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follows:-" The second rendering conveys the idea that some misfortune tt'ill befall the person named and his loss will be deeply mourned (vide, the Review of Religions for February 1930, page 44 ). This statement of Maulvi Sher Ali sqows that the Ahmadiyya Community from the beginning believed that this prophecy possessed two facets and that in all probability both would be fulfilled because it is among God's ways that sometimes the revelations He sends down to His Messengers have several aspects all of which are fulfilled How long would you wait? To be brief, God revealed some secrets of the future to the Promised Messiah in two revelations on May J, 1905. One of these revelations contained a prophecy about the success of the small band of the followers of Bachcha-i-Saqqa over ex-King Amanullah Khan and the other foretold that at the time of the defeat of Amanullah Khan at the hands of Bachcha-i-Saqqa, Nadir Khan would be out of Afghanistan, that his return to his country would be instensely. desired by his people, that he would return to Afghanistan, would inflict a severe defeat on his enemy, would become king and finally change his name from Nadir Khan to Nadir Shah. It was also predicted in the second revelation that in consequence of a sudden calamity that would befall him, King Nadir Shah would lose his life suddenly in most tragic circumstances and his people would be plunged into intense and deep grief and his death would be regarded as a great national loss. This prophecy was made when Nadir Khan was only an inexperienced and immature youi. g man and there seemed to be not the remotest possiblity for him to get any high and responsible post. Now 0 ye people who profess to seek after truth and whom the love of this world has not rendered quite oblivious of the remembrance of the next, I ask you, in all humility Is it possible for a man to reveal such mighty divine secrets 25 or 30 years before their actual occurrence. If such great secrets could be revealed by man, by what touch-stone could the truth of God's Mess- engers be tested and what respect would the Word of God com- mand? God say~ in the Quran J)"\)1. :Y. . ~)l:l"' lll 1. x. 1 "-t~" ~i. ;;r~~ll i. e. 'God does not reveal His secrets to any except to Bis apostles'• Now if an impostor and a friend ofthe I?evif fan