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'If God calls a pious man His son, it only means that He is graciously inclined to him and is kind to him. It would be totally wrong to interpret such a statement literally. 142. Therefore, there is absolutely no cause to take exception to. Hadhrat Ahmad as being given the appellation of being 'the like of the son of God' in these revelations which are often manipulated to allege that he claimed to be the son of God in a literal sense. Hadhrat Ahmadas explained this appellation used in relation to him and stated that: 'God Almighty is far above having any sons and neither has. He an associate and therefore no one has a right to claim that he is the son of God. But this sentence has been stated as a reflection and metaphorically. 143. He also made it quite clear that his 'being called a son of God was a mere statement of spiritual grade that had been bestowed upon him and that a son of God in a literal sense was not meant by this revelation, 144 He discussed the figurative use of this expression at great length and stated: 'Those people who efface their identity in the love of God are called the sons of God. But this does not mean that they are. His sons in the literal sense since such an assertion would be positively blasphemous as Holy is He, far above having any sons. They are figuratively called the sons of God because like children, they remain in constant remembrance of God with complete devotion. God refers to this kind of supplication in the Quran when He states: Remember Allah with such love as children love their father. This is why God has been called the father in the Arya scriptures and has also been figuratively compared to a mother in so much that as a mother nourishes a child from her womb, God nourishes His creatures in the lap 42. Nanauta, Muhammad Qasim. vide. Hujjatul Islam, p. 14 43. Ahmad, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam, Dafa e Balaa, p. 7, f/n; Ruhani Khazain, vol. 18, p. 227 44. Ahmad, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam, Tauzeeh e Maram, p. 28; Ruhani Khazain, vol. 3, pp. 65/6 72