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varacity of which the fairminded, even among the non-Ahmady Ulama, have borne testimony. For instance, a famous Muslim scholar, of Indo-Pak renown, Allama Niaz. Fathehpuri, writes in his well known journal, 'Nigaar' : "Denial of the attainment of. Mirza Sahib in Arabic, on the part of the addressee, is most surprising. Perhaps you are not aware that even the learned people of. Arabia itself have conceded the astonishing excellence of his Arabic prose and poetry, even though he had not formally studied this language and literature in any school or institution and as far as I can see, ; this constitutes a powerful proof in favour of his God-given, natural and acquired attainments. (Nigaar, Lucknow, September 1961). I must add that in what has been said here in regard to the Arabic speaking countries, no slight is intended to the. Arab peoples, who, in the matter of 76