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About the Author Introduction Born in 1835 in Qadian (India), Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah and Mahdias, devoted himself to the study of the Holy Quran and to a life of prayer and devotion. Finding Islam the target of foul attacks from all directions and the fortunes of Muslims at a low ebb, he, as the Imam and the voice articulate of the age, undertook the task of vindicating Islam and presenting its teachings in their pristine purity. In his vast corpus of writings, lectures, discourses, religious debates etc. , he argued that Islam was the only living faith, by follow- ing which, man could establish contact with his Creator and enter into communion with Him. He announced that God had appointed him the Messiah and Mahdi, according to the prophecies of the Bible, the Holy Quran and Ahādīth. In 1889 he began to accept initiation into his Jamāʻat, which is now established in over a hundred and eighty countries. He wrote more than eighty books in Urdu, Arabic and Persian. After his demise in 1908, the Promised Messiahas was suc- ceeded by Khulafā (Successors), who have continued his mission. Hadrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih Vat, is the present head of the Ahmadiyya Muslims Jamāʻat and the fifth Successor of the Promised Messiahas. About the Book The Islamic concept of salvation differs from that of other relig- ions, and from Christianity in particular, because Islam rejects the concept of Original Sin and declares man to be responsible only for his own sins. He, therefore, needs to free himself from his own sins in order to attain salvation. In this article, the iii