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the Promised Messiah reached the age of ten years, another. Maulvi of the Ahl-i-Hadith sect whose name also was Fazl-iIlahi, was engaged to coach him in elementary grammar and other current literature. Maulvi Gul Ali Shah, a scholar of the. Shia sect began to coach the Hazrat when he had reached the age of seventeen. He taught him some books on grammar, logic and philosophy according to the custom of that time. His father also taught him some books on medicine and the art of healing. . It was at this time that the Promised Messiah had the honour of first seeing the Holy Prophet (s. a. w. s. ) in a vision clear as crystal. He saw him sitting in a high chair which began to rise higher and higher until it reached the ceiling and became quite large in size. His face also began to shine much brighter than before. It looked as if the sun and the moon were throwing light on his bright radiant face. . Preparing himself to serve the Faith. Even from his very early age he showed signs of attachment to his Creator, for which reason, the Promised Messiah always sought seclusion. In this way his link and love with the Lord. God and his master, the Holy Prophet, grew stronger and stronger every day. He used to spend practically all his time in the mosque studying the Holy Quran and writing notes on its margin. Whenever he thought about the despicable state of Islam, shorn of its past glory, and the present miserable, down-trodden. Muslims, he felt an insufferable burning in his heart. He felt grievously hurt at the baseless attacks of the Christians on the life of the Holy Prophet and from the age of seventeen years he started noting down these unfair attacks on his beloved master. . Impartiality, Candour and Truth in Judicial cases. The Promised Messiah, obeying the command of his father, had to attend to the cases filed in connection with the family's ancestral property. This was the task which he very much hated but to continue the course of litigation for more or less seventeen years was an ordeal for the Hazrat. Miscontruing and distorting. JULY/AUGUST 1989 13