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14 Eik Ghala ti K a Iz a la tions * that 'He shall be from me'. 27 This is a very sub- tle hint that he will derive his spiritual existence from the Holy Prophet sa and will be a reflection of his spirit. This notion is strongly supported by the words which the Holy Prophet sa used in describing his rela- tionship with the Promised Mahdi as , for he went so far as to give him his own name. This clearly signifies that the Holy Prophet sa wished to describe the Prom- ised One as his own Bur u z , just as Joshua was the Bur u z of Hadrat Moses as. And it is by no means nec- essary for the Bur u z to be the son or grandson of Sahib-i-Bur u z. 28 What is essential is that, in respect of spiritual relationship, the Bur u z must have emerged from Sahibi Bur u z , and this mutual gravitation and relationship between the two must have been ordained from the very beginning. It would be wholly contrary to the splendid wisdom of the Holy Prophet sa that he should omit the description of the true connotation of …contd from previous page… the former Salm a n. a I declare on the basis of Divine revelation that I am Persian by descent and, according to the Hadith recorded in Kanzul ‘Um- m a l, the Persians are not only Israelites but are also among the Ahl-e-Bait. b In a vision, Hadrat Fatima ra placed my head on her lap and thus showed me that I too belonged to her progeny. This vision is recorded in Br a h i n-e- Ahmadiyya. [Author] a Hadrat Salm a n F a rs i ra [Publishers] b Kanzul ‘Umm a l , Vol. 12, Hadith 34132, 34133. [Publishers] 27 Abu D a ’ u d, Kit a bul Mahdi, B a b I [Publishers] 28 Sahib-i-Bur u z: The Prophet or Saint whose spiritual image is manifested in the Bur u z. [Publishers]