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( 127 ) Allah, he would not have held that he would be one of the sons he had been blessed with a stalwart of the Lord, endowed with the qualities of a Messiah (vide Tiryaqul Qolub , page 14). Instead, the Promised Messiah would have said that he would come in the 4th century, since his own period of Mamuriat extended to three centuries. Thus we find that the Ilham “Count this affair at the head of three centuries” only meant that the period of his own Mamuriat comprised a period of three hundred years – not that the advent of the Promised Muslih would take place after three hundred years, since, according to Allah’s promise, his birth was to take place within nine years. Conspiracies Against the First Khilafat In the eyes of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih I, as well, Qudrat-i-Thania meant the Institution of Khilafat in the Ahmadiyya Jama’at. During the period of his Khilafat an anonymous tract, “ Izharul Haq” , was published by someone in Lahore; it was widely distributed in various places. Following this, Babu Manzur Elahi, and Syed Inamullah Shah, manager of the Paigham-i-Sulha , expressed agreement with the views embodied in this tract; and in an open letter addressed to “Ansarullah”, held this organisation to blame. Naturally, then, the Ansarullah replied by bringing out a similar tract entitled Khilafat-i- Ahmadiyya. This tract was published on November 23, 1913. In the appendix of this tract we read: “If we fail to express our thanks to Hazrat Khalifatul Masih I, it would be the height of ingratitude on our part. In spite of his old age, and great pressure of his duties as head of the Movement, he read the MS of this tract then gave permission for it to be published with a kind promise of prayer in furtherance of the aim and purpose of the tract. ” In “ Izharul Haq ” the point was argued that Qudrat-i-Thania in Al- Wasiyyat could not mean the Institution of Khilafat, since the Khalifa, in any case, would be a human being, with a limited span of life, while the Promised Messiah had stated that the Qudrat-i-Thania would stay with the Jama’at for ever. One answer given in Khilafat-i-Ahmadiyya was that this expression stood for a chain of successive Khalifas, which was the interpretation given by the Promised Messiah himself. To support this view a quotation was given from Al-Wasiyyat , where the manifestation of two powers is mentioned, with a specific reference to Hazrat Abu Bakr, as an instance of how Qudrat-i-Thania worked after the death of the Holy Prophet, to promote the emergence of Hazrat Abu Bakr as the first Khalifa. And now we give the same answer to Mr. Faruqi, which Hazrat Khalifatul Masih I gave to the question in his clearance of the contents of “ Khilafat-i- Ahmadiyya” for publication. The basis of the objection in “ Izharul Haq” was that Qudrat-i-Thania had been visualised in Al-Wasiyyat as everlasting, while a Khalifa, being a human being had only a limited span of life. The answer