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( 12 ) this belief when he left Qadian and moved to Lahore, he also abandoned some other beliefs as well, which the Promised Messiah had held firmly, to the time when he passed away from this world. Birth of Christ Formerly Maulvi Mohammad Ali had held that Hazrat Isa’s birth was from an Immaculate conception. When as editor of the Review of Religions, while answering some points raised by Padre Chatopadhiya, he wrote: “The birth of Jesus took place in a manner which has been held without a father, this being the reason why he was spoken of as the Word, since he did not come from the seed of any mortal man, from the seed of any human being, in the ordinary way among humans, for a female to conceive. His mother became pregnant following the word ‘BE’ from the Lord God, this being the reason why he has been called ‘the Word. ’” (Review of Religions, Vol. VII, No. 1, page 14) This was the view held by the Promised Messiah, who wrote in his book, Mowahibur Rahman , page 70: “It is included in our beliefs, that the birth of both Isa and Yahya was in an extraordinary manner; and there is nothing in it we might call remote from reason. Allah has referred, to the birth of both in one and the same Sura , that one should bear witness to the veracity of the other. ” In the same place, the Promised Messiah wrote further: “In the eyes of people gifted with discernment, there can be only two probabilities: Either we say that conception took place as a direct result of the Word spoken by the Lord God in regard to the matter. Or, God forbid, that he was a child born in sin; and we are saying this in conformity with the Quran, and the Injeel. So take care you do not come to lose the path of success, and the truth. ” Similarly, on May 5, 1904, on a question by someone, the Promised Messiah wrote: “On a perusal of the Holy Quran, this is what emerges as the truth, namely, that Jesus was fatherless; and this is a matter on which no question can come to lie. Where Allah calls this birth as resembling the birth of Adam, it is an indication that in this birth there is an element of an extraordinary process of nature, to which a reference had to be made, for an explanation, by likening it to the example of Adam. ” ( Badr , May 16, 1907, page 3) Again: “Our faith and belief is this that Jesus was born of no father, and Allah has the power to do all things. The rationalists, called Naturies