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18 0 ye seekers after truth, ·do ye think tha:t this' change of the name of Nadir Khan into Nadir Shah was an ordinary thing ? No, by God, no ! This change was generally believed quite impossible even after Nadir Khan had been crowned King of Afghanistan. The most implacable and inveterate enemy of the Ahmadiyya Movement, Maulvi Sanaullah, in his paper, the Ahl-hadith wrote in those days on this subject as follows: " Is he (Nadir Khan) called in Afghanistan Nadir Shah ? Were the __ Rulers of Afghanistan ever known bY the title of Shah in official or national usage ? !)id anybody ever hear Amirs Abdur Rahman and Habib Ullah or even King Amanullah known as Abdur Rahman Shah, Habib Ullah Shah or Amanullah Shah. ? In Afghanistan the Ruler is not known or designated by the title of Shah. We proceed further and declare that in_ no reliable Indian writing would you find the Rulers of Afghanistan called or described as Abdur Rahman Shah or Habib Ullah Shah. So if this revela- tion (meaning the Promised Messiah's revelation wl. :. ;c)U •r ti 1:. 11. / i. e. Alas! where is Nadir Shah gone!) had correctly h1terpreted the mind of Afghanistan the title of Nadir Khan and not Nadir Shah would have been used in it. It shows that this revelation relates to a person other 'than Amir Nadir Khan. " I: am convinced that Maulvi Sanaullah became the uncon- scious instrument of the heavenly powers in making this state- ment in his paper. Such an inveterate and pronounced enemy of th'C:; Alimadiyya Movement as Sanaullah evidently. is, unequi. vocally confesses the fact that for Nadir Khan to be known as Nadir Shab is quite against the history, traditions and the acc. epted usages of the Afghan people. For once_ at least, we agree with this statement of the Maulvi. There is no doubt in the fact that the former rulers of Afghanistan were not called by the title of Shah. This is also true that after the assumption of the title of King by Amanullah Khan, he was known. not as Amanullah Shah but as Shah Ama,nuUah Khan and this is ~quaHy correct that in view of their traditions the Afgh~ns could not conceive that they would ever begin to call Nadir Khan Nadir Shah. But it is also an undoubted and proved fact that on ascending the throne of Afghanistan Nadir Khan did become Nadir Shah and came to be universally known and cailed. as such~ The papers and journals of Afghan- istan and Indi~ have been and are still ~ddressing, c~lling and