Life of Ahmad — Page 815
as QADIAN IN 1901 815 should be The Review of Religions and that it should be issued from Lahore. There were left only 225 shares as 775 had been sold. It was proposed to issue the first number on October 1st, 1901. In October it was also decided to issue the magazine in Urdu. On November 30th, 1901, it was decided that the magazine should be published from Qadian. The first issue is dated January, 1902, it was printed at the Albion Press, Lahore. Muslims generally believed that it was not permissible to make the likenesses of living beings and some of the fanatic mullahs went to the extreme in declaring that all photographs were also taboo. But Ahmad as held that the ban was only meant to exclude the possibility of the deification of stones, pictures and paintings; and as a practical leader of men anxious to carry his Divine mission to all men, he agreed to have his photograph taken so that people living in distant parts of the world might see his face and understand what sort of person he was. He was taken by the camera sitting, standing and in company with his followers. Sh. N u r Muhammad proprietor of K a rkh a na Hamdam S i h at , Lahore, supplied those photographs at one rupee a copy. The phonograph also came to Ahmad’s as notice and his first reaction was that the device should be utilised in the furtherance of his mission. It was proposed that Ahmad’s as own voice should be recorded so that people might hear him at first hand. A deputation of three men was going to the Near East,