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felt impelled by a righteous sense of conviction, and said in the glory of his faith :- • "Some half-learned persons, deriding at me, point out that our Holy Prophet (May blessings of Allah be on him) has predicted the advent of thirty impostors who will all claim to be prophets, 0 ye ignorant unfortunates. Were thirty impostors only to be destined for you and no true reformer was ordained ? A quarter of the Hth century has well nigh passed, and the moon of Caliphate has covered the fourteen stages of its perfection, as hints the verse ' Jj~ UJ-li _,. ijl. J ' (and we have fixed stages for the moon) and the cycle of the world is nearing the end, but your impost- ors do not end. Perhaps they will stick to you till your demise. 0 ye ill-informed, the impostor who is termed satan resides within you and so you know not the times and see not the signs of hea v. - en. But I blame you not, for the one, who came like me in the Hth century after Moses, was call. ed "Impostor" by the impious Jews. •~l!:i "="'-'l. i. lli• ,. . . . JI ~ I Hearts have certainly become alike. Have mercy O Lord ! " \Vhat pathos and sincerity underlies these utterances. The long-suppressed feelings of pain over the misfortune of his people have suddenly burst forth. It is a pity indeed that those who made li~ht of (his weighty claims) did not turn sober. Those who had rejected did not turn believers, Those who slumbered stirred not out of their sleep and the bark of the nation, floundered, from one whirl, pool to another. Briefly speaking, the tradition relating to thirty impostors predicts the appearance of thirty false claimants and does not preclude the advent of a 115