Mīrzā Ghulām Aḥmad Birth Anniversary

 

Mīrzā Ghulām Aḥmad, born on 13 February 1835, was Indian  Indian Muslim leader who founded an Islamic religious movement known as Ahmadiyyah.

The son of a prosperous family, Ghulām Aḥmad received an education in Persian and Arabic. He initially refused his father’s urgings that he go into British government service or practice law. However, because of his father’s persistence, he served as a government clerk in Sialkot from 1864 until 1868. Ghulām Aḥmad led a life of contemplation and religious study. He claimed to hear revelations and declared in 1889 that he had received one in which God had entitled him to receive bayʿat (an oath of allegiance). Soon he gathered a small group of devoted disciples. From then on his influence and following steadily increased, as did opposition from the mainstream Islamic community

Ghulām Aḥmad claimed not only that he was the mahdi  (a promised Muslim “saviour”) and a reappearance (burūz) of the Prophet Muhammad but also that he was Jesus Christ  and the Hindu God Krishna returned to earth. A number of his rather unorthodox teachings were incorporated into the beliefs of the Aḥmadiyyah.

After Ghulām Aḥmad’s death, his followers disputed whether he had really claimed to be a prophet and, if so, what he meant by his prophethood. Nonetheless, his devotees formed a community of believers and elected a caliph to lead them. Ghulām Aḥmad’s most famous work is Barāhīn al-Aḥmadiyyah (“Proofs of the Ahmadi Faith”; 1880).

Suraj Mal Birth Anniversary

 

Suraj Mal, born on 13 February 1707, was a Jat ruler of Bharatpur in present-day state of Rajasthan. Under him, the Jat rule covered the present-day districts of Agra, Aligarh, Bharatpur, Dholpur, Etawa, Hathras, Mainpuri, Mathura, and Rohtak.

Sarojini Naidu Birth Anniversary

 

Sarojini Naidu, the Nightingale of India, was born on 13 February 1879 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. She has many firsts to her credit, including being the first Indian woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state. The eldest daughter of Aghornath Chattopadhyaya and Barada Sundari Devi, she was fluent in many languages.

Hug Day

Hug Day (February 12) is celebrated on the sixth day of the Valentine's Week and comes two days before Valentine's Day. On this day, people express their love and affection for their partner with an intimate hug.

Hugging can not only release your stress, unburden your heart but also fill you with warmth and positivity.

Charles Freer Andrews Birth Anniversary

 

Charles Freer Andrews, born on 12 February 1871, was a priest of the Church of England. A Christian missionary, educator and social reformer in India, he became a close friend of Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi and identified with the cause of India's independence. He was instrumental in convincing Gandhi to return to India from South Africa, where Gandhi had been a leading light in the Indian civil rights struggle.

Abraham Lincoln Birth Anniversary

 

Abraham Lincoln, born on 12 February 1809, was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States (1861–1865) and died in office upon his assassination. Lincoln led the nation through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis in the bloody American Civil War. He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the U.S. economy.

Dayanand Saraswati Birth Anniversary

 

Dayanand Saraswati, born on 12 February 1824, was an Indian philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of the Vedic dharma. He was the first to give the call for Swaraj as "India for Indians" in 1876, a call later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak. Denouncing the idolatry and ritualistic worship prevalent in British India at the time, he worked towards reviving Vedic ideologies. Subsequently, the philosopher and President of India, S. Radhakrishnan called him one of the "makers of Modern India", as did Sri Aurobindo.