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to make it lawful. Hence when Hazrat Isa, peace be upon him, will proclaim on his appearance, 'I am not the son of God. I did not die on the cross nor did 1 expiate the sins of anyone,' the whole basis of. Christian belief will be demolished. Similarly the second distinctive characteristic of Christianity will vanish when Hazrat Isa, peace be upon him, will say: ' I never declared the swine lawful for my followers nor did I proclaim them free from the restraints of the divine law. '38. This inference of the Holy Prophet's Traditon in relation to the breaking of the cross and killing of the swine by a critic of Hazrat Mirza. Ghulam Ahmad admits the fact that the Traditions of our beloved master are subject to interpretation. Had that not been the case, then the whole exercise of explaining the implications of these particular signs would have been superfluous. . The question that arises now is that if some segments of the Holy. Prophet's Traditions in relation to the advent of the Promised Messiah can be considered to be subject to interpretation, as the segments in relation to the breaking of the cross and the killing of the swine have been considered subject to interpretion by anti Ahmadiyya author, then why should the same not be true for other signs narrated in the same. Traditions? If however, the critics of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad persist in their insistence that his explanation of the Holy Prophet's. Traditions is an 'indulgence in great orgies of imagination' 39 then why are their own explanations not considered to be a similar kind of 'indulgence in great orgies of imagination?'. ADVENT OF THE MESSIAH SON OF MARY. The identity of the Messiah recorded by Traditions as the son of Mary is an essential premise of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's rejection as the. Promised Messiah by his opponents. The crux of their objection appears to be that he is not the same Messiah who appeared some 2000 years ago and who, after being delivered from the cross, bodily ascended to heaven to appear unto this world once again at some future point in time. ' 38. Maududi, A. A: Finality of Prophethood: pp 49/50 39. Nadwi, A. A: Qadianism. A Critical Study: pg 44 143