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193 than he broke out reciting in a loud voice the Quranic verse "They do not fear the slander of any slanderer. " This, however, was not all. The next day, Maulawi Sayyid Muhammad Ahsan himself delivered an address in the Masjid Aqsa. In the course of this address also, he praised my lecture and in these words: "There was a revelation to the Promised Messiah as 'I give you glad tidings of a boy, the manifestation of truth and greatness'. " The revelation was in accord with the prophecy contained in the Hadith relating to the Promised Messiah as —that he would marry and would be granted sons who would be great. We have accordingly, amongst us Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad who, in addition to being the noble son of a noble father, has in spite of his extreme youth disclosed, in the sermon he delivered in explanation of some Quranic verses, such a depth of knowledge and such an insight into truth as is indeed without a