A Great Victory for Ahmadiyyat — Page viii
[ x ] Since much of our literature is currently being confis- cated by the government of Pakistan, sincere seekers of truth may have difficulty finding the answers. This series of Friday sermons present the response to these allegations by Hadrat Mirz a Ta hir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih IV rta , the then Imam of the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at, to these allegations. This response to the White Paper was first published in Urdu in 1985 and the English translation is being published now. This sermon was delivered on May 17, 1985 at the Fa d l Mosque, London; it deals with the status of the deci- sion by a numerical majority under Islamic law. The translation of this Friday sermon was done by Dr. Nasim Rehmatullah. The translation team headed by— Munawar Ahmed Saeed, under the direction of Additional Vak a lat-e-Ta s n i f London—finalized this series of Friday sermons for publication. Important contributions were made by Fouzia Shah, Karimullah Zir v i, Luqman Mahmood and several other team members. M ay Allah bless them all. A m i n. This book uses the following system of transliteration adopted by the Royal Asiatic Society. at the beginning of a word, pronounced as a , i , u pre- ceded by a very slight aspiration, like h in the English word honour.