Lecture Ludhiana — Page iii
iii Publishers’ Note Lecture Ludhiana is the lecture delivered by Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, (1835-190 8 ), on 4 November 1905 at Ludhiana—a town in Punjab, India. This lecture is important for a number of reasons, the chief being the presentation of the Ahmadiyya view- point on true Islam, against the backdrop of persistent disinformation spread by the Muslim clerics and other vested interests. It analyses in detail the hardship and opposition faced by the Promised Messiah, the divine promises revealed to him, and the glorious fulfilment of these promises. It also covers an entire spectrum of other topics rang- ing from Jihad to the importance of prayer, and a detailed analysis of the death and Second Coming of Jesus as. This English version is being published for the first time. It has been translated from the Urdu original by Professor Mian Muhammad Afzal and revised and ed- ited by Professor Muhammad Ali Chaudhry and Mr. Kanwar Idris, assisted by Zulkarnain and Raja Ata-ul- Mannan. In this translation, the name Muhammad or his title ‘Holy Prophet’, is generally followed by the symbol sa for the salutation Sal-Lalaho ‘Alaihi wa Sallam, meaning ‘May peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. ’ The names of other prophets are followed by the symbol as for ‘Alaihis-Salam, meaning ‘Peace be