Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 395
POSTSCRIPT-SIGN NUMBER 137 395 137. [ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEnth] sign―This grand Sign relates to the mubahalah [prayer duel] of Lekh Rām. Let it be clear that in the end of my book Surmah Chashm-e-Āryah, I had invited the Āryas to a mubahalah and had written that the teaching attributed to the Vedas is not correct and that the Āryas are false in their repudiation of the Holy Quran. If they claim the teaching ascribed to the Vedas to be true or that the Holy Quran, God forbid, is not from God, then let them enter into a mubahalah contest with me. It was also written that the foremost person I challenged to a mubā- halah was Lālah Murli Dhar,¹ whom I had debated at Hoshiarpur. Next to him, my addressee was Lālah Jīvan Dās, Secretary of the Āryah Samāj, Lahore, and, after him, anyone from amongst the Āryas deemed to be respectable and scholarly was being addressed. In response to this writing of mine, Pandit Lekh Rām engaged in a mubahalah with me through his book Khabṭ-e-Aḥmadiyya, which he published in 1888 as is recorded at the end of the book. Thus, on page 344 of his book Khabṭ-e-Aḥmadiyya, he writes the following as the preamble for the mubahalah: Since our respected and esteemed Master Murli Dhar and Munshi Jivan Dās have no time on account of their official duties, therefore, of my own volition and in response to their command, I have assumed charge of this task too. Thus, in keeping with a wise man's saying that a liar should be taken to the end of his tether, I accept Mirza Sahib's latest request (i. e. a mubāhalah) as well, and I hereby make the mubahalah well known by getting it printed. 1. It is obvious that it did not take much time to pen the few lines of the muba- halah, for the essence of a mubahalah is only this sentence that, naming one- self and the other party, one supplicates to God that whoever of the two of us is false be destroyed. Were Master Murli Dhar and Munshi Jivan Dās too busy to write even these two lines? Rather, the fact of the matter is that they both were fearful to face the truth. However, Lekh Ram, on account of his bad luck, was impudent and [spiritually] blind, so he took upon himself their punish- ment due to his wanton impudence. Ultimately, after engaging in the muba- halah, he passed away from this world on 6 March 1897, a Saturday. (Author)