So Said The Promised Messiah (as) — Page ii
PREFACE Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835 - 1908), the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, peace be on him, was raised in this Age to reform the world at large. The Holy Prophet Muhammad, sallallaho alaihi wa sallam, had called him the Hakam and Adl. He had also said that even if the Faith would have gone to the pleiades, he would bring it back. Indeed, he was to establish the Law of God and revive His nob le religion. This, he did, alongwith other things, through his writings and discourses on various occasions, especially, sittings after the five daily prayers or exhortations after the initiations of those who came to join his Fold. His discourses have been collected and compiled in ten volumes and have been named "Malfoozat". They being in Urdu, very great need was felt that an English rendering should also be brought out for the benefit of the English speaking friends. That in view, a brief collection was published some years back. Later on arrangement was made to select passages from all the ten volumes for a bigger collection. This selection was first published in the monthly Tahrik-i-Jadid and now it is being presented to the readers in book form. This volume contains selection from the first three volumes of "Malfoozat". It is hoped that two more volumes would be soon published which would cover the remaining seven volumes; in fact they have already been published in the monthly Tahrik-i-Jadid. We pray to God that He may enable all of us to benefit from this publication. Amen. NASEEM SAIFI Vakilut Tasnif