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( 2 ) make low personal attacks against the son of a gentleman whom Mr. Faruqi believes to be the Promised Messiah, raised to deliver mankind especially the Muslims, from irreligion – from sin and evil. Similarly one also feels sorry for the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha’ati-Islam, responsible for bringing out a publication which so deeply, and so grievously injures our feelings. Two Misstatements by Mr. Faruqi In his Foreword, Mr. Faruqi has made two misstatements. He writes: “Hazrat Mirza Sahib repeatedly announced that taken Islamic parlance, ‘claim’ is not that of a Prophet, but is that of a Mojaddid, a nd Mohaddath (with whom God speaks). Up to the time of his death in 1908 C. E. , and during the Caliphate of his successor, Maulvi Noor-ud-Din Sahib, the followers and mureeds of Hazrat Mirza Sahib gave him his right position. However on the death of Maulvi Noor-ud-Din in 1914 Mirza Mahmud Ahmad (the son of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad) became Khalifa, when he advocated the newly established belief that Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah was in fact a Prophet and that any Muslim who denies him becomes a kafir himself. ” (Truth Triumphs, Foreword, page 3) First Misstatement The first misstatement made by Mr. Faruqi in this passage is that to the death of the Promised Messiah, and all through the period of Khilafat of Hazrat Maulvi Nuruddin, the Ahmadies did not hold that the Founder of the Movement was a Prophet. They regarded him a Mojaddid and a Mohaddath. Second Misstatement Mr. Faruqi has stated that the Promised Messiah’s son, Mirza Mahmud Ahmad, carved out a doctrine that the Promised Messiah was a Prophet, and one who denied him was a kafir after the death Hazrat Maulvi Nuruddin, the First Khalifa, in 1914. Naturally, one does not expect much good from a book which goes shockingly wrong in its facts, at the very outset. Proof that the First Statement given above is wrong The leader of the Lahore Section of Ahmadies, Maulvi Mohammad Ali, was appointed editor of the Review of Religions in 1901, in the lifetime of the Promised Messiah. At that time he himself also believed that the Promised Messiah was a Prophet, and this was the doctrine to which he invited others. But in the time of the first Khalifa, when the newspaper named Paigham-i- Sulha came into existence, in 1913, in regard to some people responsible for it, an impression grew in the mind of many observant people that they were