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5 hundreds of letters from far and near inquiring whether he was indeed the Promised Reformer who was to be the guide for the people. I told them that until then I had not received any clear revelation pertaining to this matter. It was, nevertheless, conjectured that he might be the Prom- ised Reformer, and for good reason, because many of his personal qualities had been mentioned in various Divine revelations, and they spoke of the purity of his soul, the excellence of his nature, the greatness of his ability, and the enlightenment and inherent goodness of his soul, and they all bespoke his perfect potential. But in view of the fact that all these were inherent qualities, which did not require that the child should attain maturity, I did not make any categorical statement on the basis of Divine revelation that this was the [promised] boy who would grow to maturity. I also delayed the publication of Sir a j-e- Mun i r in expectation of some Divine revelation that would reveal the truth about this boy, for only then could I write about it confidently and comprehensively. Since I never expressed any definite opinion about the deceased boy on the basis of revelation, and never published a single revelation in this connection, I am only left to wonder who whispered all these things into the ears of my opponents? Nonetheless, even if I had issued a clear and categorical announcement stating that this child could well be the Promised Reformer and blessed with a long life—basing this view on the fact that Divine revelation had revealed the noble qualities of the deceased child and had given him names such as Mubashar [the Promised One], Bashir