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This Kalimah has been recorded in a different manner in another instance where it has been substituted to read: 'Laa 'ilaaha 'il-lal-laah Mu'in ud Din-Rasuu-lullaah,' i. e. , 'There is no god but Allah, and Mu'in ud Din is His Messenger. '. It is also recorded that once a man came to enter into the discipleship of Hadhrat Khawaja Mu'in ud Din Chishtira and. Hadhrat Khawaja Ajmerira asked him to recite the Kalimah but when the man recited the Islamic Kalimah: 'The Khawaja said to him: Say it like this, There is no god but. Allah and Chishti is the Messenger of Allah. The man did so, and the Khawaja accepted the pledge from him and invested him with the robe of honour. ' 19. Such substitution has also been made in relation to Hadhrat. Khawaja Habib Ullah Attar who instructed a disciple: 'Lengthen your saying of la ilaha, and efface the thought of all others, other than God from the heart. After that, ill-Allah should be stressed, and you should consider me the messenger of Allah. '10. Abdul Hafeez's own spiritual predecessor Maulvi Ashraf Ali. Thanvi of the Deoband fame had a Kalimah concocted in his name by one of his disciples which read: 'Laa ilaaha 'il-lal-laah Ashraf Al-Rasuu-lullaah,' i. e. , There is no go but Allah, and Ashraf Ali is His Messenger. ' #11. Similarly, an Indian saint Sheikh Sadiq Gangohi told a disciple to pronounce his name in the Kalimah as a messenger of Allah. 8. Haft Aktalab, p. 167. vide. Kitab e Mahfooz, p. 22 9. vide. Fawa'id as Salikeen, p. 18 10. Attar, [Hadhrat] Khawaja Habib Ullah. vide. Masnavi Bahr al Irfan, vol. 1, p. 179 11. Al Imdad, Safar, 1336 AH, circa. 1918, p. 35 218