% of MGA's "prophecies" (the ones that didn't flop outright)
amount to. To call this a "prophecy" is a travesty of justice.
Furthermore, Ahmadis always say "prophecies" are conditional -- meaning,
if it flops, "oh, it was conditional, so it's okay because the
conditions weren't fulfilled." This makes the business of "prophecies"
utterly pointless in the Ahmadiyya context.
If he had said "there will be an opponent named Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who
will die at the age of 52," that would have been a prophecy. But of
course he never said anything like that.
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