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IO THE CONCLUSIVE ARGUMENT were close to them. They followed only those who had already gone ضلوا من قبل من فيج أعوَجَ ومن قوم محجوبين فما زالوا آخذين astray from among Farj Awaj and were among the deprived ones, and they continued to fol ،بآثارهم حتى حصحص الحق low their sayings until the truth became manifest so that some of فرجع بعضهم متندمين وأما them repented in remorse. But the ones upon whose hearts God had set a seal neither accepted the truth nor benefited from the admonition of the admonisher. الذين طبع الله على قلوبهم فما كانوأن يقبلوا الحق وما نفعهم وعظ الواعظين والعلماء الراسخون Those who are firmly rooted in يبكون عليهم ويجدونهم على شفا knowledge weep over their con- dition and find them sleeping on the brink of a pit. حفرة نائمين 1. Publisher's Note: Lit. 'Crooked group. In Tohfa-e-Golarhviyyah, Ruhānī Khazā'in, vol. 17, p. 226, the Promised Messiahas explains Faij Awaj as: The middle ages that came after the age of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and the blessed ages, and preceded the age of the Promised Messiah, is the age of Faij Aʻwaj, or the age of a misguided lot that had no good in it, with some exceptions. This is the age of Faij Awaj regarding which a hadith of the Holy Prophetsas states : ليسوا مني ولستُ منهم . Meaning that, they are not of me and I am not of them; i. e. I have nothing to do with them. This is the age in which thousands of false innovations and countless unholy customs were introduced, and idolatry was prac- ticed with regard to Allah, His attributes, and His actions. And multitudes of unholy sects were born that reached the number of seventy-three.