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! 47 Establ ishment of the scheme for Translation of the Holy Quran On October 20, 1944, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II (ra) launched a new scheme for translation of the Holy Quran. Under this scheme , Holy Quran was to be translated in seven important languages of the wo rld and one book was to be published on Jama ’ at literature. He explained this new scheme in three or four sermons and asked for 28,000 rupees to be raised for each translation of the Holy Quran. He assigned [donations for] one translation, each to be arra nged by the following: 1. Qadian Jama ’ at 2. Lajna Imaillah 3. Halqa Lahore 4. Halqa Frontier Province 5. Halqa Calcutta 6. Halqa Delhi 7. Halqa Hyderabad The languages in which Holy Quran was to be translated were assigned as follows: Italian translation assigned to Qadian Jam a ’ at; German language assigned to Lajna; French translation assigned to Delhi; Spanish translation assigned to Frontier Province; Portuguese translation assigned to Hyderabad Deccan; Russian translation assigned to Lahore Jama ’ at. 35 As soon as this scheme for translation of Holy Quran was launched, Jama ’ at members started making great strides in financial contributions. Some poor !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! 35 Hadrat MIrza Bashir - ud - Din Mahmud Ahmad, Friday Sermon, 14 November 1944