 Originally starting out as a middle school, the institution traces its roots to two rooms in a guest house located in Qadian.It was established to provide an Ahmadiyya-based curriculum in a town that had a small number of schools where most teachers taught with a bias against Islam.Inaugurated on 1 January 1898 as "Madrassa Talim-ul-Islam", the school quickly became a high school within a three-year period.