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76 the Golgotha Hill. Maulana Murtaza Ahmad Khan Maikash and the learned divines with him claim that the first mortgage on God is theirs, the consideration for the mortgage being the surrender of intellect. Do you also claim any special or separate mortgage on God for the belief in Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib’s nubuwwat? A. We admit none of the mortgages; nor do we claim any. To Maulana Maikash (continued):- Q. You said yesterday that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib preferred himself only to Isa Ibn-i-Maryam, but the “Alfazl” of 4th and 6th April 1915, Ex. D. E. 325, purports to reproduce the following passage from Mirza Sahib’s diary, dated 17th April 1902:- ی �پاےئ اجےت ےھت وہ س ب رضحت روسل رک� ی ب یاء م ف ر ا� ی “ امکالت ِ رفتمہق وج امتم د� ےس ی � ر وموجد ےھت. اور اب وہ اسرے امکالت رضحت روسل رک� ھک ر � ب ان ےس � ی م یم. ومیسٰ. ونح. داؤد. �ہ� ام آدم. ا�ب را ف ارا � ہ ّی وطر رپ مہ وک اطع ےئک ےئگاور ایس ےئل � ل �ظ ام اِوساےطس ےہ ہک رضحت ف ارا � ہ یم � �ہ� ی رہ ےہ. انچہچن ا�ب را ف ی ٰ و� ع�یس ٰ. یم�ان. �ی سل� �ی وفس. ےھت ت رپس ت ب اخہن اھت. اور ولگ � ت ب �پ ی دا وہےئ ےھت ہک وہ � ی اقمم م ی یم ا� �ہ� ا�ب را 19 ”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . احل ےہ. ی اور اب یھب ولوگں اک � Does this not show that Mirza Sahib claimed to be better than all the prophets named in this passage? A. Mirza Sahib kept no regular diary in those days and this passage merely purports to be a report by a certain reporter. But assuming that this is a correct report, it does not show that Mirza Sahib preferred himself to other prophets. It merely purports to reproduce the attributes which Mirza Sahib claimed to possess in common with other prophets. Q. The general body of Muslims do not say funeral prayers for Ahmadis because the former consider the latter to be kafirs. What is your reason for not saying funeral prayers for non-