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through his _grace and his certifying· seal. Give vour testimony therefore, being honest to God, in whose hands lie the lives of us all and. before ·whom we must one day appear and answer for our deeds. Does the greatne1>s of the- Holy prophet (Allah bless him) lie in the cessation'. of every kind of proph~t- hood 11fter him or in its denial to others ·than his followers and its grant being made contingent. on allegiance to him? I am s11re every Muslim who has. true love for the Holy Prophet ( Allah bless him) who is conscious of comparative height. of ·his rank, will, with true· conviction, and heartfelt faith, endorse the view that it is inherent in the exalted position •of the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) that the door to reflex-prophethood should remain open to his followers and votaries. Moses. was followed by a host of prophets. Though they d-id. ·not receive ·this grace t_hrough allegiance• to _him they were never- theless commissioned to serve his law and were under him. It i,ii a pity indeed that you caQnot bear up with one devotee of the Roly Prophet (Allah bless him) bei()g graced_ with the rank of prophethood- his claim rankles so in your sides. • Since unfortunately a great misunderstanding persists among non-Ahmadi Muslims in re~pect of the sense in which the Holy·· I<'ouridt!r • of· the· Ahrnacliyya. Movement (peace be on him) claimed or in the sense, we beJieye him, ~o be a prophet, it is well worthwhile adding here by way of further ·clarification, that it is certainly not at all in the sense generally held by the Muslims. According to the erroneous concept of Prophethood persisting among them, every prophet • must bring a new law, or rriodify the preceding law, or must be-. independent of the preceding prophet, should initiate a new creed of his own or found a new faith. When they come acrciss the Ahmadiyya literature er learn from Ahmadis ·of references to th,e Protnised. l\fessiah's (Allah bless· him) claim to 154