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36 be called a Nabi , what other distinctive word is there which will distinguish me from other recipients of Divine revelation?" (Vide Diary published in The Badr , dated the 5th March 1908). Similarly in Eik Ghalati Ka Izala he writes: "Remember this for certain that for this Umma (followers of Muhammad sa ) it is promised that, they will be awarded all those favours which were ever granted to any Nabi or Siddiq. Among these favours were prophecies and predictions, in view of which the former Prophets were called Ambiya ’. "In other words, the Promised Messiah as says to his opponents that he was not a Nabi in the sense they ascribed to that word, but he was a Nabi in the sense of the word in which the former Prophets were called Ambiya ’. This answer of the Promised Messiah as , it may again be seen, is quite analogous to that made by Jesus as , viz. that, he was god in the sense in which the former Prophets were called gods. This is obviously the sense of Jesus’ as answer as has been admitted by Maulawi Muhammad Ali himself in the following words: "Jesus as applied to himself the words 'son of God' in the same sense in which others before him were called gods". ( The Split , page 6. ) Such being the views of Jesus as , it necessarily followed that those followers of Jesus as who called