Ahmadiyya Movement — Page iv
PREFACE The ‘Ahmadiyya Movement’ is a gist of ‘Ahmadiyyat or the true Islam’ a book written by the present Head of the Movement, Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad in exposition of Islam from Ahmadiyya viewpoint. This short treatise was prepared to be read in the religious Convention of the Living Religions of the then British Empire held in London in 1924 under the auspices of the Wembley Ex- hibition Organisation. Accepting the invitation of the conveners the Head of the Movement himself visited London on that occasion and parti- cipated in the Convention. His treatise, read by Sir Zafrullah Khan, was immensely appreciated by the audience. As the booklet is now some 43 years old, the account which it carries of the World-wide expansion of the Movement and of its missionary success has become very much out-dated. It is for this reason that we have given below a brief note regarding the present position. When the booklet was prepared in 1924 our Mission had only just been born in West Africa. It was in 1921 that the Movement made its first missionary contacts with Ghana and Nigeria. Now it has established a vast network of its missions, mosques, schools and colleges in that part of the continent. Ahmadiyya Mission in Nigeria has its branches spread out in the remotest parts of the country and there is now quite a big team of locally trained African missionaries to take the message of Islam to their countrymen and broadcast its literature among them. Besides, the country has a constant influx of highly trained missionaries and literature from Pakistan. The Mission is also running a good number of Primary as well as Secondary schools