The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 378
378 Himself, can never be contravened. . . . Essence of Islam-III It is for this reason that I have made this public an- nouncement together with an offer of five hundred ru- pees as an award for the citation of a single instance to the contrary, and I am prepared to deposit this amount in any government bank in advance. If Hafiz Muhammad Yūsuf Şahib and those who think like him, whose names I have mentioned in this announcement, will cite an in- stance with adequate proof in accordance with the Holy Qur'an, in which a person who falsely claimed to be a Prophet or a Messenger or a commissioned one of God, continued to publish his alleged revelations for more than twenty-three years, I shall pay such a person the sum of five hundred rupees in cash. They will be at liberty to cite such an instance from anywhere in the world within a fortnight of the publication of this announcement. [Arba'in, No. III, Rūķānī Khazā'in, vol. 17, pp. 387-402] Submitting the Matter to the Judge of Judges O Ye revered clerics though the falsity of your notion that that you are the true believers and I am a disbeliever, that you are truthful and I am a liar, that you follow Islām and I go against it, that you are the accepted ones of God and I am rejected by Him, that you are the heirs of Para- dise and I am condemned to hell, has been established by the Holy Qur'an in the estimation of those who are given to reflection, and the readers of this book can well under- stand who is right and who is wrong, yet there is another way whereby distinction can be made between those who are true and those who are false, and between the ac- cepted ones of God and the rejected ones. It has always been the way of God that if an accepted one and a re- jected one both beseech God Almighty for heavenly help,