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suggest that they are liars or even capable of lying. One is certain that every sincere human being would acknowledge that it is one thing to state that a person is subject to a perfectly innocent and acceptable human error and another to state that one has committed a totally unacceptable sin of uttering a lie or falsehood. But such an acknowledgement can only be expected of sincere and honest people and not people who possess the nature of Abdul Hafeez and the likes of him. . The recorded history of religion indicates that prophets of God have, on occasions, been subject to understanding differently, the true purport of His divine will revealed unto them. The. Quran indicates that Hadhrat Noahas had misunderstood God. Almighty's promise of security in favour of his progeny³ and so had Hadhrat Jonahas made such an error in understanding the true purport of God's divine will vouchsafed unto him in relation to the destruction of the people of Nineveh. 40 Is Abdul. Hafeez prepared to assert that these facts recorded by the noble. Quran in relation to Hadhrat Noah's as and Hadhrat Jonah's as misunderstanding of the true purport of these revelations vouchsafed unto them are, God forbid, not correct? If not, then what error has Hadhrat Ahmadas committed in merely acknowledging the truth that prophets of God are also subject to commit an error in the true comprehension of the revelations vouchsafed unto them? 6. In his sixth allegation, the author of Two in One accuses. Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas of stating that, God forbid, 'Hadhrat Muhammad's revelations also proved to be incorrect 41 while Hadhrat Ahmadas did not, at any stage in his life, ever make any such statement which even remotely suspected the truth of the revelations vouchsafed unto his noble master, the Holy Prophet of Islams. This false charge by Abdul. Hafeez is based upon the manipulation of a passage in Izalah. Auham in which its author alluded to Hadhrat Muhammad's sa vision in which he beheld that he had entered the holy 39. Al Quran 11. 46/7 40. Ibid. , 21. 88 41. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez, Two in One, p. 50 320