Malfuzat – Volume X — Page xxix
Foreword The Malfuzat are a compilation of discourses, letters and narrations of the Promised Messiah, may peace of Allah be upon him. They offer a unique insight into the interactions between the Promised Messiah as and his eager audiences—great and small—and how his Divinely inspired wisdom and intellect quenched the souls of a world thirst- ing for guidance. These indescribably enchanting experiences com- pelled eyewitnesses to record them in an attempt to seize those special moments for future generations, in the hopes that they might some- what behold the magnetic aura radiating from the long awaited Imam of the Age. This present edition of Malfuzat is the complete English transla- tion of the Urdu Volume 10, and covers the period from November 1907 through May 1908. This period represents the last several months of the Promised Messiah’s life and testifies to his selfless dedication and tireless efforts to bring about the victory of Islam over ignorance right up to his final breath. Upon reading these accounts, one cannot help but feel an immense debt of gratitude for the revolutionary ideas and innovative arguments with which he quickened a nation that was all but dead. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all who worked to bring this work to fruition. A preliminary translation was drafted by the late Lutfur Rahman. This was used as a basis for a new transla- tion performed by Khalil Malik and Naser-ud-Din Shams. This man- uscript was then verified against the Urdu by Waseem Ahmad Sayed,