Tasnif Style Guide — Page 80

80 TAŞNİF STYLE GUIDE Some complex situations may arise that combine dialogue and direct and paraphrased references. These situations should be decided in collaboration with Additional Wakālat-e-Taşnif. As an example, the book Jang-e-Muqaddas [The Holy War] documents the debate proceedings between the Promised Messiah as and Deputy Abdullah Atham. As would be expected in a debate scenario, the papers involve complex iterations of back- and-forth rebuttals between the debaters. As the debaters articu- lated their arguments, several of their statements included an una- voidable and intricate weaving of references that are either direct quotes, or conversational paraphrasing of actual statements or hypothetical scenarios. To facilitate readability and to clarify the certitude of references cited by the debaters, we distinguished for- mal direct quotes by employing either block quotes or quotation marks [''], whereas the more casual conversational paraphrasing was distinguished using italics. Although the latter is a devia- tion of our traditional style of using quotation marks for quoted material or dialogue, these extraordinary circumstances called for extraordinary measures. Thus, these words of the Holy Quran that everything comes into being by My very command were used to establish the absolute Unity of God. To conclude from such verses that man is compelled is to explain a statement with which the reciter تفسير القول بما لا يرضا به قائله is not satisfied]. And by observing God Almighty's law of nature, it is