Tasnif Style Guide — Page 222
222 TAŞNIF STYLE GUIDE ra raḍiyallahu 'anhu/anhã/'anhum, meaning 'may Allah be pleased with him/her/them', is written after the names of the Companions of the Holy Prophet Muhammadsas and the Promised Messiah as. rta rahmatullah 'alaihi/'alaiha/'alaihim, meaning 'may Allah shower His mercy upon him/her/them', is written after the names of those deceased pious Muslims who are not Companions of the Holy Prophet Muhammad as or the Promised Messiah as. aba ayyadabullahu Ta'ala binasrihil-'Aziz, meaning 'may Allah the Almighty help him with His pow- erful support', is written after the name of the pres- ent head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hadrat Mirza Masroor Ahmadaba, Masiḥ V. Khalifatul- Readers are urged to recite the full salutations when reading the book. In general, we have adopted the following system estab- lished by the Royal Asiatic Society for our transliteration. 1 at the beginning of a word, pronounced as a, i, u preceded by a very slight aspiration, like ↳ in the English word honour. th-pronounced like th in the English word thing. b て - a guttural aspirate, stronger than h. خ kh-pronounced like the Scottish ch in loch. dh-pronounced like the English th in that.