Game Royale.

"By the way if ever you want to ride, just let Lynch know and he'll sort it out for you."

"Oh, Papa, Cousin Matthew doesn't ride."

"I ride."

"And do you hunt?"

"No I don't hunt."

"I dare say there's not much opportunity in Manchester."

"Are you a hunting family?"

"Families like ours are always hunting families."

"Not always.  Billy Skelton won't have them on his land."

"But all the Skeltons are mad."

"Do you hunt?"

"Occasionally.  I suppose you're more interested in books than country sports."

"I probably am.  You'll tell me that's rather unhealthy."

"Not unhealthy.  Just unusual.  Among our kind of people."

(Julian Fellowes.  Downton Abbey).

O for "illicit" venison, I side with Alexander Pope's verse about preferring a rogue with it 'to a saint without.' Pope liked his 'ven'son'.  His letters often mention dining on friendly venison with quite some relish (which about 70 years ago would have contravened rule 47b of the Emergency Butchery Act). Do you fancy the haunch yourself, or "half an 'aunch" (quoth Phoebe in Goodnight Sweetheart: London Pride)? Or would you prefer pheasant? In India there is a traditional succulent curry prepared from the freshly-hunted leg meat and pheasant together. Enjoy these biting lines from Pope's 'Epistle To Allen Bathurst: Of the Use of Riches':

What made Directors cheat in South-sea year?
To live on ven'son when it sold so dear.
Ask you why Phryne the whole Auction buys?
Phryne foresees a General Excise,
Why she and Sappho raise that monstrous sum?
Alas! they fear a Man will cost a plum.

Ted Hughes Commemoration in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.

Minute after minute, aeon after aeon,

Nothing lets up or develops.
And this is neither a bad variant nor a tryout.
This is where the staring angels go through.
This is where all the stars bow down.

(Ted Hughes.  'Pibroch').

I received an invitation to attend the unveiling ceremony of a memorial stone to Ted Hughes by Seamus Heaney in Westminster Abbey.  I set off at 3pm and realised half-way to the station that I had forgotten the invitation card at home so had to walk back to pick it up.  

Walking past the Houses of Parliament I saw the Home Secretary Theresa May coming out in her car.  The abbey always looks really awesome in the floodlight.  I entered through the arch and the East Cloisters which were really dark and atmospheric.  It was quite an experience walking through the dimly lit cloisters with tombstones on the floor until I reached an area that had been cordoned off where people gathered slowly.  A glance upon the floor revealed a tombstone marked Aphra Behn, the Restoration dramatist.  I spotted Simon Armitage and got up from where I was sitting upon the stone benches along the walls to talk to him about his work on 'Sir Gawain & the Green Knight' and its relation to the eighteenth chapter of The Holy Quran but then changed my mind and sat back down thinking, perhaps, that this was not the occasion for such talk.  As always everybody always knows each other or seems to, nobody ever knows me so I have a habit of taking out my book to read.  I read a bit of Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life by Adam Feinstein before we were ushered in through a door leading to Poets' Corner.  There was a lady to my right who asked how or if I had a Hughes' connection.  I was a bit nonplussed but replied that I was just an admirer of his work and that I had gotten into Plath first but then really discovered his work when I was at college after Birthday Letters came out.  She remarked that she was a librarian at Cambridge University where she had seen him read in the seventies.  A lady to my left observed that she was from Cambridge too.  I spotted Andrew Motion and Hughes' widow Carol dressed beautifully in opal, she laid flowers from the garden of Court Green (their house in Devon) at the memorial. 

