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PUBLISHER'S NOTE. Th, a guttural aspirate, stronger than h. Ċ kh, pronounced like the Scotch ch in “loch'. › dh, pronounced like the English th in ‘that', 'with'. ș, strongly articulated s. d, similar to the English th in 'this'. bt, strongly articulated platal t. bz, strongly articulated z. . E 'a, a strong guttural, the pronunciation of which must be learnt by the ear. È gh, a sound approached very nearly in the r'grasseyé' in French, and in the German r. It requires the muscles of the throat to be in the 'gargling' position whilst pronouncing it. q, a deep guttural k sound. > a', a sort of catch in the voice. . I. Short vowels are represented by a for✓ (like u in 'bud'); i for (like i in 'bid')' u for- (like oo in 'wood'); the long vowels by a for or T (like a in 'father'); 7 for ✓ (like s ee in 'deep'); ai for s― (like i in ‘site'); ū for ✰ (like oo in ‘root'); au for,, - (resembling ou in ‘sound'). . The consonants not included in the above list have the same phonetic value as in English. . There are, however, some proper nouns that have not been spelt according to the above rules of transliteration in our earlier literature. We have left them unchanged. The same applies to the titles like Hazrat. When a reference is given to an earlier book, we always follow the transliteration employed in that book. Many extensively used proper nouns have been spelt differently by different authors. We spell them as follows: the Quran, Muhammad,. Ahmad. . Since the word 'Surah' is now accepted in English to indicate one of the 114 Chapters of the Holy Quran, we prefer to use Surah when referring to the Quran and chapter when referring to sections of this or any other book. We hope this will avoid any possible confusion to the reader. viii