Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claimed to be the Mujaddid of the fourteenth century Hijra and to fulfil in his person the prophecies of Islam relating to the coming of the Messiah among the Muslims. (ahmadiyya.org)

Paigham Sulh, or a "Message of Peace", was written by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in the last two or three days of his life in May 1908, while he was staying at Lahore where he spent the last month of his life. It is an appeal addressed to the Hindus and Muslims of India to rid themselves of the mutual hatred, enmity and bigotry between the two communities by showing respect for each other's religions.

Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claimed to be the Mujaddid of the fourteenth century Hijra and to fulfil in his person the prophecies of Islam relating to the coming of the Messiah among the Muslims. (ahmadiyya.org)

"Probably no man living has done longer or more valuable service for the cause of Islamic revival than Maulana Muhammad Ali of Lahore. His literary works, with those of the late Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din, have given fame and distinction to the Ahmadiyya Movement. In our opinion the present volume is his finest work. … It is a description of Al-Islam by one well-versed in the Sunna who has on his mind the shame of the Muslim decadence of the past five centuries and in his heart the hope of the revival, of which signs can now be seen on every side." - Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, regarding the book (The Religion of Islam) from which this episode has been excerpted. - (Wikipedia).

Sheikh Sharif Ahmad was Imam at the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha'at-e-Islam Lahore (UK).

Maulana Sadr-ud-Din (Urdu: مولانا صدر الدین; died 14–15 November 1981) became the first missionary of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-i-Islam Lahore in the Wilmersdorfer Moschee (Berlin Mosque) in 1922. (Wikipedia)

"Hugo Marcus (1880-1966) was, and perhaps remains, the most important theorist of European Islam; he forged an intellectual construct in which the rationality of the Islamic tradition was blended with European philosophy’s most outstanding rational traditions." (Gerdien Jonker, The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress, Brill, 2006)

"Hugo Marcus (1880-1966) was, and perhaps remains, the most important theorist of European Islam; he forged an intellectual construct in which the rationality of the Islamic tradition was blended with European philosophy’s most outstanding rational traditions." (Gerdien Jonker, The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress, Brill, 2006)

Mr. William Bashyr Pickard is of British and French descent, born in London on July 31, 1889. He took an Honours degree in classics; entered the Colonial Civil Service under the Uganda Protectorate Administration in 1912, but resigned later on, and enlisted in Middlesex Yeomanry on the outbreak of the First Great War. He saw active service in France with the Middlesex Regiment and the 53rd French Mortar Battery. On the conclusion of peace he was repatriated and entered the Government service, obtaining an appointment as Assistant Administrative Officer in the Profiteering Act Department under the Board of Trade, which he resigned later and resumed his studies at the University College, London.

Mr. Bashyr Pickard declared his faith in Islam in January 1922. Since then he has been in close touch with the Mosque, Woking. (AAIIL)