Ahmadiyyat Is Not a New Religion — Page 8
8 Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad to Paris, representatives from Parisian newspapers also joined us. In short, newspaper editors came day and night to learn about us. These were not ordinary journalists but professionals earning ten to twenty times the salary of our newspaper editors. Similarly, Al-Fazl must practice more diligence in providing Jamā‘at news. Anyone who reads my Friday sermons in the paper with a keen eye will notice a pattern: one long, one short. Just as the tertian fever rises one day and declines the next, my sermons alternate between long and short. Anyone who missed this observation can verify it by checking Al-Fazl and noting this recurring pattern. One transcriber accurately records my entire sermon, but the other only records it partially and omits various parts. Friends can compare the sermons upon their return home and observe the stark difference in length from week to week. I have noticed that sometimes, even a sermon I took ten fewer minutes to deliver appears longer in the paper than one I spent ten extra minutes on. This error occurs because one transcriber is inept at this task. Not everyone is capable of being a transcriber. This person might be a good editor, but he certainly cannot transcribe. The issue remains ignored despite my pointing it