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MELANCHOLIA. Abdul Hafeez joins the bandwagon of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam. Ahmad's as adversaries to prove that he suffered from melancholic depression and to establish this false charge, he quotes ancient and medieval as well as antiquated medical opinions 100 despite the fact that the world has advanced in this field of knowledge to such an extent that modern authorities on human psychology and psychiatry have not only rejected these outdated opinions relied upon by the author of Two in One but have even questioned the more recent classifications in this field and admitted that 'it has become clear that many older classifications of concepts of illness need to be extensively modified. 1101 Yet, the pseudo experts of human psychology and psychiatry such as Abdul Hafeez rely upon these primitive opinions and also argue that these defunct classifications of ancient writers are as valid today as these were more than 2,000 years ago. 102 It is, therefore, not surprising that the more recent experts of human psycho-psychiatry have asserted that the entire realm of concepts pertaining to these fields are poorly formulated, particularly in the Middle Eastern and Asian cultures. Therefore, there are no equivalent words for modern terms in this field in these cultures 103, - only because specialists and practitioners in these regions of the world have failed to advance with the great strides being taken in this particular branch of medical science. Hence, what modern experts in the field of psycho-psychiatry define as normal anxiety appropriate to circumstances experienced as a natural concomitant of the arousal needed to deal with a particular situation 104, self proclaimed Asiatic experts of human behaviour such as Abdul. Hafeez still live in antiquated times and define such normal conditions as melancholic depression although they admit that 100. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One, p. 11/15 101. Stuart A. Montgomery, Anxiety and Depression, p. vii 102. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One, p. 11/15 103. Stuart A. Montgomery, Anxiety and Depression, p. 9 104. p. 23 145