Lecture Ludhiana is the lecture delivered by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, (1835-1908), on 4 November 1905 at Ludhiana — a town in Punjab, India.
This lecture is important for a number of reasons, the chief being the presentation of the Ahmadiyya viewpoint on true Islam, against the backdrop of persistent disinformation spread by the Muslim clerics and other vested interests. It analyses in detail the hardship and opposition faced by the Promised Messiah, the divine promises revealed to him, and the glorious fulfilment of these promises.
It also covers an entire spectrum of other topics ranging from Jihad to the importance of prayer, and a detailed analysis of the death and Second Coming of Jesus(as).
This English version is being published for the first time. It has been translated from the Urdu original by Professor Mian Muhammad Afzal and revised and edited by Professor Muhammad Ali Chaudhry and Mr. Kanwar Idris, assisted by Zulkarnain and Raja Ata-ul-Mannan.
In this translation, the name Muhammad or his title ‘Holy Prophet’, is generally followed by the symbol (sa) for the salutation Sal-Lalaho ‘Alaihi wa Sallam, meaning ‘May peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.’ The names of other prophets are followed by the symbol (as) for ‘Alaihis-Salam, meaning ‘Peace be on him’. Similarly, the names of the Companions of the Holy Prophet(sa) are followed by the symbol (rz) for Raziya-Allaho ‘Anho, which means ‘May Allah be pleased with him’. In most places the actual salutations have not been set out in full for the sake of brevity. Muslim readers should treat the full salutation as implicit.
Some verses of the Holy Qur’an quoted in this book have not been translated by the Author. The translation of these verses has, therefore, been given in footnotes. For this purpose, we have followed the English rendering of the Holy Qur’an by Hazrat Maulvi Sher Ali Sahib.
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