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{{Short description|Writer, political activist (1894–1955)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Abdur Rahim Dard
| image = Maulana Abdul Rahim Dard.png
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_name = 
| birth_date = 19 June 1894
| birth_place = [[Ludhiana]], [[Punjab, British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1955|12|07|1894|05|19}}
| death_place = [[Rabwah]], [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]], Pakistan
| other_names =
| occupation = [[Dawah|Muslim Missionary]], [[Ulama|Religious Scholar]], and [[Pakistan Movement]] Activist
| known_for = [[Imam]] of historic [[Fazl Mosque, London|Fazl Mosque]] and the relaunch of [[Jinnah]]s political career
}}

'''Abdur Rahim Dard''', known as '''A. R. Dard''' (June 19, 1894 – December 7, 1955) was an [[Ahmadi Muslim]] writer, [[Dawah|missionary]], and political activist for the [[Pakistan Movement]], who served as the [[Imam]] of the historic [[Fazl Mosque, London|Fazl Mosque]], the premier gathering place for [[Islam in India|Indian Muslims]] regardless of denomination in London. He is known for convincing [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]] to return to [[British India]] and fight for the Pakistan Movement.<ref name="reviewofreligions1">{{cite web |url=http://www.reviewofreligions.org/2660/the-life-of-hadhrat-abdur-raheem-dardra/ |title=The Life of Hadhrat Abdur Raheem Dard(ra) |date=15 October 2010 |publisher=The Review of Religions |access-date=26 September 2015 |archive-date=25 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150825013851/http://reviewofreligions.org/2660/the-life-of-hadhrat-abdur-raheem-dardra/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore, 8 April 1933.</ref><ref>Madras Mail, 7 April 1933.</ref><ref>Sunday Times(London) 4 September 1933</ref>

== Career ==
Dard was a speaker, [[Ahmadiyya]] [[Dawah|missionary]] and a writer.<ref>{{cite book |title=Near East and India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SM4cAQAAMAAJ |volume=44 |year=1935 |pages=790–}}</ref> He addressed many large audiences, most notably during the events of [[Jalsa Salana]]s, Interfaith Events, and Political Debates on Pakistan. He wrote many books both in English and [[Urdu]], among them ''Life of Ahmad – Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement'' (1948),<ref>{{cite book |title=The Panjab Past and Present |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ToZMAQAAIAAJ |volume=37 |year=2006 |publisher=Department of Punjab Historical Studies, Punjabi University. |pages=85–}}</ref> a biography which covers the life of [[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad]] up to 1901, however, he was unable to complete the work.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alislam.org/library/books/Life-of-Ahmad-20080411MN.pdf |title=Life of Ahmad : Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement |publisher=Alislam.org |access-date=26 September 2015 |archive-date=22 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922065245/http://www.alislam.org/library/books/Life-of-Ahmad-20080411MN.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[[Review of Religions]] Ahmadiyya Community Vol 65 p158 1971 "The [[Khalifa-tul Masih]] II went more than two miles on foot out of town to receive Maulana Abdurr Rahim Dard."</ref><ref name="ClayerGermain2008">{{cite book |author1=Nathalie Clayer |author2=Eric Germain |title=Islam in Inter-War Europe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OHMTAQAAIAAJ |year=2008 |publisher=Hurst |isbn=978-1-85065-878-8 |pages=51– |quote=... converts such as Khalid Sheldrake and Abdullah Quilliam celebrated the festival of 'Id at the Ahmadi Mosque from time to time, and Abdullah Yusuf Ali gave speeches on such occasions. Indeed, both Fateh Sayal and Abdul Rahim Dard, the two most prominent Ahmadi missionaries after the First World War, were very much part of the mainstream Indian Muslim network}}</ref><ref name="reviewofreligions1" /> He also wrote a book ''The Islamic Caliphate'' (1938).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/TheIslamicCaliphate |format=PDF |title=The Islamic Caliphate |author=A. R. Dard |access-date=26 September 2015}}</ref>

Dard met [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]] in March 1933, (who getting utterly disappointed from Indian Politics had returned to England and started his legal practice there),<ref name="Singh2009">{{cite book |author=Prakash K. Singh |title=Encyclopaedia on Jinnah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H70VAQAAMAAJ |volume=3 |year=2009 |publisher=Anmol Publications |isbn=978-81-261-3779-4 |pages=31– |quote=Few known this fact that Mr. M. A. Jinnah had quit the Indian political scene and out of the frustration left Indian politics. ... Times London (April 9, 1933) carried a report of a reception that was held by the Imam of London Mosque, Mr. Dard, ...}}</ref> and tried to convince him to return to [[British Raj|India]] being direly needed by the [[Indian Muslims]].<ref name="Aḥmad1994">{{cite book |author=Bashīr Aḥmad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-l7YAAAAMAAJ |title=The Ahmadiyya Movement: British-Jewish Connections |publisher=Islamic Study Forum |year=1994 |pages=145–}}</ref> Dard told Jinnah that Jinnah's {{clarify span|text=abandonment of politics in [[British India]] him a "traitor" for the [[Partition of India|Muslim cause]].|explain=A verb seems to be missing, did Dard call Jinnah a traitor?|date=October 2015}} To symbolize Jinnah's return to the political scene, Dard arranged at the [[Fazl Mosque, London|Fazl Mosque]] in London in April 1933, a lecture titled ''The Future of India'' which was presided over by [[Sir Nairne Stewart Sandeman, 1st Baronet|Sir Nairne Sandeman]] in which Jinnah criticized the recent White Paper on the Indian Constitutional Reform and argued for self-government by Indians.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ahmadiyyatimes.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/thanks2uncle-pakistanexists.jpg |format=JPG |title=Country's Founder Persuaded to Return to Politics by London Imam |publisher=Ahmadiyyatimes.files.wordpress.com |access-date=26 September 2015 |archive-date=14 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814155516/http://ahmadiyyatimes.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/thanks2uncle-pakistanexists.jpg |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Khan1978">{{cite book |author=Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan |title=Ahmadiyyat: the renaissance of Islam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HY7YAAAAMAAJ |year=1978 |publisher=Tabshir Publications |pages=242– |isbn=978-0-85525-015-7 |quote=He, therefore, directed Mr A. R. Dard, Imam of the London Mosque, to get in touch with Mr Jinnah and try to persuade ... of 9 April 1933: There was a large gathering in the grounds of the mosque in Melrose Road, Wimbledon, where Mr Jinnah, ...}}</ref>

