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40 Whatever spiritual station he himself achieved was only through love and obedience to the teachings of Muhammad s as. Now, before criticizing the Promised Messiah as, it would have been better if Maulaw i Sahib had considered the claims of other Muslim saints. Some in fact claimed to be more than a reflecting glass for the glory of Allah the Almighty. Hadrat B a yaz i d Bis ta m i announced: ٖ ْر ُ بِذَاتِہ ي ِ اَنَا الْوَاحِد ُ الْفَرْد ُ الْكَب I am the one and only, the greatest one, in my own being. ( Al-Im a mus-Sarhind i : H ay a tuh u wa A‘m a luh u , Abul- H asan ‘Al i al- H asan an-Nadwi, p. 22, D a rul-Ma’mūn lit- Tur a th, Beirut, 1995) Hadrat Syed ‘Abdul Q a dir Jilani rta claims: ِ هللا لَیْس َ فِي ْ جُبَّتِي ْ سِوَی Within my cloak there is nothing but Allah. ( Makt u b a t, vol. 1, Makt u b Number 272) Hadrat Sheikh Far i d-ud-D i n ‘A tta r rta makes the following claim: دخا نم م ی � دخا نم م ی � دخا نم وھا و ربک و ہ � ک�ی� از افرمغ I became God when I cleared my heart of malice, pride, and desires. ( Faw a ’idi Far i diyyah Urdu, Musamma bihi Fuy uda ti