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opposition, of a very painful type, on the part of the common people and the Ulama ; while, on the other, it was, throughout, marked by an extraordinary manifestation of the. Promised Messiah's singularly arresting Jamali attributes. This being the Sunnat of Allah, and just as it had happened in the case of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, some people, very close of kin, also took up an extremely hostile attitude; people of the small town where he was born; the rural and urban people all over the country; the rich and the poor; the. Ulama among the Muslims %; those with the. Western type of education, as well as the common people among them; the Christians, and the Hindus, and the followers of all other religions; in short, the people of all sections. and sects joined this virulent and unholy camppaign, with equal misguided fervour. But at every step the remarkable Jamali attributes of the Promised Messiah shone forth with an extraordinary brilliance, even until the whole world came to perceive that this full moon, which had taken its light from the sun, that was the Holy Prophet Muhammad, was certainly not one which the brilliance could be put under a shadow by anything they might do against him. As the days went by, the righteously inclined, from all sections, classes, 20