Our Teaching — Page vii
Foreword to the First Edition This is a time when the darkness of materialism has overspread the entire face of the earth and obscured people’s vision. Many there are who profess faith but are deprived of its true sweetness and strength. They are unaware of the One Living, Omnipresent God. For the benefit of seekers after truth, therefore, I present an abridged version of the teaching of the Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement as laid down in his book Kashti-e-Nuh (lit, Noah’s Ark) which he wrote to save men from the current del- uge of irreligion and materialism. This book was intended mainly for the members of the Ahmadiyya Community but Muslims in general have also been addressed in it. The book is a torch of guid- ance through which every Muslim, nay every man with a craving for truth and spirituality can rekindle his inner lamp and illumi- nate his heart. The present abridgement is an English rendering of the Founder’s own sacred words and, therefore, is replete with all the