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Muslim ummah or else of Muslim scholars in relation to their spiritual mentors. One has to but read through the colossal. Islamic literature to gauge the extent of such pronouncements made by Muslim saints and scholars. Yet, one observes that whereas Hadhrat Ahmadas did not at any point in time claim to be God, numerous venerable saints and scholars of the ummah of Islam made a claim to be Him in Person or else were called. God by their followers and admirers. . One would now ask Abdul Hafeez as to what is his opinion in relation to all these aforementioned saints and scholars of Islam who claimed Divinity for themselves or attributed it to their spiritual predecessors? Does he consider them unstable and versatile enough to fit in any frame and would he similarly accuse them of suffering from hallucinations which assured them that they were God in heaven? Would he also condemn them as mad as he does Hadhrat Ahmadas although he made no such claim to Divinity as the aforementioned saints of the. Ummah did?25 Would he call these pronouncements of all the saints and scholars as their doldrums as he does in case of. Hadhrat Ahmad as who incidentally, unlike them, never made any such specific claim? 26 Would he caricature cartoons of all these sufis of the ummah, Hadhrat Ali ibn Talibra, Hadhrat Ja'far. Sadiq, Abu Yazid Bustamith, Hadhrat Sheikh Muhiy ud Din ibne Arabith, Hadhrat Sultan Bahuth, Hadhrat Abu al Hasan. Kharqani, Hadhrat Sheikh Farid ud Din Attarth, Hadhrat. Hussain ibn Mansur al Hallajth and Hadhrat Abu Bakr Shiblith who claimed to be God Almighty in some form or the other and include this in the future editions of his book Two in One. If not, then would he not prove himself to be a hypocrite? A liar. Abdul Hafeez has been already proved since it has been shown that Hadhrat Ahmadas did not, ever, claim divinity for himself and an enemy also he has proved himself to be by accusing. Hadhrat Ahmadas of a false charge. Why then should a hypocrite, a liar and an enemy of the righteous take exception to being branded a disbeliever? 25. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One, pp. 2/3 67 26. Ibid.