Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page xii
vi Preface to the Third Edition In 1924, The Conference of Living Religions Within the Empire held a historic session in London. Hadrat Mirza Bashirud- din Mahm oo d Ahmad, Second Successor of the Promised Messi- ah as , and the then Head of the Ahmadiyya Movement, was invited by the Conveners to represent Islam. , grew out of a paper which the Head of the Ahmadiyya Movement had undertaken to prepare for the Conference. As the paper took shape it increased in size, and, as such seemed the purpose of God, the author allowed it to assume its present dimensions. A shorter paper was later prepared to be read in the Conference. The work was also published at the same time so that a systematic and more detailed exposition of Islam, as reinterpreted in our age by Hadrat Ahmad, the Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement, should become available to those interested in the study of Islam. In this treatise the author has exhaustively dealt with such important and vital subjects as the Conception of God, His relation to man and the means of its expression, and the realiza- tion and attainment of Communion with God. He has discussed the teachings of Islam on morals and has illustrated the means provided by Islam to acquire good morals. Under social aspects, the author has explained Islamic teachings about different rela- tionships in various spheres within the family, the community, between partners in business, between government and the people, between different nations and States, etc. He has set out the Islamic point of view regarding the nature of the human soul and the object of its creation. The author has also explained what