Books published at End of Year 2000
Translations of Four Books of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
The Light & Islamic Review (US), March to June 2001 Issue (Vol. 78, No. 2 and 3, p. 27)
The following four English translations of books written by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad have been published at the end of 2000. They may also be read at our website www.muslim.org.
An Account of Exoneration, Translation of Kitab al-Bariyya (224 pages):
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad relates the details of how he was exonerated in court of a false criminal charge brought against him by Christian missionaries, and gives the background of his work of refuting the wrong Christian doctrines. This translation consists of about seventy percent of the original book Kitab al-Bariyya, the remainder having already been published in 1996 under the title A Brief Sketch of My Life.
Victory of Islam, Translation of Fath-i Islam (47 pages):
Fath-i Islam was written and published by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in 1891. Although he had already published his famous work Barahin Ahmadiyya in the early 1880s, this was his first writing after his claim to be the Promised Messiah. In it he has described his Divinely-ordained mission of the defence and advancement of Islam, to be carried on till the final, prophesied triumph of Islam comes about. However, he explains that the hardest sacrifices must be made by Muslims to achieve that great goal, and for this he makes deeply heartfelt appeals to them. He also lays down the practical ways in which the Divine Movement established by him must work for spiritual reform of humankind.
The Will (60 pages):
- A translation of the booklet Al-Wasiyyat, by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
- A translation of the Introduction and Explanatory Notes relating to Al-Wasiyyat written by Maulana Muhammad Ali which appeared in an edition of Al-Wasiyyat published from Lahore shortly after the Split in the Ahmadiyya Movement in 1914.
- An appendix by the translator containing additional material bearing on this subject is also provided.
In Al-Wasiyyat Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad has laid down the system of governing his Movement to take effect after him. He handed overpowers of administration and financial control to a council or Anjuman that he created. He did not give absolute power to any one individual head, nor did he create a system of autocratic rule by a khalifa [caliph].
Need of Imam of the Age (35 pages):
This is the translation of Zarurat-ul-Imam done by Kalamazad Mohammad of Trinidad and revised by Zahid Aziz. In this booklet, written in September 1898, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad describes the qualities that are bestowed by Allah upon the person who is appointed Imam of the Age. He explains how the one who is the Divinely-appointed Imam of the Time is distinguished from other persons who also may be blessed with spiritual experience to some extent.