About these manuscripts

What he left, what else was used, and why none of it was tidied

What he left

Six manuscripts, written in Urdu in the last years of his life so that they could be read after he was gone. Together they run to about 1.25 million characters across 2,047 paragraphs, and he typed every one of them himself. They are published here as he left them.

Why they appear as he wrote them

To edit them would be to decide what he meant.

Where he chose a word, the word stands. His Urdu is the record. The German and English beside it are there to open the door, never to stand in place of what is behind it. Every paragraph keeps its own number, so that anything said on this site can be traced back to the exact place he said it.

Where a passage returns, the repetition is his, and it stays where he put it, shown folded so that the thread of the reading is kept.

For the same reason, nothing here is written in his voice. Where the sources do not answer a question, this site says so rather than filling the gap.

The German and English beside his Urdu are machine made and are not part of the record. The Urdu is the document; the translation is only an aid to its meaning and may contain errors. Read the original Urdu if you can.

What else was used

His manuscripts are the spine of this archive. Five other kinds of source sit around them, and each is marked, so a reader always knows which one they are looking at.

His published writing.: He wrote for the Community's press for fifty years and on three continents: Al Fazl in Pakistan, the Review of Religions in London, the Ahmadiyya Gazette in Canada, Ansaruddin in the United Kingdom, Khadija in Germany, and the weekly Truth, which he supervised in Nigeria. In March 2015 he also sent an article to Badr in Qadian. Where a piece can be read online, it is linked.
His books.: Darweshan-e-Ahmadiyyat in eight volumes, six of them printed, and the shorter works, beginning with the first he wrote as a young missionary in Ghana.
The Community's own record.: Official histories of the Jalsa Salana in Germany, the register of central missionaries who served in Nigeria, and the service chronology published in Ansaruddin. These are used to confirm dates and postings, and are cited by name.
The words of the Khalifa.: On 17 March 2017, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V (aba) spoke of him in the Friday Sermon and led his funeral prayer in absentia. That passage is reproduced with its source and its timing.
The outside record.: Where his work appears in catalogues beyond the Community, including a German academic bibliography and the ISBN record of his German edition, that is shown too, because a reader should be able to check him without taking our word for anything.
The family's papers.: A local history of Bhera which records his father, a photograph, a poem cut from a newspaper in 1955, and the documents the family still holds.
Family memory.: A few things are remembered rather than written. Those are marked as family accounts, and are never presented as documented.

Seventy years of writing

1955A poem in Al Fazl, while he was still a student at Jamia Ahmadiyya. Poetry
1956 to 1960A Talk between a Muslim and a Christian, written during his years in Ghana and published under the auspices of Jamia Ahmadiyya, Rabwah. Publications
1967Middle East Conflict in the Light of Heavenly Prophecies, written as the Six Day War broke over the region, and translated into German the same year. Publications
1968 to 1972Space and Interplanetary Flights on Quran, written while he was Amir in Nigeria, published in three instalments in a Nigerian national newspaper and then as a book. Publications
1977He began Darweshan-e-Ahmadiyyat at Rabwah. It grew to eight volumes, six of which were printed. Publications
1990Prophecies About Middle East, The Review of Religions, October 1990. Publications
The last years of his lifeThe six Urdu manuscripts published here. The manuscripts
2010A tribute in Khadija, the magazine of Lajna Imaillah Germany. Elsewhere on the record
2011A study of the opponents of the Promised Messiah (as), across three issues of the Ahmadiyya Gazette in Canada. Elsewhere on the record
2013His memories of Al Fazl, in the newspaper's centenary souvenir. Elsewhere on the record
2016A German brochure on what the Quran said of space and interplanetary flight. Publications
4 March 2017He died at Langen, in Hesse.
17 March 2017Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V (aba) led his funeral prayer in absentia at the Baitul Futuh Mosque in London. The funeral prayer in absentia
2021His writing on the defence of Islam, across three issues of Ansaruddin in the United Kingdom, four years after his death. Elsewhere on the record
2025Al Fazl cited his 2011 study as a source, eight years after his death. Elsewhere on the record

He was published for seventy years, and he is published still.

A family archive. These are Maulana Fazal Ilahi Anweri's own manuscripts, published by his family as he intended them to be published after his death. It is not an official publication of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.