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26 Mahzarnama those sects which themselves believe that from five to five- hundred verses of the Holy Quran have been abrogated, are imputing disbelief in regard to one particular verse of the Holy Quran to the sect which believes that, not to speak of any verse, nor even a single dot of the Holy Quran has been abrogated? One really wonders how to rationalise this. What else can it be called except compulsion and high-handedness! When the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at insists that this indeed is our belief and that we have repeatedly been exhorted by the Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at that the Holy Quran is God's last and complete Book, and the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa is His last and perfect Messenger and Seal of the Prophets ( Khaatamun Nabiyyeen ), the religious scholars opposed to us allege in turn thus: Despite this statement on your part, you still entertain the possibility of the advent of a prophet in one sense or another and, therefore, disbelieve the meaning of this particular verse. So, in practice, you will be counted as disbelievers of this verse. ” This is in fact the biggest putsch of the adversaries of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at, on the strength of which they have got up with the resolve to expel the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at from within the ambit of Islam. Let us analyse the truth, or otherwise, of this allegation with a dispassionate mind, and see to what extent are those justified who level this allegation. Could it be that they themselves might become a target of their own allegation and might be adjudged to be the real disbelievers of this verse ? The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at's viewpoint is that we believe in all those meanings of the "Verse of Khaatamun Nabiyyeen " which are in accord with the Holy Quran and Hadith , the consensus of the early revered saints and scholars, the Arabic idiom, and the Arabic lexicon. We do believe in the literal meaning of this verse and we also believe in its real (exegetical)