1. In another book written less than a year before Ayk Ghalati Ka Izala, he quotes these revelations under the heading "Those Divine revelations which I have been honoured with, recorded in Barahin Ahmadiyya," and then writes in a footnote:

"At this place, the words rasul and nabi which have been used about me in the Divine revelation, i.e., he is a rasul and nabi of God, this application is metaphorical and figurative." (Arba'in No. 3, December 1900, footnote, p. 25)

2. Elsewhere, quoting one of the revelations given here, "The messenger of God in the mantle of the prophets", he writes in a footnote:

"These words are by way of metaphor, just as in Hadith also the word nabi has been used for the Promised Messiah. It is obvious that he who is sent by God is His envoy, and an envoy is called rasul in Arabic. And he who discloses news of the unseen received from God is called nabi in Arabic. The meanings in Islamic terminology are different. At this place, only the linguistic meaning is intended." (Arba'in, No. 2, September 1900, footnote, p. 18)

He further adds here:

"Maulvi Muhammad Husain Batalvi mentioned all these places in his review [of Barahin Ahmadiyya] and raised no objection against it. In fact, for twenty years all the ulama in Punjab and throughout India have been reading these revelations in Barahin Ahmadiyya and accepting them, and none has objected except two or three maulvis of Ludhiana who have no understanding."

The Muslim Ulama who opposed Hazrat Mirza, especially his leading opponent named here, had not raised any objections against the occurrence of the words nabi and rasul in his revelations (particularly when these were first published) because they knew that revelations of Muslim saints could include such terms in a metaphorical sense.

3. He writes:

"By rusul [plural of rasul] are meant 'those who are sent', whether such a one is a rasul or a nabi or a muhaddas. As our Master and Messenger, the Holy Prophet Muhammad, is the Khatam al-anbiya, and after him there cannot come any prophet, for this reason saints (muhaddas) have been substituted for prophets in this religious system." (Shahadat al-Quran, September 1893, p. 23)

Thus the word rasul applies to non-prophets as well, and after the Holy Prophet Muhammad any Muslim to whom this word applies is a saint (muhaddas) and not a prophet.

4. In his famous book Haqiqat al-Wahy, published only a year before his death, he writes:

"I have been called nabi by Allah by way of metaphor, not by way of reality." (Haqiqat al-Wahy, May 1907, Appendix, p. 64)