In 1924, The Conference of Living Religions Within the Empire held a historic session in London. Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad, Second Successor of the Promised Messiah (as), and the then Head of the Ahmadiyya Movement, was invited by the Conveners to represent Islam. Ahmadiyyat or the True Islam, grew out of a paper which the Head of the Ahmadiyya Movement had undertaken to prepare for the Conference.
As the paper took shape it increased in size, and, as such seemed the purpose of God, the author allowed it to assume its present dimensions. A shorter paper was later prepared to be read in the Conference. The work was also published at the same time so that a systematic and more detailed exposition of Islam, as reinterpreted in our age by Hazrat Ahmad, the Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement, should become available to those interested in the study of Islam.
In this treatise the author has exhaustively dealt with such important and vital subjects as the Conception of God, His relation to man and the means of its expression, and the realization and attainment of Communion with God. He has discussed the teachings of Islam on morals and has illustrated the means provided by Islam to acquire good morals. Under social aspects, the author has explained Islamic teachings about different relationships in various spheres within the family, the community, between partners in business, between government and the people, between different nations and States, etc. He has set out the Islamic point of view regarding the nature of the human soul and the object of its creation. The author has also explained what Islam teaches about the life after death, the rewards and punishments of that life and the nature of heaven and hell. The fact that the author has meticulously and extensively supported and documented his representation of Islam from the text of the Holy Quran and Hadith, the sayings of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (sas) places this unique dissertation among the most authentic works on Islam.
The book was written in Urdu and was rendered into English by the Honourable Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan, formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan at present President, International Court of Justice, The Hague (Holland). It is hoped that the work will fill an increasingly felt need among the students of Islam in America and other English speaking lands.
Mirza Mubarak Ahmad
Secretary
Ahmadiyya Muslim Foreign Missions,
Tahrik-e-Jadid Anjuman Ahmadiyya Pakistan (Regd.)
Rabwah, Pakistan