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xxviii Quran and the true A ha d i th and the working of which is observable through personal experience. The age of the Promised Messiah has this special characteristic that in the ancient scriptures and A ha d i th it is recorded that at the time of his advent, this spread of spirituality will reach a degree in which women will also receive revelation, and minor children will be able to prophesy, and the common people will speak with the power of the Holy Spirit. All this will be a manifestation of the spirituality of the Promised Messiah. ( D ar u ratul- Im a m , pp. 4-5, R uha n i Khaz a’ in , vol. 13, pp. 474-475) \ n the long history of human affairs, no one has ever wielded his pen so forcefully, so powerfully and so relentlessly in defence of his faith as the spiritual son of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa that is Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah as. He unlocked fathomless treasures of knowledge, the treasures that had lain hidden for centuries. The Promised Messiah as went about distributing the wealth of knowledge freely, generously and abundantly. Millions of words flowed from his pen, his writings occupy thousands of pages bound in ninety-one books. Hundreds of posters, leaflets, tracts and handbills issued by him went to nail the lie or to challenge the enemies of Islam. The Promised Messiah as , the illustrious spiritual son of Mu h ammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, is the one who employed his pen with a thrust of a sword or rapier. Prayer is an instrument common to all the prophets, but the distinction of wielding the pen belonged to the great spiritual son of the Holy Prophet sa. The Promised Messiah as attributes all this power and eloquence to his mentor and master, and he drank deep from his fountain of knowledge. His medium of expression was Urdu, Arabic and Persian, although because of his meagre education, he could not claim perfection in either. Urdu was the proud language of Delhi and Lucknow and the Promised Messiah as hailed from a place like Qadian, which, at that time, was only a village lying far-flung from the ramparts