Tasnif Style Guide — Page 226
226 TAŞNİF STYLE GUIDE ra radiyallahu anhu/anhaa/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/alaihaa/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 sas or the Promised Messiah as. aba ayyadahullahu Taa'ala binasrihil-Aziz, meaning 'may Allah the Almighty help him with His powerful sup- port', is written after the name of the present head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hadrat Mirza Masroor Ahmadaba, Khalifatul-Masih V. 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. ح at the beginning of a word, pronounced as a, i, u preceded by a very slight aspiration, like h in the English word honour. th-pronounced like th in the English word thing. – a guttural aspirate, stronger than h. h ċ kh - pronounced like the Scottish ch in loch. dh-pronounced like the English th in that. s-strongly articulated s.