Sitting in Poets' Corner among so many countless tombs and memorials to writers, poets, historians and theologians and just being present in Westminster Abbey is always a spiritually uplifting experience.  The intensity of historical presence is overpowering.  The Urdu poet Parveen Shakir wrote a poem on this sense of being overwhelmed by history in her poem 'Westminster Abbey'.  All the seats had the Order of the Service placed upon them.  Dr John Hall, the Dean said "We have come to Poets' Corner, where the word is celebrated.  Here Geoffrey Chaucer lived and died, and was buried in 1400.  Here William Caxton set up his printing press in 1476.  Here writing in English and its publication were first achieved."
        "Buried here is all that could be buried of Edmund Spenser and John Dryden, Tennyson, and Browning.  They are remembered; their words live on."  Lord Evans of Temple Guiting read from Hughes' letter to Plath of 1 and 2 October 1956 scientifically arguing in favour of reading aloud.  Hughes says that was how all reading was done until the invention of Caxton's press.  It is an incredible passage to read.  This was followed by a reading of Hughes' poems 'Full Moon and Little Frieda' 'Anniversary' and 'Where I Sit Writing My Letter' by Juliet Stevenson.  The acoustics of the abbey offering a resound.  Then Heaney who I saw for the first time delivered an address, beginning with a quotation from Beowulf and remarking upon Hughes' natural use of the alliterative Anglo-Saxon meter in, for example, the first line of 'The Thought Fox' and in 'Fern'.  But, he said, he did not intend to lecture on Hughes' uses of language and meter.  This was followed by him unveiling the memorial stone, Daniel Huws' reading of 'In Memory of Ted Hughes' by the poet R. S. Thomas and Heaney's readings of 'Some Pike for Nicholas' 'For the Duration' 'That Morning'. 

The Order of Service contained some interesting points about Poets' Corner: Chaucer was buried here not because he was a great poet but because he had served as the Clerk of Works to the palace of Westminster, Joseph Addison first referred to 'the poetical quarter' in The Spectator and the first written use of the title that is known was in a poem of 1733 'Upon the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey'.  

In all about 300 people attended.  As everyone walked past the plaque I glanced at the names on the chits upon the chairs, lots of lords and ladies and one 'Mrs T. S. Eliot' who I've never seen and didn't catch this time either.  There were refreshments afterwards for those with a blue ticket.  I did have 2, one white and one blue but I'm certain it wasn't the blue one so I made my way back.  There were carol singers at Westminster station singing 'Ding dong merrily on high':

So we found the end of our journey.

So we stood, alive in the river of light
Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.

(Ted Hughes.  'That Morning'). 

  

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Qayoom's passion for literature speaks volumes of how connected he feels with history and persons of the past. He speculates, if one consumes himself with literature from the past, is he being present for today?
 

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Christina Westover's is the author of Precipice (Black Rose Writing, 2010) and Poisoning Sylvie (World Publishing Limited, 2011).  Born and raised in California, Christina currently resides in San Francisco.

8 New Poems.

8 new poems by the Urdu poet Parveen Shakir freshly adapted into English.

Duty

‘Sweetheart!

I regret

I cannot come to you this weekend again

I’ve some important business to see to!’

Darling!

I have understood

Your business

Perhaps your Chief Director’s wife is alone again

This weekend

        11 March 2011.

 

Revelation

Narrated Aisha (Mother of the Faithful): 'The commencement of the Divine Inspiration to Allah's Apostle was in the form of good dreams which came true like bright daylight, and then the love of seclusion was bestowed upon him. He used to go in seclusion in the cave of Hira where he used to worship continuously for many days before his desire to see his family. He used to take with him the journey food for the stay and then come back to [his wife] Khadija to take his food like-wise again till suddenly the Truth descended upon him while he was in the cave of Hira. The angel came to him and asked him to read. The Prophet replied 'I do not know how to read.'

The Prophet added 'The angel caught me forcefully and pressed me so hard that I could not bear it any more. He then released me and again asked me to read and I replied 'I do not know how to read.' Thereupon he caught me again and pressed me a second time till I could not bear it any more and passed out. He then released me and again asked me to read but again I replied 'I do not know how to read (or what shall I read)?' Thereupon he caught me for the third time and pressed me, and then released me and said 'Recite -- In the name of thy Lord.  Who created everyone.  Who created Mankind of coagulated blood.  Recite (for) Thy Lord is the Noblest One.' 

(al-Bukhari, Imam abu-Abdullah Muhammad bin-Ismael.  Sahih Bukhari: Book of Revelation).

It was such a strange time

When all form of worship was bleary-eyed

And all devotions had completely lost their vision

People beseeched blessings and goodly favours

From idols their own hands had carved!

But one

Who had yet to recognise himself

Was involved in a canny problem

So he bore the cross of such insatiate griefs

He is not of them, who would he be

To taste the tormenting agonies of anonymity

Far from the city of Azar

He granted all his moments in time to the dreamy stillness of the cave of Hira

This was the meditation of thought

As well as an affirmation of an invisible spirit of Complete Being

That night was another night of secrets

The surroundings were muted

Just for the moment

And the necks of the winds were severed from their bodies

The heartbeat of the stars had momentarily paused

As if the pulse of their very existence had ceased!

