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this wrong concept, to its gradual growth in the shape of a nation-wide creed, obsessing the heads and hearts of all the sundry and because of ever- growing distance in time from the Holy Prophet's days, the Muslim masses began to believ thnt it was in no way creditable to the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) to be one who starts a new spiritual stream but that his greatness lay in being the terminator of all the former currents. I am con- fident that on a dispassionate examination of this issue, anybody with detached mind, will most cer- tainly !!,nd himself at one with us in the conclus- ion that the whole of this misconception has ,been due to a lack of appreciation of the true status of the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him). Would that our opponents cared to grasp this point. Now I will briefly to1ich upon individual op• inions. The first pronouncement that we come ac- ross in this connection, is that of Hazrat Ali (May Allah de pleased with him). He was a cousin of our Holy Prophet, husbnnd of the Blessed Prophet's dear daughter Hazrat Fatima (may Allah be pleas- ed with her) and the fourth Khlllifa of Islam. His high station is well-expressed in the words of the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) "I am the city of knowledge and Ali is its gate". This luminary, it is stated, employed one Abu Abdur Rahman bin Salma to coach his two sons, Hazrat Hassan and Hussain. Allah be pleased with them). Says Abu Abdur Rahman : ~;. J~cll>,~. ,1~1,~,~~, ~ JJ\. . ,; U. ,31u ,. , ~ ciis1 UWt. J ~u. ~ r ~ ~ I. . ll -·. •. '!' -:,,. . l. . i. ·". . , ,. ~~~r-' ,~_,. , Pi;~Ct. ;J4~,,;;"~. :;J 12S'