The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 114
114. Essence of Islam-V was also published in some well-known newspapers in America. . . It is only by the grace of God that the editors of these American newspapers, despite being. Christians and hostile to Islam, published my article about mubahala so widely and with such enthusiasm that it became widely known throughout America and. Europe, and the news of it even reverberated back to. India. The gist of my mubahala was that Islam is the true faith and the Christian doctrine is false; and I am the Messiah who is from God, and whose coming in the latter days was promised in the scriptures of the. Prophets. I also wrote that Dr. Dowie was false in his claim of Prophethood, as well as in his doctrine of. Trinity, and that if he accepted the challenge of mubahala he would die within my lifetime in great pain and misery. Even if he did not accept the challenge, he would still not be able to escape Divine punishment. In response to this, the ill-fated Dowie published the following lines sometime in December 1903, and also in the 26th September, 1903 issue of his newspaper: "There is a foolish Mohammedan Messiah in India who keeps on writing to me that Jesus Christ lies buried in Kashmir. People ask me why do I not reply to him. Do you think that I should reply to these gnats and flies? If I were to put my foot on them, I would trample them to death. ". In his issue of 19th December, 1902, he wrote: "My mission is to gather people from the East and West, North and South, and populate this town and other towns with Christians, until the