And the receding moments were stilled into fright

There and then a light echoed with all the colours

Of Beauty and Majesty

'Recite!'

'I don't recite!'

'Recite!'

'I don't recite!'

'Recite!'

'(But) what shall I recite?'

Recite -- In the name of thy Lord

Who created everyone

Who created Mankind of coagulated blood

Recite (for) Thy Lord is the Noblest One

(And) Who taught by the pen

He alone taught man

What he did not know ......'

The dumb surroundings seemed to echo with chanting Recite

All those words, which had been swept away

In the flood of dark

Began journeying back

Upon waves of light

Suns of awareness were descending

Into the casement of vacuity

In that one moment

My Unlettered One

Had become a city of knowledge!

        5 March 2011.

To A Friend

Girl! These moments are clouds

You let them pass and they're gone

Soak up their moist touch

Don't waste a single drop

Drench yourself for as long as

Your inner Earth remains thirsty

Listen to me, learn from me

Downpours don't remember their way back

The summer brightness you go out to dry your hair in

Cannot read the road signs!

               23 May 2007.

 

Creator of the Universe!

Creator of the Universe!

Look me in the eye.

At the smile

Playing upon my lips

At the glint

Twinkling in my eyes

What does it remind you of?

Do you see anything reflecting

In my tears?

I bet you are feeling something familiar

At this beautiful time

Because you know

How great it is

Yes yes - you are right

Today I too –

Gave birth to life!

          June 2009.

 To a Victorian

Rather than keeping me

Tucked away

In your heart

Instead of wasting your life like this,

Trying to practice the mores of the Victorians

In the reign of Elizabeth II

Scoring world literature left right and centre

For the correct form of a one-word conversation

Rather than linger long lonesome hours

‘Neath my window each year

The first day of Spring

Just come suddenly

One day

From nowhere in particular

And taking my

In your arms

Turn a perfect circle!

          4 July 2011.

Poem for Forugh Farrokzad

This day the chief jurist has admitted

That the crop of sinners is ripe once again

Go tell the Shah’s council
All tyrants await

With baited breath

His Highness’ verdict

So they can serve in holy reverence – To carry out the command

To choose who to behead who to topple off their pedestal

Whose hands to sever, whose tongue to slice out

Whose livelihood is to be discontinued

Where to entice the hungry, with food they cannot have

Where to distribute pardons

Where to proclaim the edicts

Of death, by stoning

How many pre-pubescent girls,

Are to be gang-raped by generals (on bloodied bed sheets)

Which petty criminals are to be posted

At the Plaza Square staring at its ever flowing fountains

How many innocents to drag to the gallows and the hangman’s noose

Your Highness may command as he wills!
I beseech this much

That the Royal Statements be kept

Confined to Private Conversation

Otherwise

There’ll be legal hurdles!

             4 July 2011.

Loneliness

This scenic evening of ours

Mingled with the perfume

Of your garment

With the burgeoning of my vision

Will last some mere moments

Just now

A star will unwind itself upon the horizon

Just then

Its winking will beckon to your heart

A memory

A tale of separation

Something not done

An unfulfilled dream

Something not said

To someone!

We should have met

In an age of gracefulness

In another heaven

In a different country!

    11 March 2011.

In a way we are all Dr Faustus

In a way

We are all Dr Faustus

Some barter their souls

For pleasure’s sake

And some under blackmail of duress

Some pawn their eyes

To begin trading in dreams

Others are led to mortgage their entire mind-set

It has only to be seen

What currency is in circulation

So according to an estimate of the Wall Street of life

Among those who can afford to buy, sell or invest

Self Respect is a popular commodity!

       2011.

© Rehan Qayoom.

A Bibliography.

Revised & included in Prose 1997 - 2008.

Letter in Sunday Times.  (7 January 2001).
'Thesauruses' 'Omar Khayyam & the Rubaiyat' www.optimnem.co.uk 'The Passion of the Christ' – View from a Muslim': The Lamp & Owl.  (April/May 2004).
Tariq Monthly.  (2005 & October 2010). 
Barking & Dagenham Recorder, 22 December 2005, 1 June 2006.
'A Review of Noor by Geoffrey Armes': Imaani Magazine.  (December 2006).
'A Review of Ten Feet High by Andrea Corr'.  (26 June 2007).

