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54 dare to invent a falsehood concerning God. The same claim was made by the Holy Prophet (on whom be peace and the blessings of God). The Holy Quran says:— [ 39 @ " @ 0 < - @ A < B9 @ * < \9 ; < ! ; ; ; < @ 9 < ; ; ] ; ; ) ^% , 17 ( “I have passed a considerable portion of my life among you, yet you do not desist from calling me an impostor. ” That is to say, every act and every hour of my life has been before your eyes, and you know that I have ever held to the truth and that it is impossible for me to utter a falsehood. Then how can you charge me with an imposture ? This is a clearer and more emphatic claim than that of Jesus, and the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) challenged his enemies in similar words. God bade him announce to his enemies that he had spent the whole of his life before their eyes then why did they not desist from calling him an impostor. And then, by way of admonition, he says; “How is it that these men behold Thee and yet have no eyes to see ?”—that is to say, seeing the wonderful purity of your life, how can they doubt your claim ? The Promised Messiah issued a challenge to his enemies in ac- cordance with this revelation, but nobody came forward to take it up, and his bitterest enemies confess that his whole life was a uniform record of purity and righteousness. He had many friends among the Hindus and Sikhs, who subsequently became his bitter opponents in religion, but they all bear unanimous testi- mony to the fact that he bore a unique and a spotless character. An old Sikh gentleman always speaks of him with tears in his eyes and describes him as a “born saint. ” His worst enemy, Maulvi Mohammed Hussain of Batala, who travelled throughout India to procure a verdict of apostacy against him from the Ulema, and who set all rules of morality at naught in Order to incite the Government and the people against him, wrote in his journal, the Ishaat-us-Sunna, concerning him as follows: “I have