Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Parts I & II — Page 49
49 PArT oNE to any kind of excuse, give to the one who duly responds to this challenge the pos- session and the right to make use of my property worth ten thousand rupees, pro- vided that three judges, acceptable to both parties, unanimously give the verdict that the conditions [laid down for the con- test] have been duly met. Let it be clear, however, that if he is unable to advance rational arguments from his own scrip- ture, or if he, in accordance with the con- ditions laid down in the announcement, fails to put forward even one fifth of the arguments, he will have to make a writ- ten submission, in clear and unequivocal terms, that the inadequacy and irrational- ity of his scripture has rendered him inca- pable of fulfilling this clause. If, however,