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29 person………Now that Mirza Sahib has completed his task, we have to concede and recognize the value and grandeur of the literature created by him. The great defense put up by him has not only torn to shreds the early influence of Christianity, gained by that religion under the British rule, and as a result of that prestige; in fact, the whole magic of Christianity has begun to scatter like a cloud of smo ke……Moreover, in breaking the fangs of the Arya Samaj as well, Mirza Sahib has rendered a service to Islam in future we shall never be in position to overlook and ignore the writings of Mirza Sahib. ” ( Va eel, Amritsar, June 1908 ) This unrivalled Jihad of the Promised Messiah, which he carried on with his pen to establish the truth and grandeur of Islam and the Holy Quran, was undoubtedly of the intellectual kind on the surface which does not immediately appear to be connected with the Ishq or love which the Promised Messiah had for the Holy Prophet. But if we look closely at the question, we must admit that Islam from the Holy Prophet, and the Holy Prophet from Islam, can in no case be separated, for both go together, All the service the Promised Messiah rendered to Islam was, therefore, a result of the unbounded love he had for the Holy Prophet and for the great religion founded by him. 14 In spite of all these unrivaled services, when the Promised Messiah takes his stand in front of the Holy Prophet, this is the reason why, like a dutiful and obedient pupil, devoted and loyal, and like a grateful servant, every flower he plucks, he immediately offers at the feet of his master, and continues to repeat, over and over again, that whatever little he had achieved was all due to the virtue he had won be obedience to the Holy Prophet and following in his footsteps. To quote only one instance here, says he: “On Oath, in the name of the same God, I claim that just as God spoke to Abraham, and then to Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Joseph, and Moses and Jesus the son of Mary, and finally to our own Holy Prophet Muhammad, in a manner much more clear