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Lofty and Pious has increased your piety over and above your family. From now on, the mention of your family would cease and God will lay the foundation of a beginning with you. '65. In Haqeeqatul Wahi also, from whence Abdul Hafeez has extensively quoted Hadhrat Ahmadas, he recorded a revelation to the effect: 'He will cut off thy ancestors and will begin thine family with thee. 166. Hence, the material decline which Hadhrat Ahmad'sas ancestral family witnessed was a decree of God to blot out the name of his ancestors and lay the foundation of a new family beginning with Hadhrat Ahmad as himself. And, this family with the grace of Allah has now enlarged and prospered to the extent that the jealousy of people like Abdul Hafeez incites them to write such grotesque publications as Two in One against it. . Abdul Hafeez furnishes his next evidence of the material decline of Hadhrat Ahmad's as family from his son, Hadhrat. Mirza Bashir Ahmad's book, Seerat al Mahdi in which its author is stated to have declared that: 'The British confiscated our family lands and fixed honorary [sic] pension of Rs. 700/- only per year in the form of cash which was reduced to 180/- only at the death of my grandfather and stopped completely after my uncle's [Father's elder brother] death. 167. In the first instance, this citation by the author of Two in One from Hadhrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad's Seerat al Mahdi proves. Abdul Hafeez to be a liar in so much that he complains that. Ahmadi Muslims have, despite repeated requests refused to 65. Ahmad, [Hadhrat] Mirza Ghulam. Kitabul Bariyyah, p, 161; Ruhani Khazain, vol. 13, p. 179 66. Ibid. Haqeeqatul Wahi, p. 76, Ruhani Khazain, vol. 22, p. 79 67. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One, p. 9 136