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the ~-emergence of Caliphate with its foundation firmly laid on the Prophetic conception of moral values. In other words, Allah the High, will then raise a servant of the threshold of the Holv Prophet Muhammad lpeace of Allah be on him and His _choicest blessings) with the honorific insignia of r9ftex-prophethood and shall, through him, initiate ;. the era of true Islamic Caliphate. , 'l'his tradition is self-evident in that, besides its panorami~ beauty, it. declar. es in clear, plain and unambiguous words -that as Islam began with the Caliphate• founded on the prophethood bastion, so shall it re-emerge in the latter days through a '!imihlrly constituted Caliphate. Its significance unfolds. itself in the appointment. of a servant ot' the Holy Prophet (Peace of Allah be on him and His choicest blessings ever and evermore) as a reftex-ProJ>het in whose footsteps shall ri'se the second cycle of Cali- phate. According to the narrator of this tradition, after making this observation, the Holy Prophet bt'came silent. It was a very significant pause indeed, in that, it hinted that,. with the commencement of this see. ond cycle of C'aliphate, the old order will end bringing in the new. This rennaissance has found its emergence. by the grace of God, with the appel\r- ance of the Founder of the Abmadiyya Movement. ln &lishkat, the famotis work on Hadith, the following words occur in between the lines of the above-tradi- tion : -tS. J. •· \f. . , ~(:)Aj +,,t ,l. ,-J\c:. >1. . ;,A\Ji. \\ cr''f,r<(if~w,~, d. ' ;J1:. ,) "E,·idently this in truth means the Caliphate of the period Isa nnd Mahdi. "I' ---- 1. J,1111hkat p11bli1hrd by As/rah al Mntahi, Karac-hi page 461.