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that time, bring ing up such a mis tak en idea regard ing
him self will dam age the truth and may cause cer tain
pol i ti cians unease, harm the pub li ca tion of the Treatise
of Light and mean that the trea tise enjoys only half a
vic to ry over the deniers. Bediuzzaman says that hold -
ing such an erro ne ous view will lead to the vic to ry of
"what is prob a bly the truth" and thus to the mis di rec tion
of the peo ple of faith; as a result of this uncer tain ty, this
will pre vent Muslims from being able to rec og nise the
true Mahdi.
With the terms he also employs here, Bediuzzaman
has many times reit er at ed that he is not the Mahdi. For
exam ple, he does not say, "I have per formed the
Mahdi's three tasks at the same time." Note that he
says that he has only led the way for the Mahdi in the
first of the Mahdi's duties, that of regard ing the truths
of faith, and that he has only per formed this in one way.
By say ing "it will be wrong … to give the name of that
per son age who will come in the future," he is stat ing
that it will be wrong for him to be given this name
although he is not the Mahdi and that this will dam age
the truth, for which rea son the name of Mahdi should
be given, not to him, but to that indi vid u al who will come
in the future. Regarding him self, he says that he may
be referred to as a reform er and "the pre cur sor" of the
Mahdi.
In addi tion to all this, as we know, the date given by

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