AU Syasy sre all STS THE TEACHINGS OF ISLAM A SOLUTION OF FIVE FUNDAMENTAL RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS FROM THE MUSLIM POINT OF VIEW BY MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD (of Qadian, India) FOUNDER OF THE AHMADIYYA MOVEMENT AND AUTHOR OF NEARLY SEVENTY WORKS ON ISLAM. LONDON LUZAC & Co. 46, GREAT RUSSELL STREET 1910 www.aaiil.orgTHE TEACHINGS OF ISLAMPREFACE. The paper which now appears in the form of this booklet was originally written in Urdoo by the late Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi and the founder of the Ahma- diyya movement in Islam, and it was read at the Great Religious Conference held at Lahore (Punjab) in December 1896 by one of his devoted votaries, the late Maulvi Abdul Karim. In the English lan- guage it first appeared in instalments in the Review of Religions in 1902 and 1903. The paper discusses from a Muslim’s point of view the five subjects selected for discussion by the conveners of the con- ference. These five subjects related to (1) the phy- sical, moral and spiritual conditions of man, (2) the state of man in the after-life, (3) the real object of the existence of man and the means ofits attainment, (4) the effect of actions in the present life and the life to come, and (5) the sources of Divine knowledge. This little volume is primarily intended to help in the diffusion of the teachings of Islam in the West. It lays no claim to give a comprehensive