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to him was: Champion of God in the mantles of all the Prophets. . He was, however, at pains to emphasise all the time and on every occasion that whatever God Almighty had bestowed upon him, out of His grace, was in consequence of his utter devotion and obedience to the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and that in himself he was nothing and claimed no merit. He was thus a perfect spiritual reflection of the Holy. Prophet and in him was fulfilled the Second Advent of the Holy. Prophet promised in 62:4 (the Quran). (Quoted from Ahmadiyyat, the Renaissance of Islam, by Muhammad Zafrulla Khan. ). The Promised Messiah, peace be on him, has said:. If I am called Nabi or Rasul by God, how can I deny it? These titles have been applied to me by God Himself. How can I fail to use them? Why should I fear anyone but Him? I say on oath in the name of God Who has sent me, to fabricate anything in. Whose name is to earn His curse-that He has sent me after making me the Promised Messiah, that I have full faith in the manifest revelation vouchsafed to me, the truth of which has become established for me by sign after sign. My faith in it is as firm as is my faith in the verses of the Holy Quran. There is no difference, not the slightest. I am ready to stand in the House of God and declare on oath that God Who speaks to me is the same God Who spoke to Moses, to Jesus and to the Holy. Prophet Muhammad the Elect (on whom be peace). Earthly signs have witnessed to my truth as well as heavenly signs. . Heaven has witnessed for me as well as the earth. Both have declared that I am the Promised Vicegerent. I was to be rejected also, according to the prophecies. Those whose hearts are shrouded by prejudice do not accept. But I know God will help me the way He has always helped His Messengers. My opponents shall fail. They have not the help of God. . Remember wherever I have denied being a prophet (Nabuwat). I have denied it in the sense that I am no independent bearer of a Law or Shariah nor am I an independent prophet, a prophet in my own right. But in the sense that I have received spiritual 32