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Such comments could not have been fortcoming had Hadhrat. Ahmad as not been blessed with a unique power of persuasion with which to revive and reform the spiritually dead - powers bestowed upon prophets and messengers by the Almighty God and powers which Muslim divines acknowledged Hadhrat. Ahmadas was endowed with. Maulana Sayyid Mumtaz Ali observed in the columns of his magazine: 'The late Mirza Sahib was a very saintly and exalted personage. He had such spiritual power born of virtue that it could enslave the most hardened of hearts. He was a very knowledgeable scholar, a reformer of high resolve and an exemplar of the most virtuous life. Although we did not believe him to be the Promised Messiah, his guidance and teaching was indeed messianic for the spiritually dead. " 181. There is however a particular class of the spiritually dead whom God Almighty in His wisdom determines to leave beyond the power of any human being to revive. These are the ones to whom the Holy Quran has alluded in the words: 'They say, our hearts are secure under coverings against that which thou callest us, and in our ears is a heaviness, and between us and thee there is a veil. So carry on thy works, we, too, are working. ' 182. They are the ones on whose heart, according to the Holy. Quran, a veil has been placed and in their ears deafness. 83 The early history of Islam witnessed one such spiritually dead in 'Abd al Uzza alias Abu Lahab and the other in Abu Hikam alias. Abu Jahl and the current history of Islam is witnessing one in. Abdul Hafeez. How then could the author of Two in One be expected to appreciate the life of Hadhrat Ahmad as a life within which, like all prophets in history, he produced such a spiritual revolution that on his sad demise, Maulana Abul 81. Ali, Maulana Mumtaz. Tehzib e Niswan, Lahore 82. Al Quran 41. 6 83. Ibid. 18. 58 28