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CHARGES OF IMPOTENCY. Abdul Hafeez then proceeds to cite several quotations, supposedly from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's literature, to prove his charge that Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam. Ahmadas suffered from impotency. " In the first instance, if one was to even suppose that these quotations in the hostile publication are a genuine representation of the original statements made by Hadhrat Ahmadas, then rather then reflect adversely against his person, these stand to his credit and enhance his personality since it takes a high degree of honesty and courage for a person to admit weakness in this particular aspect of one's life and it is only hypocrites and liars who lie and boast about it. Secondly, there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever in religious thought which even remotely suggests that a lack of physical virility reflect seriously upon the stature of God Almighty's apostles. And finally, it is an established fact of life that weakness in this particular sphere is not abnormal for human beings to suffer, particularly at a certain advanced age. All these quotations which Abdul Hafeez provides in evidence to establish the said charge against Hadhrat Ahmadas refer to an advanced period of his life when he was around the age of fifty. What is so abnormal about the feeling that one is not at the height of his physical strength at around this period of his age?. In fact, had Abdul Hafeez been honest in his purpose, he would not have used these quotations to establish his false charge of impotency. The first citations furnished as evidence by the author of Two in One, which incidentally is cited from a hostile publication Navista e Ghaib by a certain Khalid. Wazirabadi does not, as Abdul Hafeez insinuates, admit a permanent condition of impotency. It merely states that the author 'used to think that he is impotent 93 whose apprehension, if ever expressed by Hadhrat Ahmadas was, in the first instance, 91. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One, p. 10 142 92. Ibid. 93. Ibid.