The Holy War — Page xviii
Publisher’s Note Please note that, in the translation that follows, words given in paren- theses ( ) are the words of the original debaters who penned the papers. 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]’. This book contains certified writings from both Muslims and Christians with Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian representing the former, and Deputy Abdullah Atham, pensioner, representing the latter. To ensure that readers can easily distinguish between the two we have inserted grey sidebars alongside the latter. As would be expected in a debate scenario, the papers involve complex iterations of back-and-forth rebuttals between the debaters. To facilitate readability and to clarify the certitude of references cited by the debaters, we distinguished formal direct quotes by employing either block quotes or quotation marks [‘ ’], whereas the more casual conversational paraphrasing was distinguished using italics. 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 count Bismill a hir-Ra h m a nir-Ra hi m (‘In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful’) as the first verse in every chapter that begins with it. All references taken from the Bible are from the King James Version (KJV). The following abbreviations have been used: s as s allall a hu ‘alaihi wa sallam, meaning ‘may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him’, is written after the name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad s as.