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ix Amatullah Khurshid Memorial Fund With great humility, I express my deepest gratitude to All a h the Exalted who has enabled us to prepare this book as part of Amatullah Kurshid Memorial Fund. This fund was set up by the revered and great scholar of the Ahmadiyya Community Maul a n a Abul ‘A ta J a lundhr i in memory of his pious and dedicated eldest daughter Amatullah. Mrs Amatullah Khurshid was a highly learned scholar. She completed a 4-year course in Theology or religious education. She graduated (Maulaw i F ad il) from the University of Punjab. She served Lajnah in many capacities since 1945. She had the honour to serve as the Secretary I s l ah o-Irsh a d for Lajnah Im a ’illah Qadian. Mrs Amatullah Khurshid was appointed in 1947 as the first woman editor of Mi s b ah (meaning a lamp or source of light) the first ever magazine dedicated for the education of Ahmadi women. She had the privilege to serve as the Editor of Mi s b ah for 15 years, right up to the time of her death. She had no children and regarded Mi s b ah as her