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THE APPELLATION OF MARY AND JESUS. Abdul Hafeez's attempt to ridicule Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam. Ahmad's as statement that God Almighty has bestowed upon him the appellations of Mary and Jesus is, once again, evidence of his thorough ignorance of Islamic thought. It is somewhat ironic that rather than try and understand this beautiful and spiritually charged phenomenon, he has ridiculed the entire concept and questioned if it is not evidence that Hadhrat Ahmadas was an imbecile. " However, before one proceeds to expose his ignorance of such spiritually charged concepts, it may be pertinent to refer to Hadhrat Ahmad'sas original statement which has been distorted to direct this vulgar abuse. He states in one of his books: 'In the Braheen e Ahmadiyya, God first named me Mary and then stated that I have breathed the spirit of Truth in this Mary and named it Jesus. Hence, in this state of possessing the qualities of Mary, Jesus came into being and in the Word of. God, I came to be called the son of Mary. There is an indication of this in the Quran also which to me is a prophecy, that is, the Quran has given some people from amongst this ummah a similitude of Mary. ' 178. It should be evident from this original statement that Hadhrat. Ahmadas did not claim that he was Mary but that he was named her. Therefore, it is perfectly dishonest of the author of Two in. One to allege that on the basis of this statement, he was Mary. 79. Secondly, Abdul Hafeez may, in his extremely confined intellectual capacity to understand matters of such spiritual elegance, consider this statement to be an evidence of imbecility. . But, this does not alter the fact that the system of naming people according to their characteristics, qualities and accomplishments 76. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One. pp. 2/3. TI. . Ibid. p. 2. P. 78. Ahmad, [Hadhrat] Mirza Ghulam. Haqeeqatul Wahi, p. 337; Ruhani Khazain, vol. xxii, 79. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One, Front Cover Page 350 82