Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page xi
Introduction by Hadrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih V, may Allah the Almighty help him with His powerful support Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as of Qadian published Bar a h i n-e- Ahmadiyya Parts I, II, III, and IV during 1880–1884 to prove the superiority of Islam over all other faiths. The Promised Messiah as doc- umented the revelations which he received from Allah the Exalted in these Parts. This led to much criticism, which only increased when God further informed him in 1890 that Hadrat ‘ I s a as ( Jesus) —who was generally believed to still be alive in the heavens—had in fact died and that the long-awaited Messiah of the Latter Days was none other than himself. While the Promised Messiah as continued to publish books on various matters of religion to propagate the faith of Islam, it was after a period of twenty-three years that he wrote Part V of Bar a h i n-e- Ahmadiyya. He called it the ‘rebirth’ of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya. is filled with the same themes that permeate the entire life and mission of the Promised Messiah as : love and cognition of Allah the Exalted, divine origin and perfection of the Holy Quran, truthfulness of the Holy Prophet s as and his exemplary sta- tus as a role model, and the need for respect and tolerance in interfaith dialogue. He also announced that the Latter Day prophecies about the second advent of Hadrat ‘ I s a as and Imam Mahdi were fulfilled in his person.