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XX Other vowels by: ai for au for و THE LIGHT OF TRUTH-PARTS I & II (like i in site). (resembling ou in sound). The consonants not included in the above list have the same phonetic value as in the principal languages of Europe. While the Arabic ن is represented by n, we have indicated the Urdu ں as ń. As noted above, the single quotation mark is used for transliterating which is distinct from the apostrophe’used for ء We have not transliterated some Arabic words which have become part of English language, e. g. Islam, Quran, Hadith, Mahdi, jihad, Ramadan, and ummah. The Royal Asiatic Society's rules of transliter- ation for names of persons, places, and other terms, are not followed throughout the book as many of the names contain non-Arabic charac- ters and carry a local transliteration and pronunciation style.