‘Von herzen, möge es zu herzen gehen!’ 'Poetry' Interpoetry (July 2007).
'Poetry': Kritya (Volume 3, part 5.  November 2007). 
'Homage to Barking': Newsletter of the Barking & District Historical Society.  (2007).

'A Cockney Favourite': Community Times, Romford.  (June/July 2008). 
Message from Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad - Khalifatul Masih V.
'I am the Master of the Bezels' - Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad on ibn 'Arabi.  www.alislam.org

Revised & included in About Time: Poems & Adaptation 1993 - 2010
&
Parveen Shakir Adapted into English (forthcoming).

'Anthem' in OPS Times (November 1996). 
Atomic Petals.
Shannon’s Poetry Café.
Wandering Dog.
Poetry Circle (8 June, 20 July, 17 August 2001).
'Love Letter' 'Loving Feelings' 'Love Is Better Than Wine' 'Attention' 'Arrival' 'Stay Close' 'Sonnet' in The Lamp & Owl.  (November 2001, January 2002, May 2005).
'Pygmalion' in Sentinel Poetry (Third Anniversary Issue, December 2005).
Poet's Letter (2006).
'Under the Duvet' 'The Path of Memory's not for Single Men' 'Poem' Like a Lie' 'So Many Obstacles to Overcome' in Poetry Cemetery.

Kritya (Volume 1, part 9.  February 2006 / Volume 2, part 11.  April 2007):   

'Stay Close' 'Modern Snow' 'AFRICA COME BACK' 'FRAGMENTS, not a Meal' 'Like a Lie' 'Crusade' 'Love Letter' 'Sonnet' 'Poem' 'No it is not that the allure of the sun’s stilettos' 'Under the Duvet' 'Truth' 'A Wish' 'Love': (1, 2, 3, 4).

'So Many Obstacles to Overcome' in Autumn Leaves (vol 11, July 2007
'Words' in The Beat (August 2007).
'Poem' 'Ub mujhey hijr sei riha karna' 'Words' 'Ophiuchos' www.poetcasting.co.uk (2007).
'Post-dinner Item' 'Soliloquy' 'Tomato Ketchup' in Ygdrasil.  (October 2007).
'A Wish' 'A difficult question' 'Advice from a senior executive' Upon Clifton Bridge' 'Advice' 'I Should Have Known' www.razarumi.com (Link 1 & 2).  
'Bad Language & Religious Slogans'.  (5 March 2008).
'Under the Duvet' & 'Ophiuchos'.  www.blogtalkradio.com
'A Difficult Question'.  Awen 58 (June 2009).  

'So Many Obstacles to Overcome' 'Prism' 'Moon' 'Upon Clifton Bridge' 'To H' The Delinquent.  (Issues 3, 9, 13 & 14).
'Post-dinner Item' & 'Soliloquy' in Poetry Combination Module 30.
'So Many Obstacles to Overcome' and 'Prism' in Ancient Heart (vol 5, number 3, July 2007 & 21 December 2010).

'Modern Snow' & 'Soliloquy' in Living Poets.  (Winter Edition, February 2011).
'I Should Have Known' 'Prism' 'Moon' 'Anthem' 'My Candle Is Lit On My Table' in Pens on Fire.  (July 2011).
www.xstreameast.co.uk
'Found Inscribed' & 'I Know You Won't Reply To Me' in Essence.  (Forthcoming 2012).

Anthologies:

'Loving Feelings' in Loving Feelings (Robooth, 2000).
'Burlesque on a Poem by Dylan Thomas' in Twilight Road.  (Dogma Publications, 2004).

Urdu Poetry.

'Ub mujhey hijr sei riha karna' 'Sarapa dua ho geya hun khudaya' Sada Urdu Monthly (vol 4/14, 5/5).

'Tevar bhi badal jaen manzir bhi badal jaey' 'Men hoon too ho sharab ho saqi' (Nawa e Waqt, 30 June - 6 July 2006).

'Miltey jultey hayat kei saey' Ahmadiyya Bulletin.  (January 2004).
'Teri majlis sei teri sahr bayani sei uttha' (The Awam News, 25 April - 9 May 2001).

