A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad

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ْ﷽ رَﺳُﻮ ٰ َِّْ َ ِ حنَْﻤَﺪُہٗ وَ ﻧُﺼ ِ ﻟ ِﻪ اﻟْکَﺮِﻳْﻢ With the grace and mercy of God. He alone is the Helper. S ON of our Gracious Sovereign and Heir to the throne of the British Empire! In my capacity as the Head of the Ahmadiyyah Community and as Successor to the Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyyah Movement, I bid Your Royal Highness welcome to India, on behalf of every member of the Community, and assure Your Royal Highness that the Ahmadiyyah Community is absolutely and thoroughly loyal to the British Crown and, God willing, will ever remain so. The esteem, affection and love which every member of the Ahmadiyyah Community entertains for the wearer of the British Crown can be gauged only by one who holds another extremely dear but is separated from him by an impassable gulf which he can never hope to cross, and who suddenly finds the object of his hopeless longing at his side, dreary separation being converted into glad union. Gracious Prince! you can, in some small measure, judge of the feeling of personal affection which the members of the Ahmadiyyah Community entertain for Your Royal Highness from the fact that when they found that they could not look forward to the honour of a visit