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Kalam Azad Sahib observed: 'The demise of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib is not such an event that a lesson should not be learnt from it nor should it be consigned to the passage of time to efface. Such people who produce a religious or intellectual revolution are not born often. These sons of history, in whom it rightly takes pride, appear but rarely on the world scene, and when they do they bring about a revolution for all to see. "8 184. But, it is an established fact of history that this kind of a revolution is never observed by the spiritually blinded or else the thirteen companions of Abu Jahl who died at Badr would not have wasted their lives. Therefore, one does not expect. Abdul Hafeez to be in a position to be able to observe the spiritual revolution which Hadhrat Ahmad as brought unless God. Almighty, in His Infinite grace bestows a better understanding upon him. Nonetheless, Hadhrat Ahmadas left an indelible mark on the history of mankind as all prophets of God do irrespective of how their adversaries attempt to minimise their contribution. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, himself a religious scholar of great repute and leader of Muslims in India stated in relation to him: 'It is not likely that a man of this grandeur will be born again in the religious world of the Indian subcontinent who would devote his highest desires in this way to the study of religion. 185. The impact of Hadhrat Ahmad's as success did not die with him and this is evident from the statement of Maulana Sayyid Mir. Hasan who stated more than a quarter of a century later: 'Sadly we did not appreciate him. I just cannot describe his spiritual accomplishments. His life was not that of ordinary 84. Azad, Maulana Abul Kalam. Vakeel, Amritsar, May, 1908 29 85. Ibid.