Note 35,36, 37 & 38

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Note 35.

Again, if prophethood of Muhammad remains limited to the Holy Prophet Muhammad then it is entirely wrong to say that the man Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was a prophet.

Note 36.

Again, by all prophets here are meant the real prophets, and therefore anyone known as 'prophet in the sense of burooz' is not in the category of all prophets.

Note 37.

As to what is meant by the Holy Prophet Muhammad coming into the world a "thousand times", read again a part of the quotation from Hazrat Mirza given earlier:

"...the spirituality of our Holy Prophet has always manifested itself at times when the internal crises of Islam became overwhelming, and the 'essence of Muhammad' has always made its appearance through some perfect follower. ... There have been hundreds of persons in whom the 'essence of Muhammad' was established, and with God they had the names 'Muhammad' and 'Ahmad' by way of reflection (zill)." (Ainah Kamalat Islam, February 1893, p. 346)

These hundreds of persons are clearly the saints of Islam, and it is their coming which referred to in Ayk Ghalati Ka Izala here as the Prophet Muhammad coming a thousand times. Hazrat Mirza is placing himself in the same category as these persons: they all had the names 'Muhammad' and 'Ahmad' in the sight of God, they were all zill and burooz. As they were not prophets, and the Qadianis do not consider them to be prophets, so also Hazrat Mirza was not a prophet.

Note 38.

Again, Hazrat Mirza affirms that Allah had told the Holy Prophet Muhammad that no prophet would come after him.