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( 25 ) prophethood, has terminated and there will be no prophet after me. ” (Truth Triumphs 10, 11) The Promised Messiah’s Commentary has already been reproduced. It is much to be regretted that there was a time when non-Ahmadies used to quote this Hadith in the lifetime of the Promised Messiah, in refutation of his claim. But the time has come when our friends of the Lahore Section have started to follow in the footsteps of the Non-Ahmadies, in this behalf. The reply of the Promised Messiah used to be that it was highly unfortunate, highly deplorable, that all the Muslims could look forward towards the appearance of liars and Dajjals alone; nothing better at any time; not one single true reformer to look after the people associated with the exalted name of the Prophet of Arabia. Here is what he wrote in one place: “They say in Hadith, the appearance of 30 Dajjals among the Muslims, has been foretold by the master, that they should altogether obliterate the followers of the Prophet Mohammad. How strange! Poor, ignorant people! Do you suppose this Ummat is so unfortunate, and ill-omened, that it can expect the advent of as many as thirty Dajjals to mislead it, but not one single Mojaddid to break the Cross. For the earlier Ummats there have been unbroken chains of reformers and Prophets; but when it came to the turn of this Ummat , what fell to its share was no more than a prophecy that as many as 30 Dajjals would appear, to mislead the Muslims at a time of their greatest and direst need!” ( Nazulul Masih , page 33) Seeing that the word used in the quotation given above is Mojaddid alone, let no one misjudge that the Promised Messiah was only a Mojaddid , a reformer; no more than that, since in the same book he has also clarified the situation by writing: “I am an Apostle, and a Nabi , i. e. , from the point of view of zilliyat , I am a perfect mirror, which reflects an image of the Holy Prophet Mohammad alone a reflection alive and full. ” ( Nazulul Masih , page 3) Further, in the same book, he writes: “To make a comparison complete between the two chains (one of Moses, the other of Mohammad – author) it was essential that as against the Messiah of the chain of Moses, the Messiah of the Mohammadi chain should also be in the position of a Prophet, so that no slight be involved to the position of the Nabuwwat of Mohammad, Allah created my person, and my mission, in a perfect zilliyat , vesting me with a perfect image of the Nabuwwat of the Holy Prophet Mohammad, that in one respect the expression ‘Prophet of God’ should be applicable to me, and in the other respect Khatm-i-Nabuwwat should remain uninjured in its meaning. ” ( Nazulul Masih , page 4)