'I Am the Master of the Bezels' - Ahmadiyya on ibn 'Arabi.

'I am the Master of the Bezels' is my compilation of the writings of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, (1835 - 1908), the holy founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the Caliphs on the Sufi saint Muhiyudeen ibn al-'Arabi.  The 3 chapters thus far complete are produced below -

         1.  'I am the Master of the Bezels' - Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad on ibn 'Arabi.

         2.  Hadhrat al-Hajj Hafiz Hakim Maulana Nooruddin - Khalifatul Masih I on ibn 'Arabi.

         3.  Hadhrat Hafiz Mirza Nasir Ahmad - Khalifatul Masih III on ibn 'Arabi.  (Under Revision).

Rabia Basri may Allah be pleased with her said that I have considered it a law to myself that my real share in this world is that of anguish and suffering and if any joy reaches me then I consider that an extra bonus which I do not deserve.  So a believer ought to bear all the discomforts and bitterness from this mortal world and be in the midst of its battleground.  We are no more unique than the prophets and the Imams, in fact the truth is that pleasures and friendships and aspirations in seeking the Divine can only really be sensed when one bears all hardships with patience and says like Prophet Job 'Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither.' [1]

(Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.  Letter to Hadhrat al-Hajj Hafiz Hakim Molana Noorudin.  March 1887.  Maktubat e Ahmad ii [Correspondence of Ahmad].  3 vols, Nazarat Isha'at, 2008.  29).

[1] The Holy Bible.  Job 1: 21.  (King James Authorised Version).

The Golden Age of Islam.

A documentary about the role of Islam in the fields of science and medicine. 

In Memoriam: Morney Wilson.

Morney Shayne Wilson was born on April 3, 1969 in Scotland. She studied at Fortismere School and graduated in English Literature from the University of Sussex. She worked as an administration officer at Middlesex University.  Morney was a regular contributor to the online Sylvia Plath Forum moderated by Elaine Connell and her poems were published on several websites. Her collection of poems was published as I Am The Blast From Your Past. The singer/songwriter Barry Crawford has set several of her poems to music in albums produced as The Morney Set (2008) and Morn (2011). Some first included in her posthumous poetry collection Martyr Doll.  Her prose has been collected in the volume Remains, both of these have been edited by myself together with a compilation of The Recordings, all  of which are being published here for the first time.  Morney Wilson passed away in London in November 2010.  4 poems by Morney have been published in Plath Profiles 4, the interdisciplinary journal for Sylvia Plath studies.  She was very excited about their being accepted just before she passed away:

The window is starless still; the clock ticks,

The page is printed.

       (Ted Hughes.  'The Thought-Fox').

The Pink Room

Where I am safe.

When you get to the pink room

do not forget to leave her

a rose.

I want her to know

we have remembered the pink room,

I want her to remember me.

I dreamt of the pink room last

night, of a time when it kept me safe,

a time when it kept her safe.

The pink room is hidden from view

now, has been stripped bare of the

lilac, the silver – someone

I will never know has carelessly

splashed blue paint over my memories.

If you should go to the pink room,

you know you will see me there.

I never could leave the pink room –

remember to leave me a rose.

From Martyr Doll.  Edited by Rehan Qayoom, (2011).

Complete List of the Works of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835 - 1908).

I now distribute those treasures which were buried

For thousands of years if someone is desirous

This is a complete list of all the books authored by Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad عليه السلام the holy founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community whose service in the field of literature earned him the Divine title 'Sultan of the Pen.'  The purpose of this list is to offer a chronological list of all his books in the original language alongside the available translations of the full book in English published by Islam International Publications Ltd (unless stated otherwise).

The Ruhani Khazain is a 23-volume set of the original books.  An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam is a book comprising of introductions to each of the works.  Select translations have appeared as a 5-volume set titled The Essence of Islam.

1.  Purani Tahrirein [Early Writings].  (1878, 1879, Anwar Ahmadiyya Press, 1899).

2.  Barahin e Ahmadiyya [Arguments in Support of 'The Holy Quran' & the Prophethood of the 

     Holy Prophet].  5 Vols.  (Safir e Hind Press 1880, 1882, Riyadh e Hind 1884, Anwar Ahmadiyya 

     Machine Press, 1905).  

