A Message of Peace — Page iv
M ESSAGE OF P EACE iv Mirz a Masroor Ahmad aba , the present Head of the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at. Other members of the USA translation team who made valuable contributions to this revi- sion include Ahmad Ta riq and ‘Abdul Wahab Mirz a. May Allah bestow them the best reward for this. 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 preceded by a very slight aspiration, like h in the English word honour. th , pronounced like th in the English word thing. h , a guttural aspirate, stronger than h. kh , pronounced like the Scotch ch in loch. dh , pronounced like the English th in that. s , strongly articulated s. d , similar to the English th in this. t , strongly articulated palatal t. z , strongly articulated z. ‘, a strong guttural sound, the pronunciation of which must be learnt by the ear. gh , a sound approached very nearly by r in the French grasseye and also the German r. It requires