``The great catastrophies befalling the world of Islam compelled me to go to Qadian to see whether the Ahmadi Jama`at, which for so long has been claiming that it shall conquer the world for Islam by means of a literary and missionary struggle, is actually capable of doing so…What I saw in Ahmadi Qadian was pure and sincere service of the One God, and wherever one's sight turned there was the Quran. In short, I found the Ahmadi Jama`at of Qadian in a practical sense to be true to a very great extent in its claim that it can spread Islam in the world in a peaceful way by means of preaching and propagation, and that it is a Jama`at which in today's world is a true follower of the Quran, purely for the sake of God, and a lover of Islam. If all the Muslims of the world, especially India, help them practically in the propagation of Islam in Europe, then certainly the European continent would light up with the rays of the sun of Islam, and this blood-thirsty Christianity, which, to satisfy the appetites of its materialistic disciples, is bent upon destroying Muslim countries and effacing Islam from the world, would face manifest defeat by this means.''

(From Ahmadiyya newspaper Badr, 13 March 1913)