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369 these religions are false but because of the fact that after the emergence of Islam as a religion, God neglected all other religions and these religions have become like a garden which has no gardener. ” ( Lecture Sialkot , p. 1, R uha n i Khaz a’ in , vol. 20, p. 203) With this effective opening, the Promised Messiah as then marshalled his arguments in support of his claim as the Promised Messiah and for the first time in this lecture, the Promised Messiah as declared: Hence this promise has been fulfilled with my coming. Among other revelations regarding myself, I also received this revelation: “O’ Krishna, slayer of swine and protector of cows, thy praise is recorded in the Gita. ” Hence, I love Krishna because I have come in his image. Another resemblance between the two of us is that the same qualities that have been attributed to Krishna (for instance, his being the destroyer of sin, the consoler, and the nourisher of the poor) are also the qualities of the Promised Messiah. From the spiritual point of view, therefore, Krishna and Promised Messiah are one and the same; it is only the regional terminology that is different. . . . Now, in my capacity as Krishna, I warn the Aryas against some of their errors. One of them, which I have already mentioned, is that it is not right to believe that all the souls and particles of the universe, also known as Purkarti or Purmano, are uncreated and eternal. ( Lecture Sialkot , p. 34, R uha n i Khaz a’ in , vol. 20, p. 229) Ending his lecture, the Promised Messiah as said: I have the same attachment to the soil of Sialkot as I have with the soil of Qadian, for I have spent my early days in this city and I have seen much of the city. I have still a friend and sincere person in this city of that time, namely, H ak i m Hissam-ud-D i n. He had an attachment with me at a time when I was an unknown figure. He is here and you may ask him. Now I ask you who could make a prophecy that hundred of thousand of people would become my