Your Royal Highness,

This book is a present which the members of the Ahmadiyya Community who, number over half-a-million, desire to present to Your Royal Highness in token of welcome on the occasion of Your Royal Highness’s visit to India.

The cost of preparing this Present has been defrayed from the contributions of 32,208 members of the community. Owing to the shortness of the period during which this Present has been prepared, the rest of the members of the community have not been able to participate in the cost of its preparation. But every member of the community heartily joins in making this Present to Your Royal Highness in accordance with the teachings of the Holy Founder of the Movement.

It is hoped that Your Royal Highness will honour the community by accepting this Present and will graciously grant the request made by so many of the most loyal and faithful subjects of Your Royal and Imperial Father and Peruse this book at least once from beginning to end.

Your Royal Highness’s most obedient servant,
MIRZA MAHMUD AHMAD,
Head of the Ahmadiyya Community,

QUADIAN,
GURDASPUR,
PUNJAB, INDIA.