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time when the. need of his presence would be'. k&enly · felti Circum~tane_~-~ co. rroborate this fa. ct also. On-ly a day or two befor~ th~ death pf -the late King,. Dr. . Sir Muhammad Iqbal, after his return from Kabul, in an 'interview he gave ta the; Pre~s, is stated to. . have said that Afghanistan wa~ well qn. . ttie way to progress and if ·Nadir Shah was spared for ~. nother_ ·ten, years. Afghanistan would reach the height o!, prosperity. This statement shpws that all those perso. ns who Wyre £~mi. Hai- with the. developments that were taking place in ali walks of national life under the wise and able guidance of Wp. dir. Shah ,keenly f~lt that Afghanistan badly needec}. Nadir s·h. ~h '£or so~e. ye~rs to ~ome. 1;3ut God haq fore-ordained that ~adir Shah !?houJd. die. :;i, premature death to fulfil the prophecy d th~ Found~r ~f the Ahmadiyya Movement. The ·obfection might be raised by some spiteful people that when Nadfr Shah wa:s fighting the forces of Bachcha-i-Saqqa 1n the province ·of Khost, it wa~ said by di'e Ahmadis tha,t the prophecy, Alas, where is Nadir Shah g. one'' meant that the pi-esence· ·of Nadir Shah was needed' to suppress th~ di$t'Urbance in that part of the country, whereas now it is being applied to his death. So let there temain'no misu'nderstanding about it that this prophecy has beeri fulfilled- ·twice·. ;'First when at the tim~ of Ainamillah Khan's hurd'ed flight -from Afghanistan, the heed of the able guidance of Gen~ral Nadir' Khan was greatly felt and secondly now' that in conformity with· the will and purpose of God he has been assassinated by a foolish and misguided w retc~, ·,·an~ the latter view is not of ~ecent growth,_ It originated and. has been maintained by·the Ahmadiyya Community since the · tirrie God-: gfanted victory to ·Nadir Shah in. the battle~·field of Khost. 1'. lie fat:t that in pursuance of my instructions fyfaulvi She,r Ali wrote an: article for the Review of Religions regarding ·this pi;o. phecy whith appeared. in its issu~ of February, 1930, und~r thelieading of 'Nadir Khan becomes :Nadir Shah', substantiate'S my sta:. temen:t. . In that ilrticle w bile stating that the pr<?phecy under question- had been :fulfilled by the defeat of Amanullal:i Khan, the instense--desire of the people of Afghani~tan for. the rel. urn of Nadir Khan 'to guide them_ and by N_adir Khμn assuming the title of Nadir Shah, the Maulvi Sahib wrote that _ tlJ. ~ ~aid, Eμ"Op?ecy posse5s~d two interpretations, the· one desi;<. db~a;:~6ov~·-aμd a;bqut' ~h~ otb. et he e:xpressed his upinio~ a:s