Translated from "The Philosophy of the Teachings Of Islam" by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani, The Promised Massiah (as). Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was born on February 20, 1835 at Qadian, an outlying small town about 70 miles to the north east of Lahore. His family was of Persian origin and had been settled at Samarkand in Central Asia. In the first half of the I6th century, his ancestor, Mirza Hadi Beg, moved from Samarkand into India together with a couple of hundred retainers and settled in the Eastern Punjab, where he founded the township which eventually became known as Qadian. As Mirza Hadi Beg was, at third or fourth remove, a cousin of Emperor Babar, he was appointed Judge (Qazi) and administrator of a sizeable tract of land which comprised over 100 villages around Qadian. The t