Life of Ahmad — Page 901
as is a biography detailing the life and times of Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as of Qadian, India, who was the Promised Messiah and Mahdi and founder of the Ahmadiyya Musilm community. It was written by a young companion of his, Hadrat Maulana Abdur Rah i m Dard M. A. and was first published in 1948. He covered the life of the Promised Messiah as up until 1901 but was unable to complete the work. is not a biography in the traditional sense. Not only does it provide an insight into this extraordinary life but also addresses a number of important issues such as Jihad in Islam, Prophethood in Islam, Jesus in India and the question of the status of Arabic as the mother of all languages. This is a very important contribution to the literature of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jam a ‘at, written as it was by a companion and contemporary of the Promised Messiah as. It is a work which provides a vivid first hand account of the greatest life of the last 1400 hundred years.