Malfuzat – Volume I — Page xxvii
Preface It is by the sheer grace and mercy of Allah Almighty, and the blessings and guidance of Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih V (may Allah be his Helper) that the first volume of Malfuzat-Sayings & Discourses of the Promised Messiah as is being published in English. This translation is based on the new ten-volume typed edition of Malfuzat prepared and published by Nazarat-e-Isha’at Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya in 2016; and the present volume in English spans from 1891 to October of 1898. A collection of sayings and discourses of the Promised Messiah (as) was first published in the form of a complete set by Al-Shirkatul Islamiyyah in ten volumes. Subsequently, Nazarat-e-Isha'at published the content of this ten-volume set in five volumes. Following this, Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih V (may Allah be his Helper) instructed that a computerised typeset edition of Malfuzat be prepared. He stated that the books in the five-volume set of Malfuzat were heavy and uneasy to handle; therefore, the five-volume Malfuzat should be printed in ten volumes again. In light of these instructions, a new typeset edition of Malfuzat was prepared and published in ten volumes. In the preparation of this most recent typeset edition, the original sources from Al-Hakam and Al-Badr Qadian were studied and every effort was made to include any spoken words of the Promised Messiah, on whom be j peace, which had been missed from inclusion previously. Hence, due to this effort there were certain sayings and discourses of the Promised Messiah, which had not previously been included in the collection known as Malfuzat; and so they have now been added to this new edition. In view of the guidance of Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih V (may Allah be his Helper), wherever there are differences in the reports of Al-Hakam and Al-Badr, these have been recorded in footnotes. The relevant words have been recorded as footnotes in a manner that the context of the respective text is clear. Therefore, in