Islam’s Response to Contemporary Issues is a lecture delivered at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre (London) by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad^rh, the Fourth Khalifa of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Based on Quranic teachings, the author argues that:

1. Swords can win territories but not hearts, force can bend heads but not minds;
2. The role of women is not of concubines in harems nor a society imprisoned in the four walls of their homes;
3. Richer nations provide aid with strings attached and yet the flow of wealth continues to be in the direction of the rich while the poorer sink deeper in the red;
4. Religion does not need to be the predominant legislative authority in the political affairs of a state;
5. Irrespective of the thawing of the Cold War, the issue of war and peace does not only hang by the thread of superpower relationship;
6. Without God, there can be no peace.

It also contains comprehensive discussion on interest; financial aid; international relations; and the role of Israel, America and the United Kingdom in a new world order.

It is a compulsory read for non-Muslims as well as for those Muslims who have forgotten the true message of Islam.