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•to be employed at times as a corrective. Our readers should therefore set aside the harshness of tone and see the underlying spirit and the good motive behind them. However, whether people in this age of darkness which has affected Muslims and non- Muslims alike, are vocal in their demand for or their pitiable condition is sending forth an appeal, they all join in the c11 II of times for ·a reformer from Heaven, a Master-reformer gifted with prophetic wisdom. Even Maulana Abulala Maududi who is at present leading the opposition front against us, observes: "'Most people are in search of such a perfect man for the rehabilitation of faith as would be an embodiment of the idealistic perfect- ness of all and sundry and should be sound in all respects. Though they orally reiterate faith in ~. H ~::;. (Khatim-e-nabuwat) ·and if anybody hints at continuation of prophet. hood, they would at once pull his tongue out of its root, but in their heart of hearts, they demand a prophet and would not accept anything short of a prophet. I Leaving aside therefore the evidence of the Quran, the Hadith a~d the pronounc;ements of early Divines, the times and the inner voice of mankind, call for a prophet in our age. Hazrat Promised Messiah (Allah bless him) said so aptly l. Tarjamanul Quran. , Dec. and Jan. 42-43 P 4fJ,6 149