A Message of Peace is the last book written by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Mīrzā Ghulām Aḥmad was a religious figure from India and the founder of the Ahmadiyya Community. He claimed to be the Mujaddid of the 14th Islamic century, the promised Messiah , and the Mahdi awaited by the Muslims in the end days...

, the founder of the Ahmadiyya

Ahmadiyya

Ahmadiyya is an Islamic religious revivalist movement founded in India near the end of the 19th century, originating with the life and teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , who claimed to have fulfilled the prophecies about the world reformer of the end times, who was to herald the Eschaton as...

 movement in Islam. The book was completed on 25 May 1908, a day earlier before his demise. The book was originally written in the Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 language and has been translated to English.

Background

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad wrote this fifty page book in two days, finishing it a day before his demise of May 26, 1908. He had planned to read this piece of work on May 26, 1908 at Ahmadiyya Building in Lahore. However, he died after a very brief illness. It was, however, published in a booklet form.

Synopsis

The main focus relayed in this booklet by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is the gap between the Hindus and Muslims of India due to the mutual hatred and differences in cultures. In this, he made a fervent urgent appeal and declared that the teaching of Islam inculcates respect and reverence for each other's religious values and sensibilities. Moreover, he states the spiritual statuses of Rama

Rama

Rama or full name Ramachandra is considered to be the seventh avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism, and a king of Ayodhya in ancient Indian...

 , Chanderji and Krishna

Krishna

Krishna is a central figure of Hinduism and is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Bhagavad Gita. He is the supreme Being and considered in some monotheistic traditions as an Avatar of Vishnu...

, as divine saints and the Vedas

Vedas

The Vedas are a large body of texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism....

as being one of many books of God.

External links

• A Message of Peace