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28 to succour, they should continue to hammer home the fact of the death of Jesus, until at last he who is really and truly dead should come to be recognised as such by the European,. American and other Christian nations of the world, and until the blessed name of the Holy Founder of Islam comes prevail over all false notions of this kind. And they should rest perfectly and fully assured that all this will certainly come to pass; for, in the words of the Promised Messiah. : "This is, verily, a definite. Decree of the heavens,. Which shall surely come to pass. No matter how adverse. The intervening circumstances!" 13. Again, Hazrat Muftee Muhammad Sadiq relates that the Promised Messiah often used to remark : "Our main principles are two : (a) to maintain a clear and pure contact with God; and (b) to deal with His creatures on the basis of fellow feeling, sympathy and high morals. " (Zikr-i-Habeeb, page 180). The whole life of the Promised Messiah revolved round these two points. He devoted the best of his endeavours to the task of establishing the Unity of God, and to improving the relationship between the Creator and His creatures. To the attainment of this aim he devoted all his energies. He often used to remark that the other religions, really speaking, were altogether alien to the true and proper conception of. God, being involved in various kinds of shirk (idol worship), which had put an end to their progress in things of the. Spirit; but that unfortunately the Muslims of the present day also had been caught up in various kinds of the darkness