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missioned by God and is a recipient of revelation. Hundreds of revelations, prophecies, true dreams, divine directions, glad tidings and intimations of triumph and divine help and divine guidance, couched in various languages, have been set out in this book, supported by the testimony of hundreds of opponents of Islam which establishes their truth and proves that the author has doubtlessly written this book under divine direction. It is also clear that, according to the Hadith of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, that Allah, Lord of Glory and Honour, would raise among the. Muslims, at the beginning of every century, one who would revive the faith, the author of this book is the Reformer of the Fourteenth. Century and is a profound scholar and is one of the most perfect individuals of the Muslim Community. This is also supported by another Hadith of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, wherein he is reported to have said: The true divine among my followers will be like the Prophets of Israel' (Taasurate Qadian, pp. 66–8). . Maulvi Muhammad Sharif, of Bangalore, South India, wrote in his paper Manshoor Muhammadi: ‘This book, Braheen Ahmadiyyah, is a peerless publication in its proof of the truth of the Quran and of the prophethood of the Holy. Prophet. The author has proved the truth of Islam by such positive arguments that every just person would acknowledge that the. Quran is the Book of Allah, that the prophethood of the Holy. Prophet is righteous, that Islam is a faith established by God and that a Muslim is instructed in the truth. There is here such a multiplicity of proofs that no way of escape and no possibility of denial has been left open to an opponent. Every argument is clear, every proof is bright. The book is a mirror of faith and is full of the. Quran to the brim. It leads to the straight path, it is a torch that lights up the true way. It is a treasury of truth, it is a mine of guidance, it acts like lightning on the stores of the enemy and burns up all his arguments. For the Muslims it is a strong support for the. Holy Book and is a bright proof of the Mother of the Book. It has unsettled and disturbed every enemy of religion. '. In March 1889 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad initiated the. Ahmadiyyah Movement in Islam. . In 1890 he wrote three books, Fatah-i-Islam, Tauzeeh Maram and Izalah-i-Auham. All three were published in the early part of 1891. In these books he set forth, under divine direction, his claim of being the Mahdi and Promised Messiah, whose advent in the latter days had been foretold by the Holy Prophet, peace 5