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192 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad efforts that they become ill and frail like victims of tuberculosis. Therefore, to pass the examination of righteousness, prepare yourself to bear any and all hard- ship. When a person advances on this path, Satan wages powerful and fierce onslaughts, but at one point, Satan finally stops. This is when a death overtakes a person’s base life and they begin to rest under the shade of God. Such a person is a manifestation of the Divine and a vicegerent of Allah. A brief summary of my teaching is that one should devote all of one’s strengths to God. ” The Fatherless Birth of the Messiah as There was discussion on the fatherless birth of the Messiah as. The Promised Messiah as said: “It is my faith and belief that the Messiah, peace be upon him, was born without a father. All powers belong to Allah the Exalted. Naturalists who assert that he had a father are gravely mistaken. The God of such people is a dead god and the prayers of such people are not accepted. 1 Anyone who believes that Allah the Exalted cannot cause someone to be born without a father, I consider them to be outside the pale of Islam. The fact of the matter is that Allah the Exalted desired to show the children of Israel that they had degenerated to such a worthless state that now there was no one from among them who was able to become a Prophet, or anyone even from whose progeny someone could become a Prophet. For this reason, Allah the Exalted caused the final Caliph of the Mosaic dispensation to be born without a father. In doing so, Allah made clear that their family would no longer be the custodians of the divine law. So too in the present age God Almighty has established this dispensa- tion and raised the final Caliph of Muhammad sa , i. e. the Mahdi and the Messiah, not from among the Syeds, but from a people of Persian descent, so that this serves as a sign to show the state of the righteousness of those who claim to be the custodians of the prophethood of Muhammad sa. ” The Promised Messiah as said: “The way of Prophets is that their plans are never directed to specific individuals; in fact, they always pursue the ultimate objective. Wherever endeavours are limited to individuals, there can be no real success. As such, this is what happened to Jesus, peace be upon him. ” 1 Perhaps on account of the fact that Naturalists view God as one who is weak, and in fact dead, they reject the concept of prayer and the acceptance of prayer as well. (Siraj-ul-Haqq Nu’mani) p. 174