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( 42 ) agreed upon by all the Prophets. ” ( Al-Wasiyyat , page 16, edition Nazarat Maqbara Bahishti , Rabwah) According to this definition of Nabuwwat , in Al-Wasiyyat on which all Prophets agree, the Promised Messiah calls himself a Nabi. Further, in the same period, in his Lecture entitled Hujjatulla , he said: “Receiving word from God, such as contains knowledge of things unknown, and embraces prophecies remarkable in grandeur, the man who communicates this word to mankind, in Islamic terminology, is called a Nabi. ” (Lecture entitled Hujjatullah, Alhakm , May 6, 1905) According to this definition, we now find that the Promised Messiah calls himself a Nabi , in a phraseology which he calls Islamic terminology. Again, in the same period, while addressing his opponents, he wrote: “The content, which you call ‘ mokalma mokhataba’ (precise, definitive communion) amplitude and abundance of the same, under mandate from the Lord God, I designate as Nabuwwat. Wa likullin an yastaliha. ” ( Tatimma Haqiqatul Wahyi , page 68) In this passage we find he called himself a Nabi , under an instruction from God, in a terminology coming from the same source. In the same period we again find him writing: “The word Nabuwwat and Risalat , in His Wahyi vouchsafed to me, Allah has used hundreds of times in regard to me. But this expression is intended to be applied to an amplitude of communion embracing knowledge of things beyond the ken of man. Nothing more than that. Evidently, all of us are entitled, in our talk to use a terminology we favour; and this is a terminology of God, that an abundance of knowledge given by Him in regard to things in the future beyond the reach of man, he calls Nabuwwat. ” In Haqiqatul Wahyi , pages 390 and 391, in the light of the Quranic verse: “He does not reveal things pertaining to spheres of the Unknown, to any human being, except that He be pleased to communicate it to an Apostle of His own”, while giving the meaning of Nabi and Rasul , the Promised Messiah wrote further: “Allah does not grant anyone a full power and dominance on matters pertaining to the Unknown obtainable on the basis of amplitude and clarity, except in the case of His own chosen one, His own Apostle; and it is a thing proven and well established that the amplitude and abundance of communion granted to me; and the volume of knowledge in regard to the Unknown He has bestowed on me, in the last thirteen hundred years He has not granted to anyone else. If there be anyone who desires to deny this, the burden of proof lies on him.