European, and they established an Islamic magazine in London. Ghulam Ahmad died in 1908 in Lahore, and on his tomb was written, "Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised One." The meaning of "Promised One" is the Mahdi. He willed the establishment of a council to be elected freely, and its function is to elect the spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya. The British government also embraced this sect for the reasons we mentioned before. They translated the Quran into English and printed it meticulously in Arabic and English, and they added some strange commentaries to it in English, such as their claim that the "ghuraba" (strangers) are the Westerners. They interpreted the verse of Solomon, "And when We decreed death for him, nothing showed them his death except a creature of the earth that gnawed on his staff," to mean that these Westerners were gradually taking over some of the lands he owned. When Solomon died, nothing sustained his death except the opening of the door to them and Solomon's failure to take revenge on them and subjugate them. Thus, the interpretations and commentaries revolve around interpreting everything whose apparent meaning contradicts reason. And if their teachings and ambiguities are not entirely clear, and their persecution has caused much of their sect to be lost.