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vii past, present or future which are as yet unknown or forms of knowledge, whether scientific, historical, archaeological or otherwise, which have not yet come to light. In the following two essays, Hazrat Mirza Bashir- ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad ra draws on this criteria to show that like the prophets of the past, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi as received news of the unseen from God and these revelations which span across the entire prophetic spectrum found fulfilment at their appointed time. Among the prophecies he mentions are those relating to the future success promised to the Promised Messiah and his community, prophecies regarding natural disasters, particularly those relating to earthquakes, and Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s as foretelling of the death of John Alexander Dowie, an American evangelist who contemptuously challenged his claims. Mostly, however, Huzoor turns to the Promised Messiah’s as prophecies regarding the outbreak of the First World War and the subsequent fall of the Tsar of Russia and shows in intricate detail how each facet of these prophecies was fulfilled in absolute terms. These