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30 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Does this not make reference to signs of the past?” The Promised Messiah as went on to say: “Now the times are such that our friends ought to visit me again and again, so that their faith and righteousness may increase by witnessing the new and fresh signs that are manifested daily in my favour. ” 1 July 1899 The Purpose of the Establishment of the Ahmadiyya Community A respectable officer recently came to Qadian for some reason. His Holiness as , our Imam, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Chief of Qadian, also invited him. When all the guests had gathered before the food was served, the Promised Messiah as ad- dressed the chief guest and the other friends. 2 The Promised Messiah as said: “Whenever you come here to Qadian, do visit my home without any hesitation at all. We are not accustomed to any formality whatsoever. My endeavours are wholly religious and I am completely detached from the world and its relations and affectations. It is as though I am dead to worldly preoccupations. I am devoted to the Faith and my entire mission is re- ligious in nature—as has always been the case with the past saints and holy men of Islam. My mission is no new undertaking; my task is to dispel those beliefs which pose a danger to the people in every respect, and to purge their hearts is our true desire and objective. For example, some foolish people hold the belief that it is permissible to steal the possessions of people belonging to other nations and usurp the wealth of disbelievers. Then, in order to support their inner, base desires, they fabricate numerous Hadith as well. These people also hold as a mat- ter of doctrine that Jesus as , who was to reappear in the world, would engage in violence and shed blood—although a religion of compulsion is no religion at all. In short, terrifying doctrines of this sort and false ideologies have taken root in the hearts of people, and it is to dispel and replace them with peaceful doctrines that my community has been established. As has always been the case, people of worldly bent have always opposed divine reformers, saints and those who came to teach virtue. So, too, has been the case with me. My opponents have spread false 1 Al-Hakam , vol. 3, no. 24, dated 10 July 1899, pp. 3-4 2 The honourable Mufti Muhammad Sadiq Sahib ra writes: ‘This discourse was based on such beneficial and useful words that I immediately noted most sentences in my notebook, as was my habit. Afterwards, I thought it would be appropriate to give our friends an opportunity to benefit from this deep and subtle discourse through the Al-Hakam newspaper. Therefore, I have arranged this text as I remember, with the help of the sentences that I noted down at that time. ’