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23 were showered on him by the fanatical populace from all sides, till he was completely buried in the heap that formed a mound all round him. This was the end of this bloody episode of man's brutality and injustice to man under the influence of religion distorted and mistaken through ignorance. When news of this tragedy reached the Promised Messiah, he wrote with a feeling of intense agony: "O Abdul Lateef, thousands upon thousands of blessings from Allah be upon you, for indeed within my lifetime you have set a great example of faith and loyalty. . With regard to those of my disciples whom. I shall leave behind after my death, I have no knowledge what kind of acts they will perform, or what kind of lives they shall live. . . . . . . And thou O Land of Kabul, remain thou a witness to the fact that on the surface of thy ground an awful crime has been perpetrated. Indeed thou hast fallen in the eyes of the Lord, being the land of this great iniquity and injustice. " 11 (Tazkiratul Shahaadatain). Since the main purpose of the Promised Messiah's. Mission was to serve Islam, and to establish the Unity of. God; and since in these days the greatest danger to the Unity of God comes from Christianity-a creed which in the garb of the Unity of God inculcats belief in shirk, in the form of a Trinity of the Godhead, holding up Jesus, son of Mary, as a God, and making him sit at the right hand of God, as a co-sharer in Divine attributes, the Promised Messiah had a remarkably strong feeling against this mistaken and extremely unresanable creed. Besides, in the. Ahaadeeth which bear upon the Mission of the Messiah promised for the Muslims, his main task is stated to be the