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Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 20 a state of decline and the Christians continue to attack Islam with this very weapon of the life of the Messiah. Muslim progeny is falling prey to the Christians. I truthfully say that it is arguments such as these, which they put forth to the people so as to convert them. They are turning people away from Islam by quoting in schools and colleges the distinct qualities which the Muslims ascribe to Jesus in their ignorance. Therefore, God Almighty has desired that now the Muslims be warned. 1 Since, God has desired to make the Muslims vigilant, it is very important for the progress of Islam to emphasise the issue relating to the death of the Messiah and for the Muslims not to believe that the Messiah has ascended to heaven alive. Regrettably, I must say that my opponents, owing to their own misfortune, fail to understand this secret and raise a pointless clamour. If only these fools would realise that if we all laid stress on the death of Jesus as , the Christian faith would be no more. I proclaim with certainty that the life of Islam lies in this death. Ask the Christians themselves: if it is proved that the Messiah lives no more and has died, 1 Al-Hakam , Volume 10, No. 6, dated 17 February 1906, pp. 2-3