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290 proselytising activities. Thus it was that Khwaja Sahib, who had shown such courage in publishing in Turkish lands, this prophecy of the Promised Messiah as relating to Turkey assumed such a deep silence when the prophecy was actually fulfilled that he never again even mentioned the subject. The year 1913 was marked by two important events. On my return from the Hajj I was much impressed by the need for strengthening the press at Qadian. This need was suggested to me by Maulawi Abul Kalam Azad’s paper Al-Hilal , which was largely subscribed to by Ahmadis, so that there was reason to apprehend that some Ahmadis might be influenced by the poisonous writings of that paper. Accordingly, I bestirred myself for the purpose, and secured the permission of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra for the publication of a new paper from Qadian, which in addition to religious matters, should contain matters also of general interest, and thus enable Ahmadis to satisfy their need for religious as well as general reading from the organs of the Movement. After I had obtained the permission of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra , I heard that our friends Dr. Mirza Ya‘qub Baig, Dr. Sayyid Muhammad Husain Shah and Shaikh Rahmatullah also proposed publishing a paper from Lahore. As soon as I received the news, I sent a note