The original was written in Urdu with the title Islami Usool ki Philosophy, in order to be read at the Conference of Great Religions held at Lahore on December 26–29, 1896.
It explicitly deals with the following five broad themes with detail set by the moderators of the Conference: The subjects of the soul, the threefold reformation of man, what is moral quality?
[1] In 1896, during the Christmas Holidays a Hindu named Swami Sadhu Shugan Chandra convened a conference of Great Religions at Lahore.
Among those who attended the conference were representatives of Hinduism, Freethought, the Theosophical Society, Christianity, Islam and Sikhism as well as various scholars, barristers, lawyers, professor, doctors and extra assistants, who numbered between 7 and 8 thousand.
The speech representing Islam was the essay written by Gulam Ahmad and though he could not attend himself due to poor health, it was read out by his disciple Mawlwi Abdul Karim.