Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Parts I & II — Page 140
140 BAr a h i n-e-a h madiyya Gentlemen! I appeal to your sense of reason and justice that you should either produce from your scriptures such true and rationally compelling arguments as I shall produce from the Holy Quran, beginning with Chapter 1, or else show some modesty and decency and stop slandering. But above all, if you have any fear of God and desire for salvation, you must believe [in Islam]. Having set out all the preliminary points that I had intended, I shall now conclude this preface. The main text of the book will follow wherein arguments for the divine ori- gin of the Holy Quran and truthfulness of the Holy Prophet shall be laid down in detail. These arguments—whose excel- lence and incontrovertible nature has compelled me to include in this book a challenge of 10,000 rupees to anyone who can refute them—shall be adduced from the Holy Quran itself. This method of presenting rational arguments solely on the basis of Word of God is in itself a criterion that marks a clear distinction between us Muslims and our opponents, and should be enough to open the eyes of every reasonable person. It is a guiding light that will readily tell apart the truthful from the liar. To all those who deny Islam, I would say that if they have any reservations in accepting the Holy Quran as the true Word of God and admitting its superiority, they are under obliga- tion to logically disprove these proofs and arguments on the basis of their own scriptures. Otherwise, you are aware, and any honest person understands, that once the truth and supe- riority of a Divine Book has been established through hun- dreds of arguments, it is unfair and completely indecent and