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words of Bediuzzaman him self, but of those who inter -
pret those words accord ing to their own knowl edge and
under stand ing. The ques tion of the dam ag ing effect
that such a logic could have on the Collection, writ ten
by Bediuzzaman in such a com pact and sin cere style,
is one call ing for care ful con sid er a tion.

Bediuzzaman has told, with full sup port ing
evi dence, those who imag ine him to be the
Mahdi that he is not the Mahdi
A num ber of ques tions were direct ed towards
Bediuzzaman in his own day from his dis ci ples and
those around him regard ing wheth er or not he was the
Mahdi. In fact, sim i lar ques tions had been put to other
reviv ers (mujad dids) before Bediuzzaman, and their fol -
low ers claimed that these peo ple were the Mahdi. They
also told their stu dents, with proof, that they were not
the Mahdi, and that their attrib utes were incom pat i ble
with his. They gave detailed descrip tions of when and
where the Mahdi would appear, the kind of fea tures he
would pos sess, his strug gle, and how he would cause
Islamic moral val ues to pre vail. They made state ments,
in the light of the had iths of our Prophet (saas), along the
lines of "I am not the Mahdi, because the Mahdi will be
aged such and such, appear from such and such a
place, pos sess such and such fea tures, and be a say -
y id."

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