Our major publications on CD-ROM

April 24, 2000

Dear brothers and sisters

You will be happy to know that we have started the work of putting our literature on CDROM. All the CDs will have full search capabilities with linking of table of contents and index with the book pages, Note pad (for making your own notes), placing your own Book marks etc. There will be print facilities but with a backround water mark.

At appropriate places graphics and multimedia clips will be used. The following projects are underway:

1) We are putting 12 major books of Maulana Muhammad Ali on general Islam on CDROM.

These are:

The Religion of Islam
A Manual of Hadith
Muhammad the Prophet
Living Thoughts of the Prophet Muhammad
Introduction to the Study of the Holy Quran
Muhammad and Christ
The Antichrist Gog and Magog
The New World Order
The Muslim Prayer Book
History of the Prophets
Islam the Religion of Humanity
The Early Caliphate

and also

"The Teachings of Islam" by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib.

Hopefully Inshallah this CDROM will be completed by our Convention in Columbus, Ohio in August.

2) The entire Urdu writings of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib and those of his books which have been translated into English. This CD Inshallah will be completed in eight months.

3) All the writings of Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din.

4) The rest of the English and Urdu literature of our Jamaat including the works of Maulana Muhammad Ali and our other scholars.

Several separate companies are working on these projects. We have most of Maulana Muhammad Ali's books on computer disk already, and no keying-in will be necessary.

Alhamdolillah, the demonstration CD disk of the English Translation of the Holy Quran by Maulana Muhammad Ali (with the footnotes, introduction and Arabic text) has been delivered to us and we are adding additional features to it which will take a couple of more months to complete. The delay in the production of the Holy Quran CDROM has been due mainly to the scanning and proofreading of the Arabic verses.