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charged as list ed above, would belong to the Mahdi,
the reform er of the cen tu ry fol low ing his.
2. Bediuzzaman stat ed with full sup port ing evi -
dence that he was not the Mahdi, but that he
had no quar rel with peo ple who har boured
such mis con cep tions:
There were peo ple close to him in his day who held
mis con cep tions about Bediuzzaman being the Mahdi.
Indeed, Bediuzzaman added some men tions of these
atti tudes of his fol low ers to var i ous parts of his trea tis -
es.
However, as we know, pleas ing thoughts about a
per son are no proof that they actu al ly reflect the truth.
Bediuzzaman also stat ed this in his trea tis es, say ing:
"There may be peo ple who hold pleas ing ideas about
one; these have been around for a long time, that can -
not be denied, but they are in fact an error and a con -
fu sion." One extract in which Bediuzzaman sets this
out reads:
... They right ly per son al ly regard the spir it u al enti ty of
the Treatise of Light as a kind of Mahdi. Since they imag -
ine that this spir it u al enti ty has a rep re sent a tive, a spir -
it u al enti ty com ing from the stu dents of Light, and that
this spir it u al enti ty has a (do you mean the word "rep -
re sent a tive"??) who is a mere inter pret er, they some -
times give him that name (the Mahdi). This is, in fact, a
con fu sion and an error, but not one for which they are
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