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believed that after the suppression of the Bachcha·i•Saqqa r~:v6it, Nadir Khan would, in the first instance, be asked to 'invite Amanullah Khan to come back to his country, and if public feeling against some of his measures was found to be too strong, at least to a Prince of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan's family the Crown would be offered. But who could stand in the way of the fulfilment of Heaven's decision ? Who could deprive Nadir Khan of the throne that had been decreed in heaven (on. May 3, 1905) to be conferred upon him in recognition of his services to his motherland, especially when God had chosen him for that honoured station so that Amir Habib Ullah l{han's progeny ·should wander in wilderness living a miserable existence between life and death? How could Nadir Khan, Heaven'. s pr~de~tined nominee for the throne of Kabul, possibly be ig11ored, whe9 the time came for Afghanistan to choose its own monarch ? < At last. it came to pass exactly as was decreed long ago. That ·is to say, more than 25 years after the prophecy (r~ferred to above) Nadir Khan, for whom, six months. before tQ. ~re _was not the r€)motest possibility ever to acquire this yery exalted position, was unanimously elected by the- Afghan. people as their King and the arbiter of their destinies. In spite of the fact that he had no desire for the throne and in ·spite of the fact that he left the decision fully and completely in the hands of the Afghan people to choose their own Ruler, the lot fell upon him and he alone was considered fit to discharge friily and adequately the very high and critical responsibilities attached -fo the office of a king ; and who could, in reality, be co_nsidered fit for this very exalted position except he whom God had singled out for it ? , Nadir Khan Becomes Nadir Shah (8) But there was still one step left : it was for. Nad~r l{han to become Nadfr Shah. No doubt Afghanistan had now enjoyed full and complete independence. Its Amir had assumed the title of King and he was knowp and addressed as such. Indeed by virtue of being the ruler and monarch of this independent country Nadir Khan was a King in the real and full sense of the word. But in the word of God he was not designated as Shah Nadir Khan but as Nadir Shah. If Nadir Khan. had only assumed the title of Shah Nadir Khan, even then the prophecy, to all iQtents -arid:purp. oses, wo~ld ha~. e. been consid. ered. . by· every. san~. Q. Qd