The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page xv
Publishers' Note XV the original text, checking the references, inserting verses of the Holy Qur'an, as well as Arabic and Persian texts, and transliterating non-English words. Chaudhry Şahib was assisted by Zulqarnain, Rājā 'Atā-ul-Mannān, Tahir Mahmood Mubashar and Kashif Imran. The publishers also acknowledge with gratitude the help given by the followings to prepare the second edition for publications: Abdul Quddus Fouzi, Abdul-Wahab Mirza, Ahmad Saeed and Hannanah, Ata-ul-Aziz, Hamed Saeed, Anser Ahmed and Uzma, Dr. Fazal Ahmad, Fouzan Pal, Imran Hye and Hifza, Dr. Karimullah Zirvi, Masood Toor, Mazher Ahmad and Maryam, Muhammad Dawood Khokhar, Nur-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, Salman Muhammad Sajid, Syed Saadat Ahmad, Rizwan Khan, Tariq Amjed, Usama Malik, Usman Khan and Usman Nasir Choudhary. All references, unless otherwise noted, are from the Holy Qur'an. In the text, the references to the Holy Qur'an are given exactly as they were given in the original writings. In the footnotes, references are given using the name of the Surah followed by the modern numerical system. In these references, we have counted Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim as the first verse and have used the numerical sys- tem in which the first number refers to the Surah and the second number refers to the Ayah. References to the Books of the Promised MessiahAs are based on the London Edition of the Ruhani Khazā'in published in 1984. An exception is Taş- dīq-un-Nabī, which was published in the form of Three Questions of a Christian Answered by Anjuman Himā- yat-i-Islām. This predates the Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya and is