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12 ostentation. Often those who wish to establish or portray them- selves as possessing sublime morals do perform such deeds. (Malf ūzā t, vol. 1, p. 213) Our Proclamation The existence of adversaries is our advertisement. It is their favour that they continue to propagate. It is written in Mathnawī that a thief was stealing from a house. A man saw the thief from the top of his house and said, ‘What are you doing?’ The thief replied, ‘I am beating a drum’. The man replied, ‘There is no sound from your drumming’. The thief replied, ‘The sound of this drumming shall be heard in the morning, and everyone will hear it’. People who oppose me also make noise in the same manner, which in turn informs more people about me. (Malf ūzā t, vol. 5, p. 371–372) About the Inoculation for Plague Vaccination for protection from the plague was under discussion. Hadrat Nawab Muhammad Ali Khan ra said, ‘How many peo- ple can the vaccination reach?’ Upon this, the Promised Messiah as smiled and said: This is the very parable whose depiction is recorded in