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Salaam!
I would like to share something with you all! I thought this table of 'Religious Affiliation of History's 100 Most Influential People', would be of interest to the Ahmadis out there! "Note that many influential philosophies (such as Marxist Communism or Confucianism) are not always classified as organized "religions" in the traditional sense, but are classified as such by sociologists because they are a primary motivational worldview for individuals, cultures or subcultures." So if they can make the grade as below, then I am 99.9% that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement, will definitely be on this list! He just has to be! He is after all, the Messiah of all Religions, as promised to mankind! He is the founder of a dymanic, fast growing international movement in Islam, with members exceeding tens of millions!
Anyways, let's see if we can Spot Mirza! Think 'Where's Wally' but a 'Mirza Manhunt' instead! Ready? Yay!
Taken from Michael Hart's book: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History:
| 1 | Muhammad | Islam | Prophet of Islam; conqueror of Arabia; Hart recognized that ranking Muhammad first might be controversial, but felt that, from a secular historian's perspective, this was the correct choice because Muhammad is the only man to have been both a founder of a major world religion and a major military/political leader. More |
| 2 | Isaac Newton | Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e., Athanasianism; believed in the Arianism of the Primitive Church) | physicist; theory of universal gravitation; laws of motion |
| 3 | Jesus Christ * | Judaism; Christianity | founder of Christianity |
| 4 | Buddha | Hinduism; Buddhism | founder of Buddhism |
| 5 | Confucius | Confucianism | founder of Confucianism |
| 6 | St. Paul | Judaism; Christianity | proselytizer of Christianity |
| 7 | Ts'ai Lun | Chinese traditional religion | inventor of paper |
| 8 | Johann Gutenberg | Catholic | developed movable type; printed Bibles |
| 9 | Christopher Columbus | Catholic | explorer; led Europe to Americas |
| 10 | Albert Einstein | Jewish | physicist; relativity; Einsteinian physics |
| 11 | Louis Pasteur | Catholic | scientist; pasteurization |
| 12 | Galileo Galilei | Catholic | astronomer; accurately described heliocentric solar system |
| 13 | Aristotle | Platonism / Greek philosophy | influential Greek philosopher |
| 14 | Euclid | Platonism / Greek philosophy | mathematician; Euclidian geometry |
| 15 | Moses | Judaism | major prophet of Judaism |
| 16 | Charles Darwin | Anglican (nominal); Unitarian | biologist; described Darwinian evolution, which had theological impact on many religions |
| 17 | Shih Huang Ti | Chinese traditional religion | Chinese emperor |
| 18 | Augustus Caesar | Roman state paganism | ruler |
| 19 | Nicolaus Copernicus | Catholic (priest) | astronomer; taught heliocentricity |
| 20 | Antoine Laurent Lavoisier | Catholic | father of modern chemistry; philosopher; economist |
| 21 | Constantine the Great | Roman state paganism; Christianity | Roman emperor who completely legalized Christianity, leading to its status as state religion. Convened the First Council of Nicaea that produced the Nicene Creed, which rejected Arianism (one of two major strains of Christian thought) and established Athanasianism (Trinitarianism, the other strain) as "official doctrine." |
| 22 | James Watt | Presbyterian (lapsed) | developed steam engine |
| 23 | Michael Faraday | Sandemanian | physicist; chemist; discovery of magneto-electricity |
| 24 | James Clerk Maxwell | Presbyterian; Anglican; Baptist | physicist; electromagnetic spectrum |
| 25 | Martin Luther | Catholic; Lutheran | founder of Protestantism and Lutheranism |
| 26 | George Washington | Episcopalian | first president of United States |
| 27 | Karl Marx | Jewish; Lutheran; Atheist; Marxism/Communism | founder of Marxism, Marxist Communism |
| 28 | Orville and Wilbur Wright | United Brethren | inventors of airplane |
| 29 | Genghis Khan | Mongolian shamanism | Mongol conqueror |
| 30 | Adam Smith | Liberal Protestant | economist; philosopher; expositor of capitalism; author: The Theory of Moral Sentiments |
| 31 | Edward de Vere a.k.a. William Shakespeare | Catholic; Anglican | literature; also wrote 6 volumes about philosophy and religion |
