Inception
On 28 May 1900, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claimed to have received the revelation:
Step forth that your time has Arrived and the feet of the people of Muhammad have been firmly planted on a high tower.
— Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Tadhkirah, pg. 444
Ghulam Ahmad then solicited donations for the building of the minaret to commemorate the following hadith by the Islamic prophet Muhammad regarding the second coming of Jesus:
Allah would send Christ, son of Mary, and he will descend with the white minaret, east of Damascus, wearing two garments lightly dyed with saffron and placing his hands on the wings of two Angels.
— Sahih Muslim Book 41, Hadith 7015
An associated advertisement argued that construction of the minaret would fulfill the prophecy:
Our village of Qadian and this our mosque near which a Minaret will be constructed, is situated to the east of Damascus.
— Minaretul Maseeh dated 28th May 1900, Majmooa Ishtiharat
This Minaret is that minaret whose need has been accepted in Holy Prophet's Hadiths.
— Majmooa Ishtiharat,
The White Minaret is situated 3644 km east of Damascus, Syria.
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