The text of this volume has been reproduced from Malfuzat, Volume 1, published in December of 1936, by the community’s central directorate of publications in Qadian. This first edition was arranged and compiled primarily by the efforts of Chaudhary Ahmad Jaan Sahib (Director Finances of Tahrik Jadid), Sheikh Abdul-Qadir Sahib (Maulvi Fazil and currently serving as missionary in Lahore) and Maulvi Abdur-Rashid Sahib (Maulvi Fazil). May Allah grant them the best of rewards. This edition of Malfuzat comprises a collection collated from various newspapers and periodicals that spans from 1891 to 1899.
Malfuzat-e-Ahmadiyyah, Part 2, which was compiled by the late Raja Manzur Ilahi (from the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement) contained extracts from the following sources: Al-Hakam, vol. 13, no. 19, pp. 3-4 (under the title ‘Before 1873’); Al-Hakam, vol. 7, no. 36, pp. 10-11 (under the title ‘Near 1879’); Al-Hakam, vol. 6, no. 23 (under the title, ‘Near the Time of 1879’); Al-Hakam, vol. 6, no. 44-45 (under the title ‘Before 1879’); Al-Hakam, vol. 6, no. 46 and Al-Hakam, vol. 7, no. 3 (under the title ‘Prior to 1879’); Akhbar-e-Aam Lahore, printed on 10 May 1885 (under the title ‘8 May 1885’); a treatise entitled, ‘The Responses to Three Questions by Abdullah James, the Christian’. Since all of these writings were treatises penned by the Promised Messiah (as) himself, they have not been included in Malfuzat. We shall include these sources when the announcements of the Promised Messiah (as) are compiled. As mentioned, Malfuzat refers to those words of his Holiness which he expressed verbally and which were then recorded by writers who kept a diary of his words.
May Allah the Exalted make these blessed Malfuzat a source of benefit for not only members of the community, but for others as well.
Humbly,
Jalal-ud-Din Shams
Currently in Quetta
20 August 1960