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that such a phenomenon could occur, then the entire premise of this foul criticism levelled against Hadhrat Ahmadas becomes evidence of Abdul Hafeez's ignorance of Islamic religious knowledge. . Hadhrat Jalal ud Din Rumith, a noble sage of his time was also the founder of the Jalaali school of sufism. He discussed this concept of spiritual pregnancy at length and stated: 'God confines free spirits into bodies and makes each body pregnant by the spirit. Each of us is a Messiah for the world. '19. The free spirit confined into bodies spoken of here by the venerable saint does not refer to the infusion of that which makes a woman physically pregnant. This should be evident from the above quotation itself. However, if the author of Two in One refuses to accept this assertion that the pregnancy spoken of here is in fact a spiritual pregnancy, then one offers a further explanation of this concept in the words of the aforementioned sage himself who stated: 'The Whole forms a relation with the part and from this, just as a woman receives a sperm from man, the sense of man receives a pearl. The soul of the man then becomes pregnant as did Mary and from this pregnancy is born a Messiah. This. Messiah is not the Messiah who lived in the past, but is a. Messiah whose glory is not easy to comprehend. When the spirit of God makes pregnant the spirit of man, that spirit then makes the world pregnant. This produces a spiritual revolution and resurrection in the world which is so grand as to defy description. ' 120. Now, when one refers to Hadhrat Ahmad's as statement in. Kashti Nuh which has been subjected to such ridicule by Abdul. Hafeez in his publication, Two in One, one finds that this is 19. Rumi, [Hadhrat] Jalal ud Din Rumi. Miftah al Ulum, Daftar No. i, Pt. i, p. 55 20. Ibid. , Miftah al Ulum vol. 1, p. 11 110