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C ONDITIONS OF B AI ‘ AT AND R ESPONSIBILITIES OF AN A H MAD I xviii Mahd i —‘The guided one. ’ This is the title given by the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa to the awaited Reformer of the Latter Days. Maul ana or Maulav i —A Muslim religious cleric. Nik ah —The announcement of marriage in Islam. Mullah —A Muslim religious cleric. Muttaq i —A term in Arabic that literally means ‘righteous person’. Nafs —A term in Arabic that literally means ‘self ’. Nafs-e-’Amm a rah —A term in the Holy Qur’an that liter- ally means ‘the self that incites to evil’. Naw a fil —Optional or supererogatory Prayers. (The) Promised Messiah —This term refers to the Founder of the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as of Qadian. He claimed that he had been sent by Allah in accordance with the prophecies of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa concerning the coming of al-Imam al-Mahd i and Messiah from among the Muslims. Purdah —From the Hindi term parda , which literally means ‘veil’; a state of seclusion or concealment. Rak‘at— One unit of formal worship prescribed in Islam. Plural of rak‘at is rak‘ a t. Ruk u ‘ —The bowing down position in the Prayer.