Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 63
63 Your Majesty! Just as your name denotes peace, so we pray that peace may be established on the borders of Afghanistan through you. I have briefly described for you the beliefs of the Ahmadiyya Community, the objections that are raised against those beliefs, and their answers. I will now proceed to give a brief account of the claims of the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement and of the arguments on which these claims are based. I do this so that, having delivered His message to you, I may stand absolved before God. I hope that after learning about the will of God, you will also reap His blessings and draw His love unto yourself. The Claim of Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as claimed that God had raised him for the guidance and direction of mankind; that he was the same Messiah and Mahdi whose advent was foretold by the Holy Prophet s as ; and that in his person were fulfilled all prophecies con - tained in various scriptures of the world regarding the advent of a Reformer in the latter days. He also claimed that God had granted him insight into the Holy Quran and had revealed to him its innermost secrets and truths, and that he had been given knowl - edge of the subtle paths of piety and righteousness. He claimed that he had been assigned the task of demonstrating the glory and superiority of the Holy Prophet s as and causing Islam to become victorious over other religions. He had been sent to inform the