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bestows the very thing which He gave to Mary. 127 He also stated that if this veil be lifted from the soul, every one of them would say, I am the Messiah. 128 Apparently, this veil was lifted for. Hadhrat Jalal ud Din Rumith since he not only stated that 'God confines free spirits into bodies and makes each body pregnant by the spirit, 129 but he also declared in relation to himself and the sufis of the Ummah that 'each one of them is a Messiah for the world. 130 He stated: 'I am Jesus, but whoever receives life from my breath lives forever. Those who were brought to life by Jesus dies, but fortunate are they who entrusted their lives to this Jesus. 131. Abdul Hafeez has published this filthy artist's impression on the cover page of his book with the view that those who subscribe to this concept of the spiritual birth of a person from within one's self through the bounty of God should realise how sick they are and also visualise the basis of their religion. 32. Would he now draw a similar caricature of Hadhrat Jalal ud. Rumith who held the same view as Hadhrat Ahmadas and who also claimed to have been born as Jesus in a similar manner as. Hadhrat Ahmad as so that the author of Two in One may illustrate to those who subscribe to Jalaali sufic thought the state of their mind and the basis of their religion?. This ignorant pir from Gujjo may, to his heart's wont, consider this idea of a person being made spiritually pregnant by the spirit of God and of being born in their second birth from within themselves a ridiculous idea and evidence of imbecility and therefore a subject of obnoxious satire. But this does not alter the fact that most sufis of the ummah subscribed to this concept and many claimed to have been spiritually born an Ibne. Mariamas in this manner which is considered ridiculous or sign of imbecility by people of meagre intellectual understanding of 27. Rumi, [Hadhrat] Jalal ud Din. Miftah al Ulum, vol. 1, p. 11 28. Ibid. , vol. ii, p. 247 29. Ibid. , Daftar No. 1, Pt. 1, p. 55 30. Ibid 31. Ibid. , Miftah al Ulum, vol. vii, p. 45 32. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One, p. 7 113