Life-of-Muhammad

ForewordLife of Muhammad sa is part of Introduction to thestudy of the Holy Qur’an by Hadrat Mirza BashirduddinMahmud Ahmad ra . The Introduction was translated intoEnglish by Qadi Muhammad Aslam and was firstpublished in 1949 from London. Since then it hasappeared in several editions. Life of Muhammad sa hasalso appeared in several editions and is out of stocknow. We are publishing it again with an index which theoriginal English edition did not have. We have also resetit to make it more attractive. Needless to say that it ismuch in demand and we very much hope that thepresent edition will meet this demand. Some minorcorrections have also been made.The name of Muhammad sa , the Holy Prophet of Islam,has been followed by the symbol sa , which is anabbreviation for the salutation 'may peace and blessingsof Allah be upon him.' The names of other prophets andmessengers are followed by the symbol as, anabbreviation for 'on whom be peace.' The actualsalutations have not generally been set out in full, butthey should nevertheless, be understood as beingrepeated in full in each case. The symbol ra is used withthe name of the Disciples of the Holy Prophet sa andthose of the Promised Messiah as . It stands for RadiAllahu ‘anhu/‘anha/‘anhum (May Allah be pleased withhim/with her/with them).In transliterating Arabic words we have followed thefollowing system adopted by the Royal Asiatic Society.at the beginning of a word, pronounced as a, i, u preceded bya very slight aspiration, like h in the English word 'honour'.th, pronounced like th in the English word 'thing'.حh, a guttural aspirate, stronger than h. kh, pronounced like the Scotch ch in 'loch'.dh, pronounced like the English th in 'that'.صs, strongly articulated s. اثخذix