Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement

by A. R. Dard

Life of Ahmad is a biography detailing the life and times of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad^(as) of Qadian, India, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi and the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at (Community). It was written by a young companion of his, Hazrat Maulana Abdur Rahim Dard M.A., and was first published in 1948. He covered the life of the Promised Messiah^(as) up until 1901 but was unable to complete the work.

Life of Ahmad is not a biography in the traditional sense. Not only does it provide an insight into this extraoridnary life but also addresses a number of important issues, such as: Jihad in Islam, Prophethood in Islam, Jesus in India and the question of the status of Arabic as the mother of all languages.

This is a very important contribution to the literature of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, written as it was by a companion and contemporary of the Promised Messiah^(as).