This small booklet sets forth, in a nutshell, some of the events of the career of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah^(as), furnishing glimpses of his life and character; wholly inadequate to satisfy the ardent and eager curiosity of a scholar or a seeker, but better than no information at all.

This booklet was written in Urdu by his son and Second Successor, Sahibzada Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad (1889-1965) in 1916, only eight years after Ahmad's death, and was first published in English in 1917.