3.  Surma Chashm Arya [Guidance for the Aryas].  (Riyadh e Hind, 1886).

4.  Shahna e Haq [Bugle of Truth].  (Riyadh e Hind, 1887).

5.  Sabz Ishtihar [The Green Announcement].  (Riyadh e Hind, 1888.  English: 2008).

6.  Fat'h e Islam [Victory of Islam].  (Riyadh e Hind, 1891.  English: 1973, 1996).

7.  Tadhih e Maram [Elucidation of Objectives].  (Riyadh e Hind, 1891.  English: 1971, 2004).

8.  Izala e Auham [The Removal of Misconceptions].  (Riyadh e Hind, 1891).

9.  al-Haq Mubahisa Ludhiana [The Ludhiana Debate].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1891).

10.  al-Haq Mubahisa Delhi [The Delhi Debate].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1891).

11.  Asmani Faisala [The Heavenly Decree].  (Riyadh e Hind, 1891.  English: 2006).

12.  Nishan e Asmani [The Heavenly Sign].  (Riyadh e Hind, 1892.  English: 2005).

13.  Ek Isai kei Tin Sawal or un kei Jawabat [Three Questions by a Christian & their Answers].  

     (Anjuman Himayat e Islam, 1892.  English: 1972, 2008).

14.  Aina e kamalt e Islam [The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam].  (Riyadh e Hind, 1893).

15.  Barakatud Dua [Blessings of Prayer].  (Riyadh e Hind, 1893.  English: 1973, 2007).

16.  Hujjatul Islam [The Proof of Islam].  (Riyadh e Hind, 1893).

17.  Sachai ka Izhar [The Truth Revealed].  (Riyadh e Hind, 1893.  English: 2010).

18.  Jang e Muqaddas [A Holy War].  (Riyadh e Hind, 1893).

19.  Shahadatul Quran [Testimony of Quran].  (Punjab Press, 1893).

20.  Tohfa e Baghdad [A Gift for Baghdad].  (Punjab Press, 1893).

21.  Karamatus Sadiqin [The Miracles of the Truthful].  (Punjab Press, 1893).

22.  Hamamatul Bushra [The Harbinger of Good News].  (Punjab Press, 1894).

23.  Noorul Haq [The Light of Truth].  (Mustafai Press & Mufid e Am Press, 1894).

24.  Itmamul Hujjah [The Final Argument].  (Gulzar Muhammadi Press, 1894).

25.  Sirrul Khilafah [Secret of Caliphate].  (Riyadh e Hind, 1894).

26.  Awarul Islam [The Light of Islam].  (Punjab Press, 1894).

27.  Minanur Rahman [The Blessings of the Gracious God].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1895.  English: Ahmadiyya 

       Muslim Mission Nigeria, 1979).

28.  Ziaul Haq [The Torch of Truth].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1895).

29.  Noorul Quran [The Light of Quran].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1895).

30.  Miyarul Mazahib [The Criterion for Religions].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1895.  English: 2007).

31.  Arya Dharam [The Aryah Faith].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1895).

32.  Satt Bachan [The True Word].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1895).

33.  Islami Usul ki Philosophy [The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam].  (Matba Siddiqi, 1896.  

       English: 1979, 2010).

34.  Anjam e Atham [The Death of Atham].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1897).

35.  Siraj e Munir [The Shining Lamp].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1897).

36.  Istifta' [An Enquiry].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1897).

37.  Hujjatullah [God's Final Argument].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1897).

38.  Tohfa e Qeysariyya [A Gift for the Queen].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1897).

39.  Mahmood ki Amin [Mahmood's Amin].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1897).

40.  Sirajuddin Isai kei Char Sawalon kei Jawab [Four Questions by Mr. Sirajuddin, a Christian, 

       Answered].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1897.  English: 1968, 2009).

41.  Kitabul Bariyyah [The Acquittal].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1898.  English Translation as An Account of the Exoneration & A Brief Sketch of my Life). 

42.  Al Balagh [The Message or a Cry of Pain].  (Book Depot Qadian, 1898).

43.  Zurooratul Imam [The Need for the Imam].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1898.  English: 2007).

44.  Najmul Huda [The Star the Guides].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1898.  English: Ahmadiyyah Anjuman Isha'at

       Islam 1933, 1960).

45.  Raz e Haqiqat [The Secret of Truth].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1898).

46.  Kashful Ghita' [The Truth Unveiled].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1898.  Partially Translated: 1898).

