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'lade whereby what should have been Asm'aa wa Araa became (SN) Asm'aa Wa'lade. . This unfortunate error in the columns of Al Bushra was immediately detected and the editor of the journal took necessary steps to publish a correction in its following issue. He also sent a notice to the official journal of the Ahmadiyya. Muslim Community at Qadian to the effect: 'In line 10 of page 49 of Al Bushra. vol. 1, the revelation of the. Promised Messiah Asm'aa wa Araa has been incorrectly written as Asm'aa Wa'lade. It is regretted that so far none of our friends was able to point out this error and I am indeed grateful to a kind friend for drawing my attention to it. When compared with the original copy, it was found that the correct revelation was Asm'aa wa Araa. All those friends who possess a copy of this issue of Al Bushra may kindly make the necessary correction. ' 1 31. It may not be unreasonable to state that during the course of any publication either the author or the copyist is extremely likely to commit some genuine errors which despite proof reading and revision may sometimes not be detected until after the material has been printed. Such mistakes have appeared in the best of publications and neither the Ahmadiyya Muslim. Community nor its adversaries can claim immunity to such misprints. One, for instance, observes that Abdul Hafeez's spiritual preceptor Ehsan Elahi Zaheer claims Hadhrat Ali ibn. Talib to be God Almighty in one such printing error. 32 Would it then be fair to assert that in the opinion of Abdul Hafeez's spiritual preceptors, Hadhrat Alira is God forbid, God Almighty?. As regards the other two citations, 'You are, of Me, like My son' and 'You are, of Me, like My offspring', had these antagonists exercised similar honesty which some of their colleagues have inadvertently done in the translation of these revelations, they 31. Al Fazl, vol. 9, p. 96 32. Zaheer, Ehsan Elahi. Qadiyaniat, ed. 1984, p. 21 69