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32 latter-day Ulema of this Ummah to the Pharisees of the Jewish nation. ³. This prophetic vision of our beloved master, upon whom be peace, appears to have been fulfilled repeatedly. This Ummah's pseudo Ulema's insistence that the appearance of a huge monster with all its physical pecularities must precede the advent of the Promised Messiah fulfills our beloved master's prediction yet once again since a parallel to this may also be found in the conduct of the Jewish scholars. . The Hebrew people denied the Messiah of the Mosaic dispensation on account of what an adversary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community terms as: 'their literature being full of wishful dreams. '³³. Wishful dreams no doubt these were since the Hebrew nation believed that the Messiah, who was to physically descend from the sky with clouds of heaven³4 was to be preceded by: 'four great beasts from the sea, the first of which would be like a lion with eagle's wings and the second like a bear with three huge ribs being held between its teeth. The third of these monsters from the sea would look like a leopard with four wings and the four heads and the fourth beast would be a dreadful and terrible looking beast, exceedingly strong with great iron teeth and ten horns. " '35. These contentious scholars of the Hebrew nation who based their expectations on the vision of Daniel also believed that: 'One of these four grotesque looking beasts would be destroyed and the others defeated and subjected. '³6. Since these beasts did not appear before the advent of the Mosaic. Messiah nor were they either defeated or annihilated, the wicked. Pharisees found themselves in good stead to argue against the claim of. Hazrat Isa ibne Mariam and their active resistance found popular support among the masses since they too believed that the alleged signs were to be witnessed literally. 32. Shah, Hazrat Wali Ullah: Al Fauzal Kabir: Ch 1 pg 9 33. Maududi, A. A: Finality of Prophethood: pp 6667 34. Daniel 7. 13 35. Daniel 7. 37 250 36. Daniel 7. 11/12