The Light of the Holy Qur'an — Page xvii
Foreword In 1895, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, peace be upon him, ini- tiated a periodical named N u rul-Qur’ a n ( The Light of the Holy Qur’an ) with the express intent of disseminating the truths and verities of the Divine Word. He adopted the requirement that any claim or argument he presented in this journal would originate directly from the Holy Qur’an itself, so that people might know that the Holy Qur’an alone maintains the miraculous quality of articulating its claims as well as their corroboration. In N u rul-Qur’ a n —Number I, the Promised Messiah as demon- strates that the Holy Qur’an not only makes the emphatic claim of its Divine origin and the prophethood of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, but it also proves this very claim with exceedingly potent and powerful arguments. These proofs are then set forth in detail within this issue of the periodical. In N u rul-Qur’ a n —Number II, the Promised Messiah as expresses his great regret that he was compelled to rebut the filthy and sordid allegations that were heaped upon the Holy Prophet s as