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37 necessary by the Community to declare in a formal manner their religious beliefs so that there should remain no mistake or misunderstanding about it. In order to make this declaration fully representative of the views of the community, a meeting of the Majlis-i-Mushawarat was called at Rabwah and was attended by the accredited representatives of the various branches of the Anjuman and was presided over by the Head of the Ahmadiyya Community himself. As a result of its deliberations a formal declaration was drawn up which had the concurrence of the Head of the Ahmadiyya Community and this declaration was published in the press. The relevant portion of the declaration by which, formally and in a most solemn manner, the Ahmadiyya Community declared its religious beliefs is reproduced below for the information of this Hon’ble Court. “AHMADIYYA COMMUNITY CHIEF’S DECLARATION. Rabwah, June 15(A. P. P. ) Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad, Head of the Ahmadiyya Community, has issued the following declaration at the request of the Ahmadiyya M ajlis-i- Mushawarat held here on May 15, 1953. “In the name of Allah, the Gracious the Merciful. “We hold that God, the All-Powerful is the Ruler of this Universe, that He is everlasting and has no equal. We firstly believe that Islam is the only true religion and that the Holy Quran is God’s own revealed book. We also believe in the angels, the revealed Scriptures, the advent of Prophets, the R esurrection and in the ‘Taqdeer’ of good and evil as taught in the Holy Quran. “We regard the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be upon him) as the greatest of all Prophets and as ‘Khataman-Nabiyyeen’ and we believe that the law revealed to him is the last divine law for mankind which, let alone any human