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80 article. ''But the intense love for religion and zeal for the service of Islam so transparent in the above unvarnished words are some-thing miraculous. " He continued: "Now let those black-hearted people who call Mirza Sahib an impostor answer this question: If all this is an imposture then whence arose this genuine zeal in the heart of this young boy? Falsehood is dirt and ought to produce only obnoxious fruits and not something so pure and beautiful of which we can hardly find a parallel. " Again he wrote: "Consider whether we can ever deem him an impostor whose teaching and training have produced such a fruit. " [ The Review of Religions (Urdu ed. ), Vol. V, p. 119]. Thus it would appear that there is a most extraordinary coincidence between the case of Maulawi Muhammad Ali and that of Maulawi Muhammad Husain of Batala. Bold indeed must be the man who can say that such a coincidence was there without a Divine purpose. The hand of God can clearly be seen at work behind the two conjunctions of circumstances. "A sufficient matter for reflection for any one who will reflect. " In short, it is incorrect to say that it was from M. Zahiruddin that I first derived this belief in the prophethood of the Promised Messiah as. The facts are that some five years before the publication of M.