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82 wakefulness. What I understood from this was that Allah would establish and reinvigorate the faith of Islam by the programme I am going to put before the Jam a ’at in the present series of sermons. Inshallah. Thus, the series of thousands of signs has been initiated by the Khilafat of Masih-e-Muhammadi. But this ought to be borne in mind that a rightly guided Khalifa who has completely lost himself to God and is in full union with Him does not normally give expression to the love of God he receives from Him, except in matters that are related to the Jam a ‘at and are essential to be discussed. I can say from my personal experience that God has always been forbidding the rightly guided Khulaf a ’ to express openly their intimate relationship with Him. I have reached this conclusion in view of my personal experience, a saying of the Promised Messiah as and in the light of historical evidence. History records only a few incidents of manifest signs of the former rightly guided Khulaf a ’. For example, I suppose, only five or ten signs of Hadrat Umar ra are recorded. That is, only a few of the prophecies or glad tidings given to Hadrat Umar ra are recorded in the History. Whereas the Promised Messiah as says that thousands of prophecies had been fulfilled by those noble Khulaf a ’ of old and that they held lengthy discourses with God Almighty. There is no denying the fact that this statement of the Promised Messiah as is true, but history is silent. The conclusion thus is that these people would not disclose such matters in public except when they felt there was