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25 Messiah that they number into thousands. I have also related that the signs have been foretold about the Messiah and Mahdi (peace be upon him). For instance, it is in the Holy Quran that in the age of the Messiah, printing press would be established to publish the books and there would be means of carrying books from one place to another. It would not be impossible for a Missionary of Jama’at Ahmadiyya to be sent to Africa. The means of communication would be so highly developed that a place where man could not, in the past, have reached in years, he would be there in a matter of hours. It takes only nine to ten hours for a flight to arrive in England. Likewise, those of our Missionaries who go to Africa, their flight time is ten to eleven hours. Of course, during the flight the aeroplane stops and thus takes little more time. Now within a week people make three trips of the entire world. Our Muslim traveller (of the past) had to go up to a distance of half of the world in search of education, with practically no hopes of returning for the rest of his life to the members of his family. But now there are facilities of aeroplane for going quickly from one place to another and from one country to another. A Basic Principle The Promised Messiah (peace be upon him) has informed us of a basic principle, that a Hadith — an instruction spoken by the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of God be upon him) which has been preserved in accordance with the rules of Rivayat (narration), does not add an iota to the Holy Quran nor subtract anything from it. Try to understand this principle fully and keep it in mind.