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36 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 1 ْ ِت َ ْب َ ْس َ ُك ََھَا َمَا ْل ْ ِت َ ُل ََْدْ َخ ُق ٌ ِة َ َم ُ ا ََْك ُل ِ َّت Those are a people that have passed away; for them is what they earned. Sometimes people are deceived and they believe that the initial stage is the ultimate objective they sought. Who knows, perhaps the Sufis ascribed to such beliefs but in the end they abandoned these ideas. It is also possible that others may have attributed these statements to them and mixed their own concepts with theirs. This is how the Torah and Gospel were altered as well. The Sufi saints and leaders of the past should be excluded in this context and should only be remembered with good words. What is necessary for an individual personally is that when God enables them to realise a mistake, they themselves abstain from it. God has stated that one should not associ - ate partners with Him, and become wholly devoted to Him with all of one’s understanding and ability. What could be greater than the fact that: ُہللُ َلَٗہٗ َا َ ْاْن ََک ِ ُہللِ َ ْاْن ََْنْ َک ِم He who belongs to Allah, Allah becomes his. Holding the Breath Question: What is this practice of holding the breath (habs-e-damm) ? Answer: This is also a practice taken from the Hindu yogis. There is no founda - tion for this in Islam. 2 21 September 1901 On the evening of 21 September 1901 when, as per his custom, His Holiness, our Leader, on whom be peace and blessings, was sitting among his companions after completing the Maghrib Prayer, during the course of discussion the subject turned to medical investigations and there was mention of experiments and discoveries by the West in the field of surgery, particularly in Europe and America. After this, a person named Munshi Abdul-Haqq Sahib of Patiala requested for prayers so that he would be blessed with a son. On this, His Holiness, our Honourable and Revered Leader, on whom be peace and blessings, delivered a brief but exquisite 1 al-Baqarah , 2:135 2 Al-Hakam , vol. 5, no. 40, dated 31 October 1901, pp. 1-2 p. 309 ِ َن ْ َو ُ ْد ُ ْب ْ ُع َ ْي ِ ْل َ ْل ِ ََْس َّن ِ َْوَ ْل َ ُن ِ َج ْْل ُ ِت َْقْ ُل ََمَ َخ