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1893 305 obedience to the Holy Prophet, on whom be peace, and that I am the Promised Messiah and that I have been equipped with a weapon of light, which will totally dispel the darkness and will be the equivalent of breaking the Cross. [ H ujjatul-Isl a m, p. 9, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 6, p. 49] 1893 I saw that this man [Maulav i Muhammad H usain] will acknowledge my being a believer before his death and I saw that he had given up calling me K a fir [disbeliever] and had repented of this position. I saw all this in a dream and I am hoping that my Lord will make it come true 356. [ H ujjatul-Isl a m, p. 19, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 6, p. 59] June 5, 1893 What was disclosed to me last night is that when I supplicated the Divine with great humility and earnestness: ‘May You decide this matter between us; we are Your humble servants, we cannot accomplish anything except through Your will. ’ He gave me this Sign, as a glad tiding, that whichever of the two parties in this debate 357 is deliberately adopting a false stand and deserting the True 356 Note by Hadrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad ra : In 1914, twenty years after this prophecy, Maulav i Muhammad H usain had the following testimony recorded in the court of Magistrate Grade 1, in the District of Gujranwala, with reference to different sects of Islam: All these sects believe the Holy Qur’an to be the Word of God. Like the Qur’an, all these sects also believe in h ad i th. A new sect, Ahmad i , started a short time ago ever since Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian made his claim to be the Massiah and Mahd i. This sect also believes equally in the Qur’an and h ad i th. … My sect certainly does not consider any of the above mentioned sects to be k a fir [disbelievers]. [For details see al-Fa d l, vol. 1, no. 35, February 11, 1914, p. 3] 357 The reference is to the debate between the Promised Messiah as and Deputy ‘Abdull a h A tham which is described in Jang-e-Muqaddas. [Mirza Bashir Ahmad]