Prophet

=== Ahmadiyya ===
{{Main|Prophethood (Ahmadiyya)}}
[[File:Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (c. 1897).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad|Mirzā Ghulām Aḥmad]] (1835–1908), a religious leader from [[British Raj|India]], and founder of the [[Ahmadiyya|Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam]].<ref name="Upal 2021"/><ref name="Korbel-Preckel 2016"/>]]

During his lifetime, [[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad|Mirzā Ghulām Aḥmad]] said that he was a [[Prophethood (Ahmadiyya)|prophet]] of [[God in Islam|God]] and became the founder of the [[Ahmadiyya|Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam]],<ref name="Upal 2021"/><ref name="Korbel-Preckel 2016"/> which embodied the ''[[Mahdi|Mahdī]]'' of [[Islam]]<ref name="Upal 2021"/><ref name="Korbel-Preckel 2016"/> and fulfilled the messianic prophecies regarding the coming of a [[Messiah|savior]] to various other religious traditions, including [[Christianity]] and [[Hinduism]].<ref name="Upal 2021">{{cite book |author-last=Upal |author-first=M. Afzal |author-link=Afzal Upal |year=2021 |chapter=The Cultural Genetics of the Aḥmadiyya Muslim Jamāʿat |editor1-last=Cusack |editor1-first=Carole M. |editor1-link=Carole M. Cusack |editor2-last=Upal |editor2-first=M. Afzal |title=Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements |location=[[Leiden]] and [[Boston]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |series=Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion |volume=21 |doi=10.1163/9789004435544_034 |doi-access=free |isbn=978-90-04-43554-4 |issn=1874-6691 |pages=637–657}}</ref>

Followers of the [[Ahmadiyya|Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam]] believe that Mirzā Ghulām Aḥmad was a [[Prophethood (Ahmadiyya)|prophet]] of [[God in Islam|God]],<ref name="Upal 2021"/><ref name="Korbel-Preckel 2016"/> who is said to be a fulfillment of the various Islamic prophecies regarding the [[Second Coming|second advent]] of [[Jesus]] (''[[Jesus in Islam|ʿĪsā]]'') before the [[Islamic eschatology|end of time]].<ref name="Upal 2021"/><ref name="Korbel-Preckel 2016">{{cite book |last1=Korbel |first1=Jonathan |last2=Preckel |first2=Claudia |year=2016 |chapter=Ghulām Aḥmad al-Qādiyānī: The Messiah of the Christians—Peace upon Him—in India (India, 1908) |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZtY6DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA426 |editor1-last=Bentlage |editor1-first=Björn |editor2-last=Eggert |editor2-first=Marion |editor3-last=Krämer |editor3-first=Hans-Martin |editor4-last=Reichmuth |editor4-first=Stefan |editor4-link=Stefan Reichmuth (academic) |title=Religious Dynamics under the Impact of Imperialism and Colonialism |series=Numen Book Series |volume=154 |location=[[Leiden]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |pages=426–442 |doi=10.1163/9789004329003_034 |isbn=978-90-04-32511-1}}</ref>

Ahmadi thought emphasizes the belief that Islam is the final dispensation for humanity as revealed to Muhammad and the necessity of restoring it to its true intent and pristine form, which had been lost through the centuries.<ref name="Valentine">{{cite book |last=Valentine |first=Simon |title=Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: History, belief, practice |year=2008 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-70094-8 |page=xv passim}}</ref> Its adherents consider Ahmad to have appeared as the Mahdi—bearing the qualities of [[Jesus in Ahmadiyya Islam|Jesus]] in accordance with their reading of scriptural prophecies—to revitalize Islam and set in motion its moral system that would bring about lasting peace.<ref>{{cite book |first=Antonio R. |last=Gualtieri |title=Conscience and Coercion: Ahmadi Muslims and Orthodoxy in Pakistan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCwHaOabz7YC&pg=PA18 |year=1989 |publisher=Guernica Editions |isbn=978-0-920717-41-7 |pages=18–20}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Prophecy Continuous: Aspects of Ahmadi Religious Thought and Its Medieval Background | author=Friedmann, Yohanan | year=2003 | publisher=Oxford University Press | pages=116–17, 121 | isbn=965-264-014-X}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Adil Hussain |last=Khan |title=From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim minority movement in south Asia |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-0253015297 |pages=2, 42–48}}</ref> They believe that upon divine guidance he purged Islam of foreign accretions in belief and practice by championing what is, in their view, Islam's original precepts as practised by Muhammad and the [[Sahabah|early Muslim community]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Antonio R. |last=Gualtieri |title=Conscience and Coercion: Ahmadi Muslims and orthodoxy in Pakistan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCwHaOabz7YC&pg=PA22 |year=1989 |publisher=Guernica Editions |isbn=978-0-920717-41-7 |page=22}}</ref> Ahmadis thus view themselves as leading the propagation and renaissance of Islam.<ref name="Valentine"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Louis J. |first=Hammann |url=https://www.alislam.org/introduction/intro-louis-hammann.html |title=Ahmaddiyyat - an introduction |publisher=Ahmadiyya Muslim Community [online] |year=1985 |access-date=27 February 2018 |archive-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611191746/https://www.alislam.org/introduction/intro-louis-hammann.html |url-status=live }}</ref>