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Part II – My Life as a Muslim 71 been trying to become a member of that church for the last 50 years and they haven’t accepted me as a member!” Dr. Muft i Sa diq ra relates that a Jew came to Qadian and was a cloth merchant. Dr. Muft i s a hib took him to see the Promised Messiah as. The Jew was shown the picture of the tomb of Jesus as and was asked if this is the way a Jewish tomb looked. The Jew answered, “Just as that. ” Muft i s a hib wrote this in Hebrew in the Promised Messiah’s book “Kisht ī N ū h” [“Noah’s Ark”]. Dr. Muft i s a hib told me that if I see this Hebrew script, it was first written by him [Muft i s a hib]. 22 OCTOBER 25, 1950 Hazrat Khal ī fat-ul-Mas ī h saw me on the way to the Mosque for saying Zuhr prayer. He said, “Mr. Rashid, you failed in the exam. ” Hearing this I said, “Only in Arabic. ” 22 In reference to the importance the Promised Messiah as attributed to the Hebrew language, H. D. Griswold wrote the following on page 22 of his tract entitled Mirza Ghulam Ahmad The Mehdi Messiah of Qadian : “The educational work under the care of the Ahmadiyyah movement is still in its infancy, there is a school at Qadian, with primary, Middle and High school department, where the sons of Mirza Sahib’s followers may receive instruction. A noticeable feature of the school is the encouragement given to the study of Hebrew. Two candidates for the Entrance Examination appeared last year from his school, with Hebrew as one of their subjects, and one of the two passed in it. So far as I know, the first attempt to acquire a knowledge of Hebrew on the part of Indian Muhammadans has been among the followers of the prophet of Qadian. ” Published by the American Tract Society: Ludhiana, India; 1902. [Writer]