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of the Holy Quran: 'He it is Who sendeth down water from the sky and We bring forth buds of every kind. 129 'And Allah it is who sendeth the winds and they raise a cloud; then We lead it unto a dead land and revive therewith the earth after its death. Such is Resurrection. '30. Let Abdul Hafeez ponder over these passages of the Glorious. Quran and consider his allegation against Hadhrat Ahmadas in the light of these Quranic verses. 3. The third allegation which the author of Two in One makes is that Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas declared that the 'angels are the names of heavenly bodies and spirits of stars and whatever happens, occurs under the influence of the stars (31 whereas what he actually stated was: 'It appears clearly from certain indications in the Quran that some pure beings that are called angels have a distinct relationship with heavenly bodies. Some of them drive the wind and some cause rain to descend and some others cause other influences to descend upon the earth. There is no doubt that those creation would be related to the bright and illuminated stars that are in heaven, but this relationship that exists between them should not be deemed to be the relationship that exists between every animate and its soul. . Those pure spirits have, on account of the brightness and light they possess, spiritually an indeterminate relationship with the bright stars which is so strong that, if it were supposed that those pure spirits had departed from those stars, the faculties of the later would be upset. It is through the hidden power of those spirits that the stars carry out their functions. It might be said that as God Almighty is, as it were, 29. Al Quran 6. 100; English Translation, Marmaduke Pickthall, p. 200 30. Al Quran 35. 9; English Translation, Marmaduke Pickthall, p. 200 31. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One, p. 50 317