Selections from the Discourses and Exhortations of the Promised Messiah

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Brief Life-history and Literary Contribution of the Promised Messiah [Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian]:
  • Education
  • Righteous and God-fearing
  • Love for the Holy Quran
  • Divine Visions and Revelations
  • Anti-Islamic Christian Literature
  • Comparative Study of Religions:
    • Re: Christianity
    • Re: Sikhism
  • Arabic — Mother of all Languages
  • Passion for Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation
  • Inter-faith Dialogue
  • Death
• Selections from the Discourses and Exhortations of the Promised Messiah:
  • A Parable of the Pleasures of this World
  • Advice to the Community:
    • Righteous Actions and Belief
    • Need for Formation of a Community
    • Loyalty and Sincerity
    • Repentance and Commitment to Faith
    • Fear of Allah
  • Supplication — Key to Spiritual Perfection:
    • The Unique Distinction of Islam
    • Patience and Perseverance
    • Fruits of True Love for Allah
    • Seeking Allah’s Pleasure
    • Righteous Face Trials, Hardships and Opposition
    • The Best Way of Supplication is Salah [Prayer]
    • Strongest Support Lies in the Love of Allah
    • Supplication — The Weapon of Success
    • Righteousness is achieved through Self-reformation
    • Allah is the Ultimate Guardian
    • Difficulties in the way of Righteousness
    • Piety helps to shun Evil Ways
    • Significance of Difficulties and Trials in the way of achieving Spiritual Progress
    • Living Testimony of Demonstration of Love for Allah
    • How Friendship with Allah can be Developed
  • Friends of Allah:
    • Visible Signs of Allah’s Friendship
    • Three Stages of Knowledge
    • Precedence of Faith over Material World
    • Absorption in the Love of Allah
  • The Path of Righteousness:
    • Reward of Faith
    • Seven aspects of Faith and Doors of Paradise
  • The Wisdom of Supererogatory Acts of Goodness
  • Three Categories of the Faithful:
    • The Three Conditions of Man
    • Comparison of Three Spiritual Conditions of Man with the Stages of Goodness
    • Three Spiritual Conditions of Man
    • The Three Stages of Goodness:
      • State of Justice
      • Stage of Goodness
      • Giving to the Kindred
    • The Three Categories of Believers
    • Acknowledge Allah as the Creator
    • Acknowledge Allah as the Bountiful
    • Complete submission to the Will of Allah
  • Purification of the Inner Self:
    • Inner Peace
    • Two Stages of Righteousness
    • Trials and Tribulations
    • The True Discernment
    • Mind, Heart and Tongue as the controlling Factors
    • Similitudes of Spiritual Heights attained
    • Spiritual Mantel is bestowed as Divine Grace
  • What is the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement?
  • The Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement Stands for