خطبات طاہر (جلد 10۔ 1991ء) — Page 1017
1017 Friday Sermon 7th, June 1991 at Trinidad I am facing a dilemma today because I have been told that many among you cannot understand Urdu۔The dilemma is that ever since I have left Pakistan around 7 years ago plus some months I have always delivered my sermons in Urdu for the sake of those Ahmadies left in Pakistan who have this link between me and them and who are so accustomed to hearing me directly on Fridays۔Also there are other Ahmadies in India and Kashmir particularly who speak and understand Urdu well, also a large number of Ahmadies who reside in Europe around 30 to 40 thousand of them understand Urdu but do not understand English, so that is why my Sermons have always been in Urdu but fortunately there have been simultaneous arrangements for translation in English in England and other European countries, and in America and Canada also, there are always simultaneous translations but here there is no such arrangement۔So in view of this, I have been persuaded very strongly that I make just one exception today and deliver my sermon in English۔If I do that and I think I should do that then I leave the series of lectures on Namaz (Prayer) and the Quranic Prayers, particularly which are preserved for the mankind with a special purpose, I have been speaking