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hiding true facts and creating some doubt in the minds of simple minded people whose intellectual capacity often limits them from reading between the lines. For instance, when one refers to Hadhrat Ahmad's as original work, one finds that this passage quoted by his adversaries reads: 'In a vision I saw that I myself was God and believed myself to be such. I felt that I had no will or thought or action of my own left, and that I had become like something which was being completely overpowered by something else that had absorbed me wholly so that my own being had completely disappeared. I saw the divine spirit envelop my soul and covering my body hide me completely in itself so that not a particle of me remained. I beheld myself as if all my limbs had become His, my eyes had become His eyes, my ears had become His ears and my tongue had become His tongue. My. Lord seized me with such great force that I disappeared in. Him and I felt that His power was surging in me and that His divinity was coursing through me. The Lord of honour then set. His camp around my heart and the Lord of power ground down my soul so that there was no more of me nor any desire of mine left. My whole structure was demolished and only the structure of the Lord of the universe remained visible. . The Divine overcame me with such force that I was drawn to. Him from the hair of my head to the nails of my toes. Then I became all spirit which had no body and became an oil which had no dregs. I was separated completely from my ego and. I became like something which was not visible or like a drop which had become merged in the ocean so that the ocean comprehended it in its vastness. I no longer knew what I had been before nor what my being was. Divinity coursed through my veins and muscles. I was completely lost to myself and. God Almighty employed my limbs for His purpose and took possession of me with such force that nothing exceeded it. By this seizure I became non existent. I believed that my limbs had become God's limbs and I imagined that I had discarded my own being and had departed from my existence, and that 62