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( 93 ) prophecies had come to be fulfilled; and on this basis he made the claim that he was the Muslih Mau’ud we have been expecting. ” Here we cannot refrain from saying it is highly regrettable that Maulvi Abdul Mannan Umar did not advise Mr. Faruqi not to take up his pen on this question, to falsify the verdict given by his own father, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih I. Mojaddid- i- Ahmadiyyat It is rather strange to note that in dedicating his ‘Truth Triumphs’ to Maulvi Mohammad Ali, he has written: DEDICATION To Hazrat Maulana Mohammad Ali who can rightly be called the Mojaddid of Ahmadiyyat. As against this, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih I, called the Mojaddid of Ahmadiyyat , Manifester of the Second power and glory of God, giving us to hope that after thirty years from that time the prophecy shall come to be fulfilled. This prophecy has been fulfilled in 1944 when Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II claimed to be the Muslih Mau’ud. Mr. Faruqi concedes that in the declaration that he is the Muslih Mau’ud , Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II had said he was not a Mamur (Truth Triumphs, page 37). This is exactly what Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II said in 1961, when some one asked a question: “Where the fact is conveyed to a man that you are the Muslih Mau’ud , and the argument has been fully put before him, but he persists in denial, what shall we say to him, after that? Hazrat Khalifatul Masih replied: ‘We shall say nothing. Whenever Allah desires to do so, He will guide him. Persistence, and insistence on acceptance is not the task of one who is not a Mamur. ’” ( Al-Fazal , June 3, 1961) Mr. Faruqi, therefore, has no right to include the Muslih Mau’ud among the Mamurs , (i. e. , those appointed to a mission) and to test him on that criterion, by going into the question whether, or not, he lived for 23 years after he made public his claim. We might here also remind Mr. Faruqi that he has himself put forth a reference to Arba’in No. 3: “Thousands of Muslim savants and spiritual leaders have advanced this argument before the infidels, and no Christian or Jew has yet come forward to identify, or point out, one such person, who having fabricated a claim to be an ‘Appointee of Allah’ (as per prophecy), had then passed twenty three years of his remaining life. ” (Truth Triumphs, page 37)