Promised Messiah Day (, ) is commemorated by members of the Ahmadiyya Muslims annually on March 23 which marked the day when

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (13 February 1835 – 26 May 1908) was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. He claimed to have been divinely appointed as the promised Messiah and '' Mahdī'', in fulfillment of th ...

whom the Ahmadis consider as the Promised Messiah took

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from forty members in Ludhiana, Punjab, and initiated the movement.

Origin

On March 23, 1889, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the

Ahmadiyya Ahmadiyya, officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ), is an Islamic messianic movement originating in British India in the late 19th century. It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who said he had been divinely appointed a ...

branch of Islam.

References

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