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126 myself vouchsafed to me by Allah the Almighty. ( Kit a bul- Bariyyah, Ru ha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 13, p. 103–105) Esteemed readers! To strengthen his dishonest case, Maulaw i Sahib has liberally chopped this vision. He completely omits those words that indicate Hadrat Mirza Sahib’s absorption into, yet sep- arate existence from, God. For example, he omits the sentences: The spirit of Allah the Almighty encompassed me com- pletely. He took hold of my physical body and hid me within His Being. My Lord took hold of me so powerfully that I became absorbed into His Being. Allah employed all my faculties in His service and He held me with such immense power that a greater power cannot exist. Maulaw i Sahib very cunningly removed these sentences because they prove that Hadrat Mirza Sahib did not claim to be God. Rather, they show that, in a state of vision, God’s splendour descended upon him. There is nothing objectionable in this. Maulaw i Sahib resorts to deception and gives the impression that it was Hadrat Mirza Sahib who entitled the vision, ‘I am God, I am the Creator’, when in fact it was Maulaw i Sahib who manufac- tured these titles. As far as the question of God and Godhead is concerned, we have already listed the claims to divinity made by Hadrat