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( 39 ) could figuratively be called a ‘prophet. ’” (Truth Triumphs, pages 15- 16) The second quotation is from Izala-i-Auham , page 575 “Here some doubts assail the mind of the reader. When Jesus, son of Mary, at the time of his ‘coming’, would be one of the followers of the Holy Prophet Mohammad, how could he be a full-fledged Prophet as well, especially as Hazrat Mohammad is the last and final prophet! Albeit one from the followers of the Holy Prophet, who received communications from God, because of his spiritual attainments, can be considered (figuratively speaking) as a prophet whose other name is Mohaddath. Such persons are excluded from this restriction; as through their utter devotion to the Holy Prophet, they form a part of his ‘personality’ like a portion (of a thing) forms a part of the whole (thing). (Truth Triumphs, page 17-18) The third quotation on page 26 of Truth Triumphs is from Ishtiharat , Part 1, page 97: “I beg to inform my Muslim readers, that wherever in my books, Fath-i-Islam , Taudih-i-Maram , any such words are used that Mohaddath in one sense is a ‘prophet’ also, or that the rank of ‘ Muhaddath ’ implies a ‘partial prophethood’ or ‘incomplete prophethood’, then please understand that these words have not been used in their real sense, but only lexically or in a figurative sense. For God forbid, I do not claim to be a real and full-fledged prophet: but I mean that what I have written on page 137 of my book Izala-i-Auham that it is my faith that our Holy Prophet Mohammad is the last of the Prophets. So I request my brethren that if my use of these terms is repugnant to them, and has shocked them, then they may consider these ‘terms’ as if they have been amended by me and substitute the word ‘ Mohaddath ’ instead. For at no price will I cause disunity amongst the Muslims, since from the very beginning, as God is my witness, I intended from the use of the word ‘ Nabi ’ only Mohaddath and not a real prophet. For about Mohaddath our Holy Prophet has explained that it means ‘one with whom God speaks’ as the following tradition of his, as related by Abu Hurairah, makes it clear, (the wording of the Report being) “Verily before your time, amongst the Israelites there were such persons with whom God spoke, although they were not prophets. So amongst my followers if there is one such person he is Umar”. Without doubt, it appears from these passages that from the commencement of his claim, to a certain date, the Promised Messiah interpreted the word Nabi and Rasul , wherever in Ilhams and Revelations they occurred in regard to himself, as Mohaddath , part Prophet, or an incomplete Prophet, or that the word Nabi was applied to him in a figurative sense only