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23 in this regard. In fact, they are not even inclined to go through such an experience and have never allowed them- selves any opportunity to form an opinion based on a comprehensive analysis, nor do they wish to do so. Their suspicions are based, not on any of their own investigation, but only on the objections my prejudiced opponents have levelled against my two prophecies. 11 Consequently, they 11 These are the objections: In my announcement of 8 th April 1886, I published the prophecy that a boy would be born to me, but I also wrote in unambiguous terms that the boy may either be born from the current pregnancy or a future one. However, in order to expose the inherent evil and injustice of my opponents, God gave me a girl from the first pregnancy and a boy from the next, and the essence of my prophecy was thus fulfilled. But the opponents, in keeping with their eternal practice, adopted a mischievous attitude and argued why a boy had not been born from the first pregnancy. I told them that no such stipulation was mentioned in the prophecy, rather it had been stated that the boy may be born from the next pregnancy, and this prophecy was unequivocally fulfilled. Such criticism is, in fact, a kind of deception which no right-minded person will accept. The second objection made by my opponents was that the boy, whose birth had been prophesied in the announcement of 8 th April 1886, died in infancy. I have already answered this objection in detail, and the bottom line is that I never wrote in any of my announcement that the deceased boy would be blessed with a long life and would become the Promised Reformer. On the contrary, the announcement of 20 th February 1886 contains the prophecy that some of my boys will die in infancy. Consider, therefore, whether the demise of this child has fulfilled this prophecy or not. In fact, most of the revelations that I published pointed to his demise. The announcement of 20 th February 1886, for instance, contained the words, "A beautiful and pure boy comes as your guest," which clearly show that the boy would die Contd…