| 32 | John Dalton | Quaker | chemist; physicist; atomic theory; law of partial pressures (Dalton's law) |
| 33 | Alexander the Great | Greek state paganism | conqueror |
| 34 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Catholic (nominal) | French conqueror |
| 35 | Thomas Edison | Congregationalist; agnostic | inventor of light bulb, phonograph, etc. |
| 36 | Antony van Leeuwenhoek | Dutch Reformed | microscopes; studied microscopic life |
| 37 | William T.G. Morton | ?? | pioneer in anesthesiology |
| 38 | Guglielmo Marconi | Catholic and Anglican | inventor of radio |
| 39 | Adolf Hitler | Nazism; born/raised in, but rejected Catholicism | conqueror; led Axis Powers in WWII |
| 40 | Plato | Platonism / Greek philosophy | founder of Platonism |
| 41 | Oliver Cromwell | Puritan (Protestant) | British political and military leader |
| 42 | Alexander Graham Bell | Unitarian/Universalist | inventor of telephone * |
| 43 | Alexander Fleming | Catholic | penicillin; advances in bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy |
| 44 | John Locke | raised Puritan (Anglican); Liberal Christian | philosopher and liberal theologian |
| 45 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Catholic | composer |
| 46 | Werner Heisenberg | Lutheran | a founder of quantum mechanics; discovered principle of uncertainty; head of Nazi Germany's nuclear program |
| 47 | Louis Daguerre | ?? | an inventor/pioneer of photography |
| 48 | Simon Bolivar | Catholic (nominal); Atheist | National hero of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia |
| 49 | Rene Descartes | Catholic | Rationalist philosopher and mathematician |
| 50 | Michelangelo | Catholic | painter; sculptor; architect |
| 51 | Pope Urban II | Catholic | called for First Crusade |
| 52 | 'Umar ibn al-Khattab | Islam | Second Caliph; expanded Muslim empire |
| 53 | Asoka | Buddhism | king of India who converted to and spread Buddhism |
| 54 | St. Augustine | Greek state paganism; Manicheanism; Catholic | Early Christian theologian |
| 55 | William Harvey | Anglican (nominal) | described the circulation of blood; wrote Essays on the Generation of Animals, the basis for modern embryology |
| 56 | Ernest Rutherford | ?? | physicist; pioneer of subatomic physics |
| 57 | John Calvin | Protestant; Calvinism | Protestant reformer; founder of Calvinism |
| 58 | Gregor Mendel | Catholic (Augustinian monk) | Mendelian genetics |
| 59 | Max Planck | Protestant | physicist; thermodynamics |
| 60 | Joseph Lister | Quaker | principal discoverer of antiseptics which greatly reduced surgical mortality |
| 61 | Nikolaus August Otto | ?? | built first four-stroke internal combustion engine |
| 62 | Francisco Pizarro | Catholic | Spanish conqueror in South America; defeated Incas |
| 63 | Hernando Cortes | Catholic | conquered Mexico for Spain; through war and introduction of new diseases he largely destroyed Aztec civilization |
| 64 | Thomas Jefferson | Episcopalian; Deist | 3rd president of United States |
| 65 | Queen Isabella I | Catholic | Spanish ruler |
| 66 | Joseph Stalin | Russian Orthodox; Atheist; Marxism | revolutionary and ruler of USSR |
| 67 | Julius Caesar | Roman state paganism | Roman emperor |
| 68 | William the Conqueror | Catholic | laid foundation of modern England |
| 69 | Sigmund Freud | Jewish; atheist; Freudian psychology/psychoanalysis | founded Freudian school of psychology/psychoanalysis (i.e., the "religion of Freudianism") |
| 70 | Edward Jenner | Anglican | discoverer of the vaccination for smallpox |
| 71 | Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen | ?? | discovered X-rays |
| 72 | Johann Sebastian Bach | Lutheran; Catholic | composer |
| 73 | Lao Tzu | Taoism | founder of Taoism |
| 74 | Voltaire | raised in Jansenism; later Deist | writer and philosopher; wrote Candide |
| 75 | Johannes Kepler | Lutheran | astronomer; planetary motions |
| 76 | Enrico Fermi | Catholic | initiated the atomic age; father of atom bomb |
| 77 | Leonhard Euler | Calvinist | physicist; mathematician; differential and integral calculus and algebra |
| 78 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | born Protestant; converted as a teen to Catholic; later Deist | French deistic philosopher and author |
| 79 | Nicoli Machiavelli | Catholic | wrote The Prince (influential political treatise) |
| 80 | Thomas Malthus | Anglican (cleric) | economist; wrote Essay on the Principle of Population |