47.  Ayyamus Sulha [The Age of Peace].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1899).

48.  Haqiqatul Mahdi [The Truth About the Mahdi].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1899).

49.  Masih Hindustan Mein [Jesus in India].  (Anwar e Ahmadiyya, 1899.  English: 1944, 2003). 

50.  Sitara e Qeysariyya [The Star of the Empress].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1899).

50.  Roidad e Jalsa e Dua [The Proceedings of a Prayer Meeting].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1900).

52.  Tiryaqul Quloob [Panacea of the Souls] (Ziyaul Islam, 1899, 1902).

53.  Tohfa e Ghaznaviyya [A Gift for Ghaznavi].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1902).

54.  Khutba Ilhamiyya [The Revealed Sermon].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1902).

55.  Lujjatun Noor [An Ocean of Light].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1910).

56.  Government Angrezi or Jihad [The British Government & Jihad].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1900. 

       English: 2006).

57.  Ijazul Masih [Miracles of the Messiah].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1901).

58.  Eik Ghalati ka Izala [A Misconception Removed].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1901.  English: 1978, 2007).

59.  Tohfa Golarrviyya [A Gift for Golarrvi].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1902).

60.  Araba'in [The Forty].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1902).

61.  Dafiul Bala [Defense Against the Plague].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1902).

62.  al-Huda [Guidance for Perceiving Minds].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1902).

63.  Nuzoolul Masih [The Second Coming of the Messiah].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1902).

64.  Gunah sei Nijat Kyoonkar Mil Sakti Hei [How to be Free from Sin].  (Review of Religions, 1902.  
       English: 1902, 2008).

65.  Ismat e Anbiya [The Sinlessness of Prophets].  (Review of Religions, 1902).

66.  Kashti e Nooh [Noah's Ark].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1902).

67.  Tohfatul Nadwah [A Gift for an-Nadwah].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1902.  English: 2010).

68.  Ijaz e Ahmadi [The Miracle of Ahmad].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1902).

69.  Review bur Mubahisa Battalvi o Chakrralivi [The Review of the Debate with Battalvi & 

       Chakrralvi].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1902).

70.  Mawahibur Rahman [Bounty of God].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1903).

71.  Nasim e Dawut [An Invitation].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1903).

72.  Sanatan Dharam [The Sanatan Faith].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1903).

73.  Tadhkiratush Shahadatayn [The Two Martyrs].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1903).

74.  Seeratul Abdal [Qualities of the Saints].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1903).

75.  Lecture Lahore.  (Rifah e Am Steam Press, 1904.  English: Review of Religions

       1904, 2008).

76.  Lecture Sialkot.  (Mufid e Am Press, 1904.  English: 2007).

77.  Islam ki Haqiqat [The Truth about Islam].  (Review of Religions Urdu, March 1904).

78.  Lecture Ludhiana.  (Magazine Press, 1906.  English: 2003).

79.  Risala al-Waiyyat [The Will].  (Magazine Press, 1905.  English: 1997, 2004).

80.  Chashma e Masihi [Fountain of Christianity].  (Magazine Press, 1906.  English: 1970, 2008).

81.  Tajalliyyat e Ilahiyya [Divine Manifestations].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1906.  English: 2006).

82.  Qadian kei Aryah or Ham [The Aryas of Qadian].  (Magazine Press, 1907).

83.  Haqiqatul Wahi [The Philosophy of Revelation].  (Magazine Press, 1907).

84.  Chashma e Ma'rifat [The Fountain of Gnosis].  (Anwar e Ahmadiyya Press, 1908).

85.  Islam kei Samarat [The Fruits of Islam].  (al-Hakm, 18 February 1908),

86.  Paigham e Sulh' [A Message of Peace].  (Ziyaul Islam, 1908.  English: 1968, 1996, 2007).

87.  Majmuah Ishtiharat [Announcements].  3 Vols.

88.  Malfoozat [Discources].  5 Vols.

89.  Maktubat e Ahmad [Letters of Ahmad].  (3 Vols, 2009).

90.  Tadhkirah [Tadhkirah: Dreams, Visions & Revelations].  (English: 1976, 2009).
91.  Durr e Samin [Poems].  (Separate Editions of Urdu and Persian poetry).