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3 and master, the most dearly beloved of his heart, than he did from Jesus. How beautifully has Hazrat Ahmad put this in his own words saying: "In my capacity as the Messiah,. I too would have had to see the Cross, if it had not been for the blessings of this name of Ahmad, depends everything having do with me!" upon which anything to (Braaheen-i-Ahmadiyya part V). He meant to say, although I have been sent down in the likeness of Jesus of Nazareth, who was nailed to the Cross by his enemies, the Jews, my proper rank and position really pertains to the niyaabat (deputyship) of. Muhammad, (peace and blessing of God be on him) on which basis dominance and success for me and my mission has been definitely ordained in the Divine Plan. . This circumstance amply explains why, according to the Christians, only after a brief period of his Ministry, extending to no more than three years, Jesus gave up the ghost, in great distress of soul, wailing, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani", whereas Allah guarded the Muhammadan. Messisah from all harm, and had him pass through the most favourable as well as the adverse conditions of life, so that the extraordinary brilliance of his moral worth and grandeur should have occasion to shine forth upon the world in full glory and Allah extended to him such an unparallelled success in his Mission, that, in the words of a well known non-Ahmadi journal of Delhi, friend and foe alike exclaimed: "The most excellent services rendered to. Islam by the late Mirza Sahib, against the onslaughts of the Araya Smaajists and the. Christians, are in fact most praiseworthy. . He gave an absolutely new turn to. Controversy in the field of religion, laying the foundation of a new literature. Not in our capacity as a Muslim, but of a seeker after Truth, we freely concede that