| 81 | John F. Kennedy | Catholic | U.S. President who led first successful effort by humans to travel to another "planet" |
| 82 | Gregory Pincus | Jewish | endocrinologist; developed birth-control pill |
| 83 | Mani | Manicheanism | founder of Manicheanism, once a world religion which rivaled Christianity in strength |
| 84 | Lenin | Russian Orthodox; Atheist; Marxism/Communism | Russian ruler |
| 85 | Sui Wen Ti | Chinese traditional religion | unified China |
| 86 | Vasco da Gama | Catholic | navigator; discovered route from Europe to India around Cape Hood |
| 87 | Cyrus the Great | Zoroastrianism | founder of Persian empire |
| 88 | Peter the Great | Russian Orthodox | forged Russia into a great European nation |
| 89 | Mao Zedong | Atheist; Communism; Maoism | founder of Maoism, Chinese form of Communism |
| 90 | Francis Bacon | Anglican | philosopher; delineated inductive scientific method |
| 91 | Henry Ford | Protestant | developed automobile; achievement in manufacturing and assembly |
| 92 | Mencius | Confucianism | philosopher; founder of a school of Confucianism |
| 93 | Zoroaster | Zoroastrianism | founder of Zoroastrianism |
| 94 | Queen Elizabeth I | Anglican | British monarch; restored Church of England to power after Queen Mary |
| 95 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Russian Orthodox | Russian premier who helped end Communism in USSR |
| 96 | Menes | Egyptian paganism | unified Upper and Lower Egypt |
| 97 | Charlemagne | Catholic | Holy Roman Empire created with his baptism in 800 AD |
| 98 | Homer | Greek paganism | epic poet |
| 99 | Justinian I | Catholic | Roman emperor; reconquered Mediterranean empire; accelerated Catholic-Monophysite schism |
| 100 | Mahavira | Hinduism; Jainism | founder of Jainism |
Oooops! No Mirza Ghulam Ahmad! Where is he hiding? Oh, thats right, he isn't hiding because no one has ever heard of him! Great Messiah he turned out to be! Have you guys read the Ahadith on the Messiah? The Mahdi? I suggest you do and then realise that HAD they come, there is no way would have been missed off this list!
I mean even Adolf Flammin' Hitler manages to make the cut, so has some Homer Simpson of Greek Paganism, so where is Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi? Why has he failed to make such an impact, that even a random author of a random book failed to pick up on him, but chooses to mention Menes? The guy who invented X Rays is there, but the guy who was the awaited One with Allah by his side isn't? Still, it is great to see Hart recognising the status of the Prophet Muhammad SAAWS! How come his subordinate, most ardent devotee isn't on there with him? How come the original Jesus is on there, but his 2nd coming isn't? Common Sense..lets use it!
I know its just a random list but come on now, if JFK can make the grade, why hasn't Allah's promised one? You would think Mr Hart, the guy behind the list, would have at least had the common courtesy to put MGA above JFK! Surely he would have come to heard about him from somewhere!
Oh the shame! Even Leader of the Nations and Ameerul Momi'neen Mirza Masroor Ahmad, head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Faith, didn't even cut the mustard! I have looked for Mirza Mas Ahmad everywhere on this list (2011) and cannot find him! Can you find Mas?
Watkins: The 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People
| 1. Eckhart Tolle | 34. Joseph Alois Ratzinger | 67. John Bradshaw |
| 2. Dalai Lama | 35. Krishna Das | 68. Jeff Foster |
| 3. Dr Wayne W. Dyer | 36. Drunvalo Melchizedek | 69. Patrick Holford |
| 4. Thich Nhat Hanh | 37. Sai Baba | 70. Andrew Cohen |
| 5. Deepak Chopra | 38. Jack Kornfield | 71. Vladimir Megre |
| 6. Louise L. Hay | 39. Pema Chödrön | 72. Thomas Cleary |
| 7. Paulo Coelho | 40. T.K.V. Desikachar | 73. Daniel Pinchbeck |
| 8. Oprah Winfrey | 41. Esther & Jerry Hicks | 74. Jonathan Goldman |
| 9. Ken Wilber | 42. Dan Brown | 75. Sonia Choquette |
| 10. Rhonda Byrne | 43. Z’ev Ben Shimon Halevi | 76. Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
| 11. James Redfield | 44. Diana Cooper | 77. Mother Meera |
| 12. Neale Donald Walsch | 45. Ram Dass | 78. Barefoot Doctor |
| 13. Doreen Virtue | 46. Andrew Weil | 79. Richard Bandler |
| 14. Alejandro Jodorowsky | 47. Satya Narayan Goenka | 80. Robert Bly |
| 15. Richard Bach | 48. Jon Kabat-Zinn | 81. Adyashanti |
