Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 83
THE RENAISSANCE OF ISLAM 83 attractive presentation of the faith of Muhammad which we have yet come across. ' The Indian Spectator commented: 'An exposition of the teachings of the Quran in a very attractive form. . . there is nothing disputatious and nothing which is not drawn di- rectly from the Quran. ' The Indian Review wrote: 'Very entertaining and pleasant reading, lucid, comprehensive and philosophical. . . evokes admiration. The book deserves to be in the hands of every Muhammadan student and also in the libraries of those who wish to know something of the Muhammadan religion. ' The Spiritual Journal, Boston, summed it up as: 'Pure Gospel. ' The Bristol Times and Mirror opined: 'Clearly it is no ordinary person who thus addresses himself to the West. ' Sahibzada Syed Abdul Latif was a descendant of the well- known saint Hazrat Sh~ikh Abu! Hasan Ali Hajveri, who is. generally known as Data Ganj Bakhsh and is buried in Lahore. Sahibzada Abdul Latifs home was Sayyadgah in the Province of Khost in Afganistan. He was a very learned divine, a great religious leader and a man of saintly life. He was a recipient of revelation, and had frequent experience of true visions. He was a spiritual preceptor of note, and had a large number of disciples and followers in Afghanistan. He possessed large properties in Khost as well as in adjoining British territory. He had a high standing at court and was nominated one of the two representatives of Afghanistan on the Boundary Commission appointed in 1894 to demarcate the boundary between Afghanistan and British India, which came to be know as the Durand Commission, after Sir Mortimer Durand who was the senior British representative on the Commission. Sahibzada Abdul Latif had become aware fairly early of the advent of the Promised Messiah. During the sittings of the Commission one of the members of the staff of the British