Malfoozat
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Malfoozat or Malfuzat translated as the dialogues, discourses or spoken words is a 5 volume corpus of the sayings and utterances of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Mīrzā Ghulām Aḥmad was a religious figure from India and the founder of the Ahmadiyya Community. He claimed to be the Mujaddid of the 14th Islamic century, the promised Messiah , and the Mahdi awaited by the Muslims in the end days...

 of Qadian the founder of the Ahmadiyya
Ahmadiyya
Ahmadiyya is an Islamic religious revivalist movement founded in India near the end of the 19th century, originating with the life and teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , who claimed to have fulfilled the prophecies about the world reformer of the end times, who was to herald the Eschaton as...

 movement in Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...

, who claimed that he had been appointed by God as the Promised Messiah and Mahdi
Mahdi
In Islamic eschatology, the Mahdi is the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will stay on Earth for seven, nine or nineteen years- before the Day of Judgment and, alongside Jesus, will rid the world of wrongdoing, injustice and tyranny.In Shia Islam, the belief in the Mahdi is a "central religious...

. These sayings were taken down in writing by his disciples. The volumes cover a period of nearly two decades of discourses, speeches, question and answer sessions, sermons and casual sayings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad starting from 1891 until his death in 1908. To date only a small portion of the volume set has been translated into the English language.

Volumes

When Malfoozat was first published in Rabwah
Rabwah
Rabwah is a private city in the Chiniot District of Punjab Province, Pakistan located on the Chenab River near the historic city of Chiniot...

, a 10 volume set was produced. However newer editions have been compressed into 5 volume sets. The table below shows the time period of the sayings and discourses of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and when they were first published:
Volume First published Period
I August 1960 1891 to 1899
II 1960 1900 to 1901
III 1961 November 1901 to October 14 1902
IV July 1962 October 1902 to January 16 1903
V October 1963 January 17 to May 30 1903
VI 1963 June 1 1903 to April 1904
VII November 1964 May 2 1904 to August 1905
VIII June 1969 September 1 1905 to May 30 1906
IX June 1906 to October 1907
X October 1907 to May 1908

External links

Malfoozat examples can be found on the Ahmadiyya's Community Official website:
  • http://www.alislam.org/library/malfooz.html
  • http://www.alislam.org/library
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