A Critical Review of the Pamphlet, 'Fateh-e-Qadian' — Page 10
10 A critical Review of the Pamphlet—‘f a te h -e-Qadian’ help him with the Holy Spirit. And whichever of us two is acting against Your will and is not truthful, deprive him of this ability and prevent him from the expression in eloquent Arabic and the insight into the Holy Quran, so that people may know whom You support and from whom Your blessings and the help of the Holy Spirit is withheld. ’ After this prayer, the two parties should start writing their commentaries in Arabic with the condition that both parties should neither have any book with them nor any assistant to aid them. It shall be essential for each person to write quietly, with his own hand, so that the other competitor can not extract or plagiarize anything from the eloquent composition and the fine points they may overhear. Each party shall be allowed exactly seven hours to write this commentary, which must be done face to face and not behind any veils. Each party shall have the authority to search the other to make sure that he is not secretly getting help from any books. Both parties should complete their commentaries in seven hours but on the same day and in the same gathering, in the presence of witnesses. Once written, the commentaries should then be signed and read out to three scholars (with the responsibility of their selection and arrangement for their attendance being on P i r Meher ‘Al i Sh a h). It shall be the duty of each of these three maulavis to give their opinion, on oath, as to which of the two has been written with the help of the Holy Spirit both regarding the commentary and the Arabic composition. It shall be necessary that the three maulavis are neither the followers of this humble one nor the disciples of Meher ‘Al i Sh a h.