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113 unavailing and he met with complete discomfiture. In corroboration of my view about Zahiruddin it may also be mentioned that Zahiruddin is one of those few men who held that in fulfilment of one of the visions of the Promised Messiah as , Khalifatul Masih I ra had turned an apostate towards the latter part of his life. This is some of the internal evidence which goes to disprove the allegation made by Maulawi Muhammad Ali that Khalifatul Masih I ra expelled M. Zahiruddin because he disapproved of his book Nabiyyullah Ka Zahur. I shall now proceed to adduce some external evidence. First, there is the fact that reference to the book Nabiyyullah Ka Zahur is to be found in various places in the Ahmadiyya literature, but nowhere has a voice been raised in condemnation of the book. On the contrary, wherever any comment is to be found, it is invariably in commendation of the book. In The Badr , volume for 1911, may be seen an acknowledgement of the receipt of the book and an advertisement of it issued by the editor, but not a word which may be said to be adverse to the book. If the book was really so objectionable, how was it that notices regarding it, were issued in the newspapers of the Movement by the editors of the papers but not a word was said to warn the Community against its obnoxious contents? It is no doubt true that particular