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4. Muslims. If anyone should be disposed to consider our language an instance of Asiatic exaggeration, he should point out at least one book which refutes the opponents of Islam so forcefully and emphatically, and should name three or four such helpers of Islam who are determined to serve Islam with all they have and who have challenged the opponents of Islam and those who deny the possibility of revelation to come and satisfy themselves that the challenger is himself a recipient of revelation. It is well-known that Satanic suggestions are mostly false, but not one of the revelations received by the author of Braheen Ahmadiyyah has been proved false up to this day. Can any Muslim follower of the Quran believe that Satan can be given knowledge, like the prophets and angels, of that which is hidden so that not one of the disclosures of the hidden should lack truth?'. He concluded with: 'The author of Braheen Ahmadiyyah has, by writing this book, safeguarded the honour of the Muslims and has challenged the opponents of Islam forcefully and emphatically. He has announced to the whole world that anyone who doubts the truth of Islam should come to him and should witness its intellectual and spiritual proofs based on the Quran, and the miraculous manifestations of the prophethood of Muhammad, peace be upon him. ". A saintly Sufi, Hazrat Ahmad Jan of Ludhiana, wrote: 'That great personage, benefactor of mankind, source of benevolence and beneficence, personal proof of Islam, honoured above the commonalty and the nobility, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, may his blessings endure, Chief of Qadian, has written a book designated. Braheen Ahmadiyyah in Urdu. This book establishes the truth of. Islam and of the Prophethood of Muhammad, peace be upon him, and of the Holy Quran, through three hundred strong proofs of various types and refutes all religions opposed to Islam by convincing reasoning. The verses of the Holy Quran that are cited on their appropriate occasions in this book amount to two-thirds of the whole Quran. In this fourteenth century of Islam great confusion prevails among the followers of every religion. At this time a book was needed like the Braheen Ahmadiyyah and a Reformer was needed like Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad who is ready to prove the claims of Islam to the satisfaction of its opponents. . He added: 'The author of Braheen Ahmadiyyah is not one of the common run of divines and spiritual preceptors, but has been specially com-