With the consensus of the [[All India Kashmir Committee]], Dard became its Secretary.<ref name="Hussain2013">{{cite book |author=Syed Taffazull Hussain |title=Sheikh Abdullah-A Biography: The Crucial Period 1905–1939 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7RwFAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA105 |date=23 November 2013 |publisher=Syed Taffazull Hussain |isbn=978-1-60481-603-7 |pages=105–}}</ref><ref name="Saraf1977">{{cite book |author=Muhammad Yusuf Saraf |title=Kashmiris Fight for Freedom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=je0JAQAAIAAJ |volume=1 |year=1977 |publisher=Ferozsons |pages=419– |quote=An All India Kashmir Committee was set up with Mirza Bashir-ud- Din Mahmud Ahmed as President and Maulvi Abdur Rahim Dard as Secretary to forge a common platform for co-ordination of the movement that had so spontaneously ...}}</ref> He served the Jama'at as ''Nazir Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya'' for many years, and accompanied [[Khalifatul Masih]] II.

== Religion ==
Dard was the Private Secretary to [[Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad|Khalifatul Masih II]] from 1920 to 1924 and accompanying him to [[Damascus]], [[State of Palestine|Palestine]], Egypt, Italy and France ultimately reaching England on 22 August 1924 for the [[Wembley's Conference of Living Religions 1924]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3779&context=ocj&sei-redir=1 |title=A Parliament of Living Religions |author=William Loftus Hare |publisher=Opensiuc.lib.siu.edu |access-date=26 September 2015 |archive-date=4 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004012010/http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3779&context=ocj&sei-redir=1 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alislam.org/library/mahmood1.html |format=PDF |title=Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad |date=23 February 2000 |publisher=Alislam.org |access-date=26 September 2015 |archive-date=26 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626122416/http://www.alislam.org/library/mahmood1.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and was appointed as the missionary in Charge of the London Mission.<ref name="Gilham2014">{{cite book |author=Jamie Gilham |title=Loyal Enemies: British Converts to Islam, 1850–1950 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ggQqBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA140 |year=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-937725-1 |pages=140– |quote=... the temporary premises. Another important change in leadership occurred in 1924 when the khalifa visited London and ... The khalifa appointed his private secretary, Abdur Rahim Dard, to lead the jama'at in England, and transferred the ...}}</ref> He served as an [[Ahmadiyya]] [[Dawah|missionary]] in England for a total of 10 years in two terms. The [[Fazl Mosque, London|Fazl Mosque]] in London, was built in 1926 under his supervision.<ref>{{cite book |title=Review of Religions |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OuEnAAAAYAAJ |volume=68 |year=1973 |publisher=M. Masud Ahmad |pages=38– |quote=The work was, however, soon resumed by the grace of God and finished in the end of 1926. The Khalifa-tul Masih planned to give the First London Mosque a befitting opening ceremony. At his instance Maulana Abdur Rahim Dard, Imam ...}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Scholar follows in footsteps of pioneer uncle ; Mosque crusade a family tradition |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-17654571.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160225085637/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-17654571.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 February 2016 |publisher=Birmingham Evening Mail (England) {{Subscription required |via=HighBeam}}|access-date=3 October 2015|date=30 September 2010}}</ref> He finally returned to [[Qadian]] in 1938.

Dard was Imam of the [[Fazl Mosque, London|Fazl Mosque]] in London twice, from 1924 to 1928 and then again from 1931 till 1938.<ref name="DeoraGrover1991">{{cite book |author1=Man Singh Deora |author2=Rajinder Grover |title=Documents on Kashmir Problem: Discussion of the India-Pakistan question in the Security Council meeting |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uKM4AQAAIAAJ |year=1991 |publisher=Discovery Pub. House |isbn=978-81-7141-155-9 |pages=76– |quote=and Abdul Rahim Dard, ex- missionary in charge of the mission in London.}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
* {{cite book |author=A. R. Dard |title=The Islamic caliphate |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTa8IgAACAAJ |year=1938 |publisher=London}}
* {{cite book |author=A. R. Dard |title=Life of Ahmad, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wiTkMQEACAAJ |year=1948 |publisher=Tabshir Publication}}

== References ==
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[[Category:1894 births]]
[[Category:1955 deaths]]
[[Category:Ahmadiyya literature]]
[[Category:Pakistan Movement activists]]
[[Category:Pakistani Ahmadis]]
[[Category:Pakistani imams]]
[[Category:People from Ludhiana]]

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