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as a line of Successors was established among the followers of. Moses but thinks that (God forbid) He has not fulfilled that promise, and there is no Khalifa at present among the followers of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be on him. . Not only this, but such a one will also have to adopt the position that (God forbid) it is not true, as the Holy Quran has said, that the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was a Prophet like Moses, inasmuch as for a perfect resemblance between Moses and the Holy Prophet, it was necessary that at the beginning of the fourteenth century of. Islam there should have appeared among the Muslims a Messiah in the same way as in the Mosaic dispensation there came a. Messiah in the fourteenth century after Moses. Further, he who denies me would also have to deny the verse of the Holy. Quran: And among others from among them who have not yet joined them (62:4) which prophesies the advent of a reflection of Ahmad in the latter days. In the same way there are many verses of the Holy Quran which such a one will have to deny. I go further and claim that he who denies me will have to repudiate the whole of the Holy Quran from beginning to end. . Consider, therefore, whether my denial is an easy matter. I do not say on my own authority but call God Almighty to witness that the truth is that he who forsakes me and denies me, even if he does so only by his conduct and not by his tongue, rejects the whole of the Holy Quran and forsakes God. (Alhakam, 17th March, 1906; quoted from Truth about Ahmadiyyat, by. Imam B. A. Rafiq. ). Says God in the Quran, 69:45 (A. J. Arberry translation): Had he (the Holy Prophet or anyone else) invented against Us any saying, We would have seized him by the right hand, then We would surely have cut his life-vein and not one of you could have defended him. . May Allah guide those who read these pages. 30th December, 1980. FAIZUR RASUL 29 Lea House, Woodview Drive, Birmingham B15 2HE 34