"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.

[2] Each volume is chronologically arranged with each section dated and sourced, but thematically structured under subheadings related to various religious, theological and moral themes.

In view of the nascent movement's need to have its own periodical that could deal regularly with crucial issues connected to it, two Ahmadi newspapers were established within Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's lifetime, the first of these was the Urdu weekly al-Hakam, established in October 1897 and edited by his disciple Shaykh Yaqub Ali; the second was the Urdu weekly al-Badr which began publishing in 1902 and was edited by Mufti Muhammad Sadiq, also a disciple of Ghulam Ahmad.

[4] Though earlier efforts were made to collect this material—a seven volume compilation by Muhammad Manzur Ilahi was published under the name of Malfūzāt-i Ahmadiyya by the Anjuman-i Isha'at-i Islam, Lahore in the early 1930s, relying exclusively on the material in al-Hakam and al-Badr;[5] and a single volume, published by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, appeared in 1936[6]—the 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.

In 2016, A ten-volume computerised typset edition was published for greater clarity of script and easier handling and navigation of the text.