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85 Nabi has opened for us and grant them the grace to recognise the same. " Thus, at a time when the death of the Promised Messiah as had thrown the whole Ahmadiyya Community into a spasm of grief, the fact that I repeatedly called him a Nabi while Khalifatul Masih I ra , Maulawi Muhammad Ali himself, and all the other members of the Community raised not a voice against my action, rather on the contrary, they looked upon it with approving eyes conclusively proves that it was at that time, not only my own conviction but a conviction of the Community as a whole that the Promised Messiah as was a Nabi. Similarly, on the occasion of the Annual Conference of the year held in April 1909, the speech delivered by me contained the following words. This speech was published both in The Badr and in the Tashhidhul Adhhan. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra , was in the chair, I said: "This Divine promise was not made to us in order that we might believe in the death of Jesus as ; rather, God promised to us through His Rasul , the Promised Messiah as that if we should make a purchase similar to what was made by the previous people, then we too should receive a similar favoured treatment" ( Tashhidhul Adhhan , February 1909, p.