first concerted effort to collate the entirety of Ghulam Ahmad's spoken words was made by Jalal-ud-Din Shams and several Ahmadi scholars working in his supervision and published in the form of a complete set of ten volumes between 1960 and 1967. This ten-volume set was reprinted in 1984 and compressed into five volumes in 2008. In 2016, A ten-volume computerised typset edition was published for greater clarity of script and easier handling and navigation of the text. Volumes English Translation Although selected passages of the Malfūzāt had earlier been translated into English within the volumes of The Essence of Islam by Zafarullah Khan between 1979 and 1981, as of 2021 three complete volumes have been translated by Ayyaz Mahmood Khan as the Sayings & Discourses of the Promised Messiah, together covering a period from 1891 to August 1901. See also Hadith Mirza Ghulam Ahmad bibliography Maktūbāt-i Ahmad (Collected letters of Ghulam Ahmad) Notes References External links English translations (Vols. I and II): Malfuzat: Sayings & Discourses of the Promised Messiah Volume I Malfuzat: Sayings & Discourses of the Promised Messiah Volume II Malfuzat: Sayings & Discourses of the Promised Messiah Volume III Ahmadiyya literature Islamic sermons Works by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Religious texts Islamic ethics