Wikipedia's first sentence called it “a 5 volume corpus of the sayings and utterances of mirza ghulam ahmad of qadian the founder of the ahmadiyya mu”. Today it says “ten-volume collection of the discourses”.
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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 of Qadian the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam , who claimed that he had been appointed by God as the Promised Messiah and Mahdi . These sayings were taken down in writing by his disciples.1The volumes cover a period of nearly two decades of discourses, speeches, question and answer sessions, sermons and conversations of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad starting from 1891 until his death in 1908.2To date only a small portion of the volume set has been translated into the English language.3
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Malfoozat: also spelt Malfuzaat , mostly translated as the dialogues or discourse is a 5 volume corpus of the sayings and utterances of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community who claimed that he had been appointed by God as the Promised Messiah and Mahdi. These sayings were taken down in writing by his disciples. They start from 1891 until his death in 1908 and consists of his complete discourses, speeches, question and answer sessions, his sermons and often casual sayings, hence his entire oral output during this time. A little portion of the Malfoozat has yet been translated into English.
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"spoken words") is a five volume corpus comprising the discourses, speeches, question-and-answer-sessions, sermons of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam , who claimed to be the Promised Mahdi and Messiah.These discourses were written down by his companions.The volumes cover a period of nearly two decades of Ghulam Ahmad's starting from 1891 until his death in 1908.
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"spoken words") is a ten-volume collection of the discourses, question-and-answer-sessions, sermons and dialogues of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement .The volumes contain, for the most part, speech that was transcribed by several of Ghulam Ahmad's close disciples as it was being communicated and was published in Ahmadi periodicals during his lifetime, covering a period starting from 1891 until his death in 1908.This material was compiled and published as a set of volumes during the 1960s.
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Sayings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Malfūzāt ( Urdu : ملفوظات , "Discourses"; lit. "spoken words") is a ten-volume collection of the discourses, question-and-answer-sessions, sermons and dialogues of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement . The volumes contain, for the most part, speech that was transcribed by several of Ghulam Ahmad's close disciples as it was being communicated and was published in Ahmadi periodicals during his lifetime, covering a period starting from 1891 until his death in 1908. This material was compiled and published as a set of volumes during the 1960s.
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a 5 volume corpus of the sayings and utterances of mirza ghulam ahmad of qadian the founder of the ahmadiyya mu
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ten-volume collection of the discourses
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