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viii the Am i rul-Mu’min i n himself in 1924 in his Ahmadiyyat or the True Islam , and has since become wellknown. It consists of the statutory prohibition of interest, the tax of Zakat and the division of inheritances. It also includes general instructions regarding voluntary contributions by individuals which leaders of Islam from the earliest times have organised in different ways and devoted to the service of society. The Holy Founder as of the Ahmadiyya Movement (d. 1908) instituted among his followers a system of voluntary consecration of properties by individual Ahmadis to the needs of Islam in the widest sense of the term. The institution was promulgated by him in his Al-Wa s iyyat (The Will) in 1905, and since then willing away portions of properties and income to the Central Anjuman-e-Ahmadiyya at Qadian have become a common practice with Ahmadis. The Am i rul- Mu’m in i n announced in his address that the social order of Islam, built on the pillars of its economic teachings, would continue to grow. It would grow through Al- W a s iyyat, the institution of willing away properties and income; inaugurated by the Founder as of Ahmadiyyat in 1905. The institution of Al-Wa s iyyat, therefore, answers the question which (This lecture expounds in details Islamic economic system whereas the subject is only succinctly dealt in the Ahmadiyyat or the True Islam. ) [Publisher of the present edition]