The Truth Revealed — Page v
ﺑِﺴْﻢِ ا ِ ﻟﻠɟȹِ اﻟﺮَّمحْٰﻦِ اﻟﺮَّﺣِﻴْﻢ About the Author Born in 1835 in Qadian (India), Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi as , devoted himself to the study of the Holy Quran and to a life of prayer and contemplation. Finding Islam the target of theological attacks and the fortunes of Muslims at a low ebb, he undertook the vindication and expo- sition of Islam. In his vast corpus of writings (including the epoch-making Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah ), his lectures, discourses, religious debates etc. , he argued that Islam was a living faith and the only religion capable of establishing a relationship with man and his creator. The teachings contained in the Holy Quran and the Law promulgated by Islam were designed to raise man to moral, intellectual and spiritual perfection. He announced that God had appointed him the Messiah and Mahdi as mentioned in the prophecies of the Bible, the Holy Quran and Hadith. In 1889 he began to accept initiation into the Ahmadiyya Jam a ‘at, which is now established in almost two hundred countries. His eighty books are written mostly in Urdu, but a significant proportion of his writings are also in Arabic and Persian. About the Book 3XEOLVKHG E\ WKH 3URPLVHG 0HVVLDK DV LQ 0D\ Sachch a’i k a I z h a r > The Truth Revealed @ LVDVKRUWFROOHFWLRQRIOHWWHUVDUWLFOHV DQG SXEOLF DQQRXQFHPHQWV VHW DPLGVW WKH EDFNGURS RI WKH ZHOO