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Fazle Umar 238 In his dream it was clearly conveyed to him that he was a reflection of the Promised Messiah and his Khalifa. At the end of his exposition of the dream he stated: “I wish to mention that when I woke up after the dream I kept thinking over it and my thoughts were formulated in Arabic. The end of my thinking was that God had clearly determined that truth had arrived and falsehood had vanished, falsehood was bound to vanish (Ch. 17: V. 82). Today, when I was reading the announcement of the Promised Messiah [as] of 20 February 1886, I found the same words set out in it. Thus, God Almighty has revealed the reality to me and I can affirm without the least hesitation that the prophecy of God Almighty has been fulfilled, and that He has laid a foundation through the Tehrike Jadeed in consequence of which the prophecy of Jesus that the virgins will accompany the bridegroom into the citadel will one day be fulfilled in a grand manner. The reflection of the Messiah will lead the virgins to the presence of God Almighty and the nations who will have been blessed through him will proclaim joyously: ‘Hosanna, hosanna. ’ They will then believe in Muhammad [saw] and will have true faith in the first Messiah. At present they proclaim him the Son of God, which amounts to reviling him. But it is decreed that the seed sown by me will one day grow into such a splendid tree that the Christian peoples will gather under it in order to seek blessings from the reflection of the Messiah and will thus enter into the Kingdom of God, and the Kingdom of God will arrive on Earth as it is in Heaven. ” In the course of his opening speech in the session of the Advisory Council of 1944, he stated: “Every member of the Movement should realise that the revelation received by the Promised Messiah [as] , concerning me that I would grow up rapidly did not mean that I would stand alone before the enemy hosts, but that, having