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Acknowledgements. HE LIST OF THOSE who have helped me during the writing of this book and after it was finished is long. But their memories are printed on my heart with loving care. . At different stages, different people were involved. . Most of them could do no more than make an effort to faithfully translate the original Urdu version. Their labour was not altogether lost. Every time I critically examined any translation, invariably new ideas were born to be incorporated in the book. Also, after every critical examination of their translations, I decided to change the sequence of the discussions to a better one. Thus I journeyed from version to version which was a climbing spiral like the path of evolution. Hopefully, with this final version, I have reached the summit. . During all these stages, there were so many scholars and technocrats who were involved, not for the work of translation, but in things which I could not have handled alone. For instance, I needed to retrieve certain passages from books or articles I had read during the last forty years of my life. They were so varied that they belonged to all the subjects discussed in my work, which the reader can realize are not a mere few. Libraries had to be combed by scholars belonging to different continents and cities. . From Rabwah, the headquarters of the Ahmadiyya. Muslim Community, many learned scholars were involved in retracing the religious references. . From America, it was Professor Malik Masood. Ahmad and his team who were required to trace many references which belonged mainly to Scientific American and American Scientist of the last twenty years or so. His team was selected from Ahmadi scholars from all over ix