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12 In the same vision, it was also revealed to Ḥaḍrat Khwaja Nasir Andaleeb t hat a new spiritual order had been bestowed upon him, and he was informed in this vision by Ḥaḍrat Imam Hassan ra that this new spiritual order would be called T arīqah Mu h ammadiyya. 11 According to the details of this vision, the Holy Prophet s as had sen t Ḥaḍrat Imam Hassan ra as his emissary to Ḥaḍrat Khwaja Nasir Andaleeb ra , to convey to him a specially selected gift of spirituality and enlightenment, and was informed that this gift would commence with him and culminate in the Promised Mahdī as. The detai ls of this vision deserve to be examined in conjunction with another vision of another man of God, who appeared about two hundred years later - the Mahdī as. Two hundred years after this spiritual experience of Ḥaḍrat Khwaja Nasir Andaleeb, during the late hours on 27 October 1900, Ḥaḍrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as the Promised Mahdī had a heavenly vision in which he heard the voice of the Holy Prophet Muhammad s as addressing him in the following words: "At the fountainhead of Hassan ra " 12 It is for this reason that the Promised Messiah as speaks of himself as having been blessed at the spiritual fountainhead of Imam Hassan ra. T hese two visions , although two centuries apart, suggest that both Ḥaḍrat Nasir Andaleeb ra and the Promised Messiah as , had a common spirit ual affinity for the "Path of Hassan ra ". In Islamic m ysticism, Imam Hassan ra symbolizes “ peace and