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from heaven as the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, or God would send someone of similar spirit and power as had Jesus? As I am not an Islamic scholar nor do I know even a bit of Arabic, I am not competent to enter into this controversy scholastically. But I still adhere to being an Ahmadi Muslim and will explain why in my own commonsense way. . The logic of these three books mentioned above is the same logic one finds in the books by Western Arabic scholars or the orientalists writing against the prophethood of our Holy Prophet. Muhammad, or the Jewish scholars writing against Jesus in his time and thereafter. Maulana Hasan Ali Nadwi says in his book,. Qadianism, that he is an impartial historian with no axe to grind; that may be; we know of another impartial brother historian,. Arnold Toynbee, who says in his book, Mankind and Mother. Earth, that Moses and the Israelites had never been to Egypt, nor did they ever cross the Red Sea; they came from central Arabia and settled in Palestine; we take it that Maulana Nadwi rightly would not accept that opinion because it contradicts the Quran, though it is from an impartial historian like himself. Phoenix in his book, His Holiness, scrutinises Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Qadiani through ‘modern psychology', and ascribes to him a naive lack of awareness of his own unconscious motives. Yet the father of modern psychology, Sigmund Freud, in his book, Moses and Monotheism, says that Moses was an Egyptian prince and not an Israelite, who became the leader of the Israelites and foisted on them the Akhnatonian monotheism. We take it that. Phoenix rightly would not accept Freud's assertion because it contradicts the Quran. So much for impartial history and modern psychology. . . The real concern of Maulana Abul A'la Maududi and Sir Muhammad Iqbal was that the prophethood of Mirza. Sahib, in intense opposition of the orthodox Muslims, was destroying the unity of Islam as a whole and particularly Islam in the. Indian sub-continent. This was also the argument of the polytheists of Mecca against our Holy Prophet. Sir Muhammad Iqbal (died in 1938) even wanted the British Government of India to restrain the Ahmadiyyah Movement. . . The Ahmadiyyah con8