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spent a whole life-time among you before this, will you not then understand? (10:17). The attention of the disbelievers is here drawn to the utter purity of the Holy Prophet's life even before the divine call came to him, so as to impress upon them that he who had throughout led a righteous life would not suddenly, on arriving at full maturity, start fabricating lies against God. . In the case of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad also, in the revelation vouchsafed to him, God Almighty invited attention to the purity of his life from the very beginning as proof of the truth of his claim, in the same words as had been employed in the Holy. Quran with reference to the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, namely: I have spent a whole life-time among you before this, will you not then understand? (Nazoolul Masih, p. 212). He himself invited attention to the purity of his life in the following words: 'You cannot point to any fault, imposture, falsehood or deceit in my previous life so that you could say that one who was already given to falsehood and imposture had only added to his previous falsehoods another imposture. Which of you can criticise anything in my previous life? It is the grace of God that from the very beginning He established my life along the lines of righteousness. . This is a proof for those who reflect' (Tadhkaratush Shahadatain, p. 62). . Throughout his life no one ever charged him with uttering a falsehood. It is not to be imagined, therefore, that one who was so wholly committed to the truth in all aspects of his life would be guilty of the heinous falsehood that God spoke to him, if in fact. He did not. . All Muslims believe firmly that according to the Holy Quran a person who fabricates something himself and attributes it to. God cannot flourish at all and is bound to be frustrated and ruined by God. This doctrine is based upon the following verses of the Holy Quran:. Had he (Muhammad) fabricated any saying and attributed it to Us,. We would surely have seized him by the right hand and then surely. We would have severed his large artery; and not one of you could have hindered Us (69:45-8). . This is an awesome warning to every daring impostor. A person, wholly misguided or out of his mind, might claim that he 7