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177 Ghul a m Ahmad himself was unable to attend in person, was read by one of his able scholars Munsh i Abdul Karim of Sialkot. The lecture on December 27, which lasted for about three and a half hours, was listened to with rapt attention, though so far it dealt only with the first question. The President and the Executive Committee resolved to extend their sitting to December 29 to enable the completion of the essay. ” Newspaper, Chaudhv in S ad i (Rawalpindi ) : “The best of these lectures was that of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani. . . The audience was so fascinated by this lecture that sometime each and every sentence was applauded, and on occasions, there was a demand for reading the sentence again and again. Some people left with the visible impression that they had not heard a lecture like this before… We are not followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib, but we cannot do injustice to him. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib described the Divine philosophy in such a convincing way that people were spell-bound by the beauty of the teachings of Islam…” …The Bristol Times and Mirror writes: “Clearly it is no ordinary person who thus addresses himself to the West. ” …The Indian Review writes: “A very entertaining and pleasant reading, lucid, comprehensive and philosophical. . . evokes admiration. The book deserves to be in the hands of every Mu h ammadan student and also in the libraries of those who wish to know something about Mu h ammadan religion. ” …The Spiritual Journal , Boston: “Pure Gospel. ” This remarkable epoch-making essay, “The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam,” has now been translated into over sixty languages including Arabic, English (under the title of The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam ), Burmese, Chinese, French, German, Gurmukhi, Hindi, Indonesian, Persian, Spanish, Swahili and many more.