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Foreword Translatord's Note Introduction Lecture 1 : Permanent Values Lecture 2 : The Laws of Requital Lecture 3 : God is Never Unjust Lecture 4 : The Individual and The Community Lecture 5 : How Individuals Become A Community Lecture 6 : Government Belongs To The Community FOREWORD Ghulam Ahmad Parwez was born in 1903 in Batala, now in the Punjab province of India and at one time a prominent seat of Islamic learning, the Quran and the classics of Islam - a celebrated scholar and eminent conventional Islam, including the ancient discipline of (Muslim mysticism) with its arduous practical course of meditation and solitary spiritual This comprehensive grounding in the traditional religious ideas of Muslim society formed the basis of Mr. Parwez’of Islam was informed by the beliefs and practices of pre-Islamic religions and a wider knowledge of human thought throughout the ages. However, he was inspired to question the prevailing beliefs of his community and to move away from the embellishments, which have accumulated around Islam over the a widespread critical movement in Pakistan among the intelligentsia and genesimilar thinking further afield. The central organ of this movement – the monthly “Tulu-e-Islam” (the Islamic Dawn) – is avidly studied at home and After his retirement, he engaged in the service of the movement until his death in 1985. it was in this capacity that he worked as a member of the Islamic Laws Commission, appointed under the