| 16. Alex Grey | 49. Alan Moore | 82. Sogyal Rinpoche |
| 17. Byron Katie | 50. Dan Millman | 83. Li Hongzhi |
| 18. Masaru Emoto | 51. Bruce Lipton | 84. Sri Bhagavan |
| 19. Nelson Mandela | 52. Peter Kingsley | 85. Rupert Sheldrake |
| 20. Bernie Siegel | 53. Karen Armstrong | 86. John & Caitlín Matthews |
| 21. Caroline Myss | 54. Judy Hall | 87. Chogyal Namkhai Norbu |
| 22. Brian Weiss | 55. Colin Wilson | 88. Kenneth Grant* |
| 23. Mantak Chia | 56. Joscelyn Godwin | 89. Stanislav Grof |
| 24. John Gray | 57. James Lovelock | 90. James Hillman |
| 25. Gregg Braden | 58. Satish Kumar | 91. Clarissa Pinkola Estés |
| 26. Stephen R. Covey | 59. Shakti Gawain | 92. Stephen Levine |
| 27. Marianne Williamson | 60. Elaine Pagels | 93. Candace Pert |
| 28. Desmond Tutu | 61. Kyozan Joshu Sasaki | 94. Barbara Ann Brennan |
| 29. Mata Amritanandamayi | 62. Gary Zukav | 95. Coleman Barks |
| 30. Philip Berg | 63. Erich von Däniken | 96. Robert Thurman |
| 31. Ervin Laszlo | 64. David Deida | 97. B.K.S Iyengar |
| 32. Andrew Harvey | 65. Oberto Airaudi ‘Falcon’ | 98. William Bloom |
| 33. Don Miguel Ruiz | 66. Stuart Wilde | 99. Lynne McTaggart |
| (for full details read the 100 List in the Watkins Review #26) | 100. Marion Woodman | |
WOW! Ahmadiyyat really is making its mark on the world! What a revolution this has turned out to be! Mind blowing! Earth Shattering! Wow! Just Wow!
Yeah I know, they are lists that mean nothing but considering the depth of the claims of Mirza and his family and had they been true; I would, as a rational thinker, expect at least one of them to be on either of the two lists! Oh and Ahmadis before you say 'oh that's just a white man list', remember the 'white man list' has mentioned prominent Muslims and isn't it the white man with whom you have first class relations with? Well then....! A number of Indian/Hindus made the second list; they come from the land of Mirza Ghulam and still managed to outdo him and his living Khalifa! How does that figure?
OK we all know how uninspiring that bumbling oaf of a 'Khalifa' Mas is, so maybe the world renowned Mirza Tahir Ahmad could have made the first list? Mind you, he isn't so world renowned is he? LOL. And oh the shame, the only few figures the Jamaat of Scamadiyya has under its belt: Dr. Abdus Salaam and Ch. Muhammad Zafrullah Khan, failed to make their mark too! LOL. Ahmadiyya is of no significance to the world... but the Ahmadiyya leads its followers to believe the world spins around them and everything happens because of them! Earthquakes, floods and wars, you name it, it is because of them! Guess what? No one cares! There is a world outside of the Cult!
I think I have found the reason Mirza Masroor Ahmad failed to make the list (be warned, it might make you drowsy)! Click here to see the Uninspirational in Action-Figure!
Yeah I know, they are lists that mean nothing but considering the depth of the claims of Mirza and his family and had they been true; I would, as a rational thinker, expect at least one of them to be on either of the two lists! Oh and Ahmadis before you say 'oh that's just a white man list', remember the 'white man list' has mentioned prominent Muslims and isn't it the white man with whom you have first class relations with? Well then....! A number of Indian/Hindus made the second list; they come from the land of Mirza Ghulam and still managed to outdo him and his living Khalifa! How does that figure?
OK we all know how uninspiring that bumbling oaf of a 'Khalifa' Mas is, so maybe the world renowned Mirza Tahir Ahmad could have made the first list? Mind you, he isn't so world renowned is he? LOL. And oh the shame, the only few figures the Jamaat of Scamadiyya has under its belt: Dr. Abdus Salaam and Ch. Muhammad Zafrullah Khan, failed to make their mark too! LOL. Ahmadiyya is of no significance to the world... but the Ahmadiyya leads its followers to believe the world spins around them and everything happens because of them! Earthquakes, floods and wars, you name it, it is because of them! Guess what? No one cares! There is a world outside of the Cult!
I think I have found the reason Mirza Masroor Ahmad failed to make the list (be warned, it might make you drowsy)! Click here to see the Uninspirational in Action-Figure!
Ahmadis...use your common sense! There is no victory. There is no impact. There is no influence!
