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insight. This tradition is in point of. fact totally irrelevant to the claims of the Hazrat Promised Messiah. It must be borne in mind, in the first instance, in this connection, that, as the Holy Prophet ( peace be on him ) has by suffixing the expression •'=:J~I ~l. :. ~I cle'arly ·pointed out that th. is warning relates to only such claimants to propheihood as aanul the Muhammadan Law and cu,t through the term of Muhammad in dispensation and claim to have brought a new Law and a new religion. This tradition is clearly in no way applicable to the case of the Holy Founder _ of the Ahmadiyya Movement. Another point that must be noted is that in this tradition the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) confines himself to the statement that there will appear thirty impostors and liars who will claim to be prophets, he did not say that whoever claim- ed to be a prophet must be an impostor and a liar. There is a world t>f difference in these two assertions and no sensible person will declare these to be as synonymous. When the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) said that there shall rise among his followers thirty imposters and liars who will claim to be prophets, could he not in one brief sentence warn thllt whosoever from among his follo- wers claimed to be a prophet shall be an impostor and anti-Christ. It is a great pity indeed that vis- ions have become so blurred that a simple and plain statement is being so unjustly twisted and misconstrued. The Holy Prophet declares simply this "There shall appear thirty false prophets from among my followers. " But these words are being so guild- ed as to represent the statement that "whosoever claims to be a prophet shall be a liar and an im- postor. " Thie i~ a most bra~en-faced distortion of a· very clearly-worded tradi~ion. One can only com• 112