The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam
- The Ahmadiyya Movement is the most dynamic organisation within the vast body of Islam today.
- The Movement was founded in March 1889 by Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835 - 1908) of Qadian, India. ... Its branches are spread around the globe and it is acknowledged as the most powerful living force within contemporary Islam. The number of its adherents and its significance in the world of religion are daily, almost hourly, on the increase. No student of religion can afford to neglect or ignore it.
- The Movement is established at the very centre of Islam and represents the essence of Islam, shorn of all encrustations that have through the centuries gradually been patched upon the body of Islam and have thus defaced and disfigured it. The Movement does not depart from Islam in the very least, nor does it add one iota to the doctrines and teachings of Islam. Yet it is a fresh presentation of Islam, and more particularly of the wisdom and the philosophy that underlies its doctrines and teachings based upon and deriving entirely from the Holy Quran and the pronouncements and practice of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) of Islam. It is not a new religion nor is it an innovation. It sets forth only that which has been inherent in Islam from the very beginning, but which had been overlaid in the last few centuries or the need of which had not yet arisen.
FOREWARD by Mirza Mubarak Ahmad, Rabwah, Pakistan
Excerpt from "Ahmadiyyat, The Rennaisance of Islam" by Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan.