Intro
In english this book is translated as “The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam”. It’s written in Urdu and Arabic. It was written in 1892 and published in 1893 from the Riaz e Hind Press in Amritsar. MGA’s first attempt in Arabic prose was a chapter he appended to his book, A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam. This chapter contained an open challenge to anyone who could find faults in his God-given command of Arabic. The second part is in Arabic. The Arabic part of the book is named at-Tabligh. This is the first time that MGA and his team of writers wrote on Islam in Arabic.
The number of books that they wrote in Arabic continued to pile up till it crossed the figure of twenty. Interestingly, MGA writes about the Promised Son aka Musleh Maud as-if he hasn’t been written yet, he also named another as Bashir Ahmad in 1893. MGA’s team attached a supplement to this book, wherein the minutes of the proceedings of the Second Annual Jalsa held in Qadian on December 27-29, 1892, were given. A list of names of 327 Ahmadis who attended the Jalsa was published. MGA and his team of writers also discuss the Muhammadi Begum prophecy and the death of Ahmad Baig. This book was published in February of 1893, as indicated on the title page in the below. Ahmad Baig had died on September 30th, 1892. Muhammadi Begum had been married off on April 7th, 1892. Sir Syed is also mentioned by MGA in this book (see Dard). MGA also mentions Batalvi, and prays that Batalvi dies in 40 days, however, this failed miserably.
The second part is in Arabic, it is called At-Tabligh. This is the book wherein MGA calls his deniers as sons of prostitutes (Zurrayatul Baghaya), this was repeated in 1898 in Najmul Huda. In terms of the Quran, the word Baghaya was used in the Quran twice, once in 19:20 and once in 19:28. In both cases, these are loose women or it could be used as prostitutes. This quote was mentioned in 1935 in the famous “Khosla judgement” and again by Justice Coldstream as the Qadiani-Ahmadi’s wanted this word expunged from the records, which the judge refused to do. Even the ROR of March-1935 has a full explanation of this, it even mentions how K. L. Gauba wanted to take up a case vs. the Qadiani-Ahmadi’s. K. L. Gauba wanted to present a case to the Assembly wherein MGA and his insults towards Muslims would be evaluated, per the ROR, it was denied, the National League at Qadian gave an answer to the Zurrayatul Baghaya insult and claimed that the quote really meant, meant, “Children, followers and supporters”=Zurrayatul and Baghaya meant “Slave girls, immoral women and the advance guard of an army”. They go to allege that this quote meant “followers of the vanguard of the party which was out to crush the Ahmadiyya Movement”, or as “low and ill mannered people like the children of bondwomen”.
Per “Life of Ahmad” by Dard (see page 341), the number of copies produced was 1,400. It covered about 700 pages including a message of about 250 pages in Arabic and Persian addressed to the learned people of India, Arabia, Persia, Turkey, Egypt, Turkistan (central asia, which was under the Russian Government) and Afghanistan. This was added to the book at the suggestion which Maulawi Abdul Karim made to Ahmad on January 11th, 1893. Its price was fixed on August 10th, 1892, at R. 1 without postage but later, as the book grew in volume, it was fixed at Rs. 2 without postage.
The ROR of Oct-1913 contains an article entitled, “The Promised Messiah on the British Rule”, it contains a small english translation of “A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam“, by a man named Mr. Ghulam Ahmad Khan (M.A.) of Mianwali, wherein he was working as the headmaster, pages 517-524 are posted. 10+ pages of this book are quoted in the ROR of April-1914. In the Mar-Apr-1918 edition of the ROR, he is listed as a graduate of the Aligarh College (B.A.), and he translated a specific portion of “A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam” (“The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam”)(1892-1893) which referred to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. The Jan-Feb-1919 edition of the ROR has about 5 pages in english. 8 pages were also translated into english in the March-April-1919 edition of the ROR by Maulana Abdur Raheem Dard aka M. Rahim Bakhsh. 8 pages of this book was translated into english and published into the ROR of Dec-1921. The ROR of Dec-1939 posted many revelations of MGA. The Lahori-Ahmadi’s haver their own version herein.
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Aina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khazain, Vol. 5, pp. 86-87, footnote
https://www.alislam.org/articles/14-characteristics-of-angels/
“The All-Wise, Who chose the mediation of means for the physical development of man and created many physical mediators to influence the human body in diverse ways, the same One without associate, Whose works have unity and symmetry, chose that man’s spiritual development should also follow the system which has been adopted for his physical development so that the two systems, the external and the internal, and the physical and the spiritual, through their balance and harmony, should point to the One Creator, Who regulates everything by His will.”
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Aina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khazain, Vol. 5, page 112
MGA is responding to someone’s question about istikhara and his truth. MGA also claims that people get dreams about him being false because of their desires and that prophets even get satanic revelations due to their desires. MGA says that Jesus (as) had the Holy Spirit with him all the time, yet, he still made false prophecies such as the fig tree prophecy, which he didn’t know was fruitless. MGA also alleges that Muhammad (Saw) also errored in similar situations (naudhobillah).
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Aina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khazain, Vol. 5, page 115
MGA says that some people may get false dreams.
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Aina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khazain, Vol. 5, pp. 169-170, footnote
https://www.alislam.org/articles/14-characteristics-of-angels/
“[Angels] are wholly like the limbs of the Divine. All the designs of God Almighty are first reflected in their transparent mirrors. Through their mediation, the designs of God Almighty are implemented and spread throughout the whole of creation.”
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A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 5, pp. 41-42, Essence of Islam, Vol. 3, pages 203-204
“””When the Muslims of our time affirm the death of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and his burial on earth, and at the same time affirm that Jesus is still alive, they furnish the Christians with a written acknowledgement that Jesus possessed qualities different from those of the common man and also different from all the Prophets. If it were true that while the Best of Mankind (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), who appeared six hundred years after Jesus, died after a brief life thirteen hundred years ago, yet Jesus has not yet died, would it not prove that Jesus possesses qualities that are superhuman? Though the Muslim divines of these times formally reject every form of association of partners with God, yet they lend their full support to those who are guilty of such association. It is an outrage that while Allah the Glorious, in His Holy Word, proclaims the death of Jesus, these divines create countless
difficulties in the way of Islam by adhering to the notion that he is still alive. They acknowledge Jesus as ever living and self-subsisting in heaven, and affirm the death and burial upon earth of the Chief of the Prophets (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)! The Holy Qur’an records the testimony of Jesus to the effect:
Al-Saff, 61:7 [Publisher]
That is: ‘I give glad tidings of a Messenger who will come after me (i.e., after my death,) whose name will be Ahmad.’ Hence, if Jesus is still bodily alive, it follows that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) has not yet appeared on earth.””””
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A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 5, page 259
“”There was much theological discussion between the Sahaba, to the extent that, for example, Hazrat Ibn Abbas had a different opinion on as many as 50 matters… …but no one called each other a Kafir.”
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Ai’na-i-Kamalat-i-Islam, pa 286. It has also been reproduced by Qasim Ali Ahmadi in Tabligh-i-Risalat, Vol. 1, pp. I I 1–18.
“”””The Omnipotent and Omniscient God has asked me that I should seek the hand of the elder daughter of this man (Ahmad Beg); should tell him that good conduct and courtesy to be shown to him would depend on this (i.e. his acceptance of the marriage proposal) ; her marriage with me would be a source of blessing and a sign of mercy for her father; and that he would have his share in all those blessings and mercies which have been laid down in the leaflet dated 20 February 1886 but if he declines to marry her, then the girl would meet an extremely tragic end. The other person to whom she would be married would die within two and a half years after the day of wedding,’ and so would die the father of the girl within three years, and her household would be afflicted with discord and poverty and adversity, and during the intervening period the girl would encounter several events of unpleasant and grievous nature.””””[3]
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“People with evil thinking clearly have my prophecy to test my falsehood or truthfulness, there is no better test. Moreover, it is not just me prophesying before the fulfilment of the prophecy but I had propagated this prophecy to the likes of Imam Din, Nizam Din, the Arya of this area. Moreover, Lekhram Peshawari and hundreds of others know of this. Regarding that many years ago the prophecy was that a man named Ahmad Beg from our clan would die… For an intelligent man it is sufficient that when this girl (Muhammadi Begum) had not gone through puberty, this prophecy was 5 years ago. At that time the girl was 8 or 9 years old. If to think about this as being a fabrication of thinking is not absurd then what else is it? Peace be upon those who follow the guidance.”
(Yours Humbly Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian Zillah Gurdaspur, Punjab July 10, 1888)
“God Almighty saw my paternal cousins (chacha-zad bhai) and other close relatives that they are indulged in soul-crushing activities; drowned in ill innovations, and false beliefs […]. They deny the existence of Allah the Almighty and are always after creating mischief. […]” (Aina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khazain, Vol. 5, p. 288)
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Ibid., pp. 320-321
“The base of this prophecy was not to randomly ask for the hand of Mirza Ahmad Beg’s daughter, but to show a sign to my close relatives who had turned against Islam, and one of them had progressed so much in mischief as to openly hurl abuse at Allah the Almighty and the Messenger of Allah […] even mocking the Islamic modes of worship […].”
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A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 5, p. 330
“Know that the earth is stationary and does not move, and that the sun and other heavenly bodies revolve around it.”
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See Essence of Islam, Vol. 3, online english edition
A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 5, p. 332
Divine Permission for Mubahalah against Maulavis
“””In the early days I had thought that I was not at liberty to challenge Muslims to a Mubahalah, because Mubahalah involves calling down a curse on each other, and it is not permissible to call down a curse on a Muslim; but my opponents from among the Muslims persist in denouncing
me as a disbeliever, and, under the Islamic dispensation, he who denounces a true Muslim as a disbeliever himself becomes the subject of such denunciation. I have, therefore, been commanded to challenge to a Mubahalah those who denounce me as disbeliever and
possess sons and daughters and are the originators of the denunciations directed at me.”””
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Page 353 of A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam
MGA says that ever word of a prophet is wahi and he received wahi in every moment but sometimes Satan messes it up and makes him do an ijtihadi mistake which also counts as Wahi, and thus prophets make mistakes in Wahi (MGA). MGA claims that people see false dreams about him are because of their desires, but then you might ask, then why should we believe in dreams as sign? MGA then says that true dreams are pure and have holy qualities in them and glad tidings.
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A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, page-376, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 5, page 376
MGA claims that the Muhammadi Begum prophecy is a sign for Muslims, just as the Abdullah Athim prophecy is a sign for Christians and just like the Lekh Ram prophecy is for Hindus.
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ain e kalimat e Islam, ruhaani khazain vol 5 page 392
Mirza Qadiani writes that people go for small hajj or Nafli hajj but this place meaning Qadian has more reward than a Nafli hajj.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________Aina Kamalat e Islam Dafiul wasawis page 418-419
“””ON 7 December 1894, I saw a dream that I have become Hazrat Ali KaramAllah wajhu and come to know that I am him.it is the wonders of dream that a man adopts the person of another one. So at that point of time I thought myself to be Ali Almurtaza. The situation I was in, is that a group of Kharijis, is resisting in to my Khilafat. Meaning thereby that this group wants to stop my Khilafat and creating insurgency against me. Then I see holy prophet peace be upon him saying to me Ya Ali keep away from them and their farms.”””
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_____________________________________________________________________________________________Aina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Roohani Khazain vol.5 p.547
“Every Muslim will accept me and will confirm my claim except the zurrayatul baghaya whose hearts will have been sealed up by God Almighty.”
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A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, pp. 566–570, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 5, pp. 566–570, see also the 2009 online edition of Tadhkirah, page 198-201
(A) Allah observed that my cousins and near relatives were committed to ruinous courses…and that they denied the existence of God and were wicked people…. Allah saw that they incited people to vice and forbade good…and did not refrain from speaking ill of the Holy Prophet, peace and the blessings of Allah be upon him, but persisted in it…. While they were in this condition Allah chose me for the revival of His faith…and provided me handsomely with inspiration and verbal revelation and communications and visions… whereupon they rebelled and mockingly demanded Signs and said: ‘We have no knowledge of any God Who speaks to anyone…so let him produce a Sign if he is truthful…’ In this way they advanced daily in their error and their arrogance till they decided to propagate their evil thoughts and to mislead the ignorant ones with their delusions. They have published a document in which they have abused the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and have abused the Word of Allah and have denied the existence of God, hallowed be His name. Along with this they have demanded Signs in support of my truthfulness and have demanded proof of the existence of God Almighty. They have published this document widely in all quarters and have thus helped all the non-Muslims of India against Islam and have transgressed greatly, the equal of which has not been heard of even about the Pharaohs…. When this document of theirs, which was prepared by the biggest of them in evil as well as in age, reached me…I found it full of phrases whereby the heavens might be rent asunder…. Thereupon, I bolted my doors and supplicated
my Lord, the Bountiful, prostrating myself before Him and…saying: My Lord, my Lord, help Your servant and humiliate Your enemies. Respond to me O Lord, respond to me. How long will they mock You and Your Messenger, how long will they call Your Book false and will abuse Your Messenger? I beseech You of Your mercy, O Hayy [the Ever-Living], Qayyum [the Self Subsisting], Mo‘in [the Helper].
Then Allah had mercy on me in consequence of my weeping, my sighing, and my tears and He called me and said:
[Arabic] I have observed their disobedience and their transgression, I shall soon afflict them with various types of misfortunes and shall wipe them out from under the heavens. You will soon see how I shall deal with them and I have power to do all that I might will. I shall make their women widows, and their children orphans, and their houses ruins, so that they might taste that which they have said and they have earned. But I shall not destroy them suddenly at one swoop, but stage by stage, so that they might have a chance of turning back and repenting. My curse will descend upon them and upon their homes and upon their little ones and their big ones and their women and their men and their guests who will enter their doors. All of them will be accursed except those who believe and act righteously and cut off their relations with them and keep off from their gatherings. Those will be the recipients of My mercy.
This is the substance of what my Lord has revealed to me. So I conveyed the messages of my Lord to them, but they felt no fear and did not affirm the truth. Instead, they increased in their rebellion and denial, and went on mocking like the enemies of the faith. Then my Lord
addressed me and said:
We shall show them Signs which will cause them to weep and shall send down upon them strange afflictions and extraordinary diseases and shall make their lives a misery and shall
pile up afflictions upon them and no one will be able to help them.
Thus did Allah the Almighty deal with them, breaking their backs with the weight of sorrows and debts and privations and sent down upon them all kinds of trials and tribulations and opened for them the doors of death and destruction so that they might turn back and should give up their indifference, but their hearts were hardened and they did not understand nor did they wake up nor did they fear. When the time of the display of the Sign drew near, it so happened in those days that one of their near relations of the name of Ahmad Baig desired to take possession of the
land of his sister whose husband had disappeared many years before.
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(Ibid., p. 568)
“They would ridicule the words of Allah and his Messenger; even saying that the Quran is nothing but meaningless words. […]”
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A’ina-i-Kamalat-i-Islam, p. 572
””Tell him to establish a relationship with you by giving his elder daughter in marriage to you and thus to obtain light from your light. Tell him that you would agree to the transfer of the land as he has requested and show him other favors in the event of this marriage taking place. Tell him that this would be a covenant between you and that if he accepts it he will find you the best acceptor on your side and that if he does not accept it and his daughter is married to someone else that marriage would not prove a blessing either for his daughter or for himself. Tell him that if he persists in carrying out any different design he will become subject to a series of misfortunes, the last of which would be his death within three years of the marriage of his daughter to someone else. Warn him that his death is near and will occur at a time when he does not expect it. The husband of his daughter will also die within two years and a half. This is a divine decree.”””
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 5, pp. 572–574, see also the 2009 online edition of Tadhkirah, page 202
“””I have been informed of matters which had never entered my mind nor did I know anything about them. At such a time God directed me through revelation that I should seek the hand of his elder daughter in marriage and should tell him that he should first establish this relationship with me and should thereby seek light from my light. I was also directed to tell him that I had been commanded to let him have the land which he had asked for and even some more and to show benevolence towards him in many ways, provided he would agree to the marriage of his elder daughter to me. This would be a covenant between us and if he agreed to it he would find me a good party to it; but if he did not agree to it I was to warn him that I had been informed by God that her marriage to anyone else would not prove blessed for the person she marries nor for her father. If he did not comply with my request he would be afflicted with misfortunes culminating in his death. He would die within three years of the marriage [of his daughter]. Indeed, his death might occur earlier at a time when he is unaware. So also the husband of that girl would die within two and a half years of the marriage. This is a divine decree and you can act as you might choose, I have warned you….Then, I wrote to him under divine direction and as indicated by my Gracious God…‘I am writing this letter to you under divine direction and not of my own accord, so make this letter secure in your box for this is from one true and faithful and God knows that I am entirely truthful in this matter and the promise I have made has been made by God’s direction and not on my own. It is Allah Who has made me speak under His revelation.’”””
_______________________________________________________________________________________________A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 5, page 576
In this revelation, MGA’s god is clearly saying that he will kill the husband of Muhammadi Begum. Ahmadi’s purposely mis-translated kill as destroy (See the explanation by Hassan Odeh).
(Arabic), ‘We shall kill her husband (also), just like we killed her father and return her to you. This is the truth from your lord. Then be not those who doubt. We shall delay it only for a fixed period. Say: Wait till the end of the term and I am with you among those that wait. When the promise of God is fulfilled {it will be said}: Is this what you called false or were you blind?””
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The exact same translation was done in the 2004 edition of Tadhkirah, and the 1976 english edition (see page 138).
The reference from the 1967 edition of Tadhkirah, URDU
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[A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, (At-Tabligh), pp. 577–578, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 5, pp. 577–578](see also, the 2009 english edition of Tadhkirah)
“”[Arabic] [Grace will arrive with his coming. He is light and is blessed and holy and is of the righteous. He will spread blessings and will nurture people on pure food and will be a helper of the faith…. He will be one of My Signs and will be the banner of My supports so that those who deny you should know that I am with you through My open grace…. He will be perceptive, intelligent and handsome. His heart will be filled with knowledge, his interior will be gentle and his breast will be filled with security. He will be bestowed the Messianic spirit and will be blessed with the spirit of security. Monday! O blessed Monday, blessed spirits will arrive on that day.] “”
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Aina Kamalat e Islam, page 601-604
MIRZA’S FAILED PROPHESY AND 10 CURSES TO MOLANA MUHAMMAD HUSSAIN BATALVI
In his book Aina Kamalat e Islam at page 601-604, Mirza Ghulam Qadiyani writes that Molana Muhammad Hussain Batalvi always criticise me and says i am an uneducated man , incompetent in Arabic language knowledge. He also says that Molvi Nooruddin is only a Hakim and Molvi Ahsan Amrohi is only a munshi. (Clerk). So he Mirza challenged Batalvi to have a contest of writing tafsir of 80 verses from Quraan and writing poetry (Naat). Few months ago the date of which i don,t remember, I saw an article by Muhammad Hussain Batalvi wherein Batalvi calls me dajjal, liar and dishonest. Beside this he says I am ignorant of religious knowledge. He insulted me like this repeatedly.
Then I cried before Allah swt for help, after this prayer I received Ilham “UDOONI ASTAJIB LAKUM” meaning pray to Me I will accept . So i prayed for victory against Batalvi, my heart got cleared I understood that my prayers have been answered. The Ilham “ INNI MAHEENUN MAN ARAD AHANTIKA
(I will humiliate those who intend to humiliate you) seems to have materialised. For this contest i prayed before Allah to destroy the liar. I have prayed for the contest fixing a time period of 40 days.
Now if i lose and my prayers are not answered then non acceptance of my prayer will prove my ilham as lie. I may be treated as liar and shall be prepared to accept any punishment. If Batalvi loses the contest his ignorance and humiliation shall be revealed to the world. But if he runs away from the contest he would receive 10 curses from Allah swt. After writing this MGQ writes words “Laanat” 10 times in his book.
Ahmadi’s propagated this 40 days prayer of Mirza far and wide at that time. Every follower of Mirza was anxiously waiting for a heavenly calamity or accident to fall upon Molana Muhammad Hussain Batalvi days in and days out. As the time goes by without any such news many were of the opinion that Batalvi could fall prey to such a mishap at the eleventh hour.
Finally the 40 days time line passed but to the disappointment of qadiyanis nothing happened to Batalvi. Ahmadi’s felt very sad to know that neither Mirza,s Ilham proved true nor his prayers were answered .
After this Batalvi wrote in his Magazine IShaatussunnah :
“Dear readers it is 30th April 1892 today , three days have passed after the expiry of 40 days time line. I am flourishing and am better than Mirza in health, wealth and in children. May be Mirza would justify his failed prophesy by telling his Mureeds that It was meant a metaphoric AZAB would fall on me on qayamah or he could say look Batalvi felt great distress during fasting or see Batalvi ,s son has suffered from cold and cough and in this way my prophesy has fulfilled with extreme grace.””
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Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and the Splitting of the Moon incident of Muhammad
The “Zarrayatul baghaya” insult by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was meant for Muslims
In 1893, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad made 6 predictions about Muhammadi Begum
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad wanted Muhammadi begum’s husband to be killed
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad vs. Batalvi-1891-1892 era, MGA sent 10 Lanats on Batalvi – ahmadiyyafactcheckblog
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