Seerat-i-Tayyiba — Page 2
2 FOREWORD This pattern of my activities and interest in life, throughout, has been such that I have seldom felt called upon to speak from the public platform. But on the occasion of the Annual Gathering of 1959, Nazir Islah-o-Irshad insisted, that I address the audience on the personality and character of the Promised Messiah, Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement, and I had to comply. It was, however, a written Paper which I read in the Gathering and by the grace of God, it was highly appreciated by the friends assembled, and provided me with an opportunity to be of some service to Islam and Ahmadiyyat. This Paper, which now is being published under the title Seerat-i-Tayyiba, throws light on the high character and personality of the Promised Messiah from three points of view: ( a ) Love of God; ( b) Ishq-i-Rasool, i. e. , an exceptionally deep devotion to the Holy Prophet Muhammad; ( c) and kindness, sympathy and affection for fellow human beings. And these are the three aspects of human life which form the life and soul of religion and depth of faith of a true Muslim. At the end, later, I added a note on the Seerat of Hazrat Amma Jaan, the blessed spouse and partner in life of the Promised Messiah, so that the Paper should be of additional benefit for the female members of the Ahmadiyya Movement RABWAH, MIRZA BASHIR AHMAD March 11,1960