An Account of Exoneration

Kitab al-Bariyya

by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (English translation by Hazrat Ameer (IV) Prof. Dr. Asghar Hameed and Dr. Zahid Aziz)

Table of Contents:

  • About the Book
  • About the Author
  • Publisher’s Preface
  • 1. An Essential Notification
  • 2. Introduction:
    • Plans against Jesus and their Failure
    • Spiritual ascension of Jesus
    • How God saved the Holy Prophet [Muhammad (pbuh)] from his Enemies
    • The Case against me
    • The acts of God in my Assistance
    • Muhammad Husain’s Father
    • Lekhram’s Murder
    • Those Prophecies not apparently Fulfilled
    • Prophecy of descent of Elijah
    • Revelations about Case
    • Similarity with Jesus
    • The False Case
    • Opposition to the Truth
    • Ways of Guidance
    • Belief in Divinity of Jesus fails all Three Tests
    • Teachings have Precedence over Prophecies
    • Test of Reason
    • Test of Heavenly Support
    • Four Religious Views refute Trinity
    • Divine signs received by Hazrat Mirza
    • Taking of Oaths according to the Christians
    • Further Prophecies fulfilled
  • 3. Refutation of Christian Doctrines:
    • Finding God
    • Only means of deliverance from Sin
    • Doctrine that Jesus bore Curse of Sinners
    • Light from above dispels Darkness of Sin
    • Imperfect Nature of Gospel Teaching
    • Defects of the Christian Teaching about God
    • Christian Error in Concept of Paradise
    • Concept of Justice and Mercy of God
    • Objections against Christian Fundamentals
    • How to obtain Purification from Sins
    • New Teaching given by Quran about Unity of God
    • Imperfections of the Teachings of the Torah
    • Gospel Writers’ Unfitness
    • Civil and Penal Laws
    • Mis-statements in the Gospels
    • Living Signs in support of Islam
    • Is Elohim Plural?
    • Inferior sacrificed for Superior, and not Vice Versa
    • Self-sacrifice
    • My Revelations
    • Jesus not proved to be God by his Revelations
    • Jesus was not God
    • Why this Case was brought
    • Other Signs in Support
  • 4. Repentance of the Venerable Man of the Newspaper Chaudhveen Sadi
  • 5. A Most Important Petition for the Attention of the Government:
    • Abuses of Christians
    • Abuses of Hindus and Aryas
    • About Myself
  • 6. The Legal Proceedings:
    • Statement of Abdul Hameed, at Amritsar
    • Statement of Dr. Martyn Clarke, at Amritsar
    • Order of District Magistrate, Amritsar
    • Summons to the Defendant by Gurdaspur Court
    • Statement of Dr. Clarke to Gurdaspur Court
    • Supplementary Statement of Dr. Clarke, 12th August 1897
    • Supplementary Statement of Dr. Clarke, 13th August 1897
    • Statement of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
    • Statement of Abdul Hameed
    • Supplementary Statement of Abdul Hameed
    • Supplementary Statement of Abdul Hameed
    • Statement of Abdur Rahim, 10th August 1897
    • Supplementary Statement of Abdur Rahim, 13th August 1897
    • Statement of Prem Das, 10th August 1897
    • Statement of Prem Das, 13th August 1897
    • Statement of Maulvi Nur-ud-Din
    • Statement of Shaikh Rahmatullah
    • Statement of Maulvi Muhammad Husain
    • Statement of Prabh Dyal
    • Statement of Abdul Hameed, 20th August
    • Statement of Dr. Martyn Clarke, 20th August
    • Statement of Mr. Lemarchand, District Superintendent Police
    • Statement of Waris Din
    • Statement of Yusuf Khan
    • Statement of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani
    • Copy of Letter from Rev. H. G. Grey, Amritsar
    • Copy of Statement of Nur-ud-Din Christian
    • Statement of Nur-ud-Din the Christian
  • 7. The Judgment
  • 8. Conclusion
  • 9. Appendix (by the Publisher)