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iii purity to the ends of the world. To achieve this, he initiated Ta h r i k-e-Jad i d through which spread, and continues to spread, the missionary work all over the globe. His acute intelligence, keen intellect, deep and extensive scholarship and above all his God-given knowledge enabled him to produce a vast corpus of writings, speeches etc. His oeuvre is so vast that it will take many years to see the light of publication. When the promised Messiah as fervently prayed to God to grant him a Sign in support of Islam, Allah gave him the good tiding about this son of his and said: "…He will be extremely intelligent … and will be filled with secular and spiritual knowledge … Son, delight of the heart, high ranking, noble; a manifestation of the First and the Last, of the True and the High; as if Allah has descended from heaven. Behold a light cometh. We shall pour our spirit into him…" [Revelation of 20 th February 1886] * * Translation from Urdu by Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan in his English translation of Tadhkirah—the book containing dreams, visions and verbal revelations vouchsafed to the Promised Messiah as. [Publisher]