The Victory of Islam is the English rendering of Fath-e-Islam, an Urdu treatise penned in 1890 by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, peace be on him. It outlines the divinely ordained strategy to combat the aggressive misinformation campaigns orchestrated by Christian missionaries throughout the Muslim world. The Promised Messiah, peace be on him, urges the Muslim ummah to wake up and seize the moment at hand by supporting his movement in defence of Islam.
Exhaustive deliberations and plans were orchestrated by Christian missionary societies to malign and manipulate Islamic teachings and to exploit the ignorance of the masses. These well-funded efforts initially met with unprecedented success, converting many Muslims to Christianity. Muslim scholars were unable to defend Islam against this onslaught and several renowned maulawis themselves embraced the Christian faith. It appeared to be only a matter of time before the entire land of India would follow suit.
It was at this time that the Promised Messiah, peace be on him, was appointed by Allah the Almighty to begin a movement to institute and execute a strategy of five campaigns which he outlined in his groundbreaking work, The Victory of Islam:
Publishing books
Distributing leaflets
Hosting guests and visitors in search of truth
Replying to letters of inquiry
Establishing a community through bai‘at (initiation)
Through these five campaigns, the Promised Messiah(as) was not only able to effectively defend Islam and the Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, against widespread slanders, but he also took the offensive by illustrating the fundamental weaknesses of the Christian faith and how it deviated from the true teachings of Jesus, peace be on him. The Promised Messiah, peace be on him, had sown the seed of what would one day sprout into a powerful Muslim missionary movement to spread the true teachings of Islam and peace throughout the world.
Al-Haj Munir-ud-Din Shams
Additional Wakilut-Tasnif, London
January 2022