Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, in the short space of eighteen years (1890-1908) not only had revolutionized many of the existing religious ideas but had taken definite steps in an entirely new direction - the presenting of Islam to, and the spiritual conquest of, the West.

Deep religious mysteries, which had baffled human minds for centuries, had been unraveled. The second advent of Christ, the tribulation of the Anti-Christ, the prevalence of Gog and Magog, the coming of the Mahdi and similar other topics were mysteries which affected the two great religions of the world, Christianity and Islam, both contending for the mastery of the world, and an inspired man was indeed needed to lift the veil from the face of these mysteries.

Such a man was Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835 -1908) He was gifted not only with inspiration to elucidate the deepest mysteries, but also with the faith and energy, which enabled him to give a new direction to the dissemination of Islam, which had hitherto found the West deaf to its message.