Defence Against the Plague and a Criterion for the Elect of God — Page 49
Publisher’s Note Please note that, in the translation that follows, words given in parentheses ( ) are the words of the Promised Messiah as. If any explanatory words or phrases are added by the translators for the purpose of clarification, they are put in square brackets [ ]. Footnotes given by the publisher are marked ‘[Publisher]’. The translator’s primary objective was to adhere to the author’s original text as strictly as possible. Contemporary nine - teenth century classical lexicons were utilised to precisely define Urdu, Arabic, and Persian words and phrases. To preserve the author’s writing style, and particularly his points of emphasis, we have retained his original underlined and bold text styling as well as exclamation marks, including end punctuation for rhetorical questions. However, to facilitate readability for an English speak - ing audience, punctuation and pauses were inserted as needed, and longer paragraphs were broken into smaller ones. References to the Holy Quran contain the name of the s u rah [i. e. chapter] followed by a chapter:verse citation, e. g. s u rah al-Jumu‘ah, 62:4, and counts Bismill a hir-Ra h m a nir-Ra h im [In