Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 401
POSTSCRIPT-SIGN NUMBER 137 and its principles and teachings that are against the Vedas, to be erroneous and false. (. [The curse of Allah be upon the liars ] لَعْنَةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى الْكَذِبِيْنَ) But my opponent is Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. He believes the Quran to be the Word of God and considers all its teachings to be correct and right. Just as after studying the Quran etc. , I consider the Quran to be false, so does he, the totally illiterate and absolutely bereft of Sanskrit and Nagri, believes the Vedas to be false without studying or perusing them. " O Parmeshwar! Do judge truly between the two of us; for a liar can never be honoured like a truthful one in Your presence! Your eternal servant, Lekh Rām Sharma Sobha Sad, Āryah Samāj, Peshawar Presently Editor, Āryah Gazette, Ferozepur, Punjab 401 1. Footnote: If I have not read the Vedas, at least Lekh Rām has mastered all four of them. Here too what more can be said than―, لَعْنَةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى الْكَذِبِينَ ["The curse of Allah be upon the liars']! A debate is [always] over principles. Whereas the Aryah Samājists have themselves published the Vedic princi- ples, then every reasonable person has the right to discuss them and it is ab- solutely wrong [to allege] that I have not read the Vedas. I have read from end to end the translations of the Vedas published in this country. I have also perused Pandit Dayanand's Ved Bhash and for some twenty-five years, I have been constantly debating with the Āryas. To say that I know nothing about the Vedas is a blatant lie. If the Āryah Pandits have acknowledged Lekh Rām's Vedic scholarship, I am eager to see that certificate. On the contrary, his sta- عِجْلٌ جَسَدٌ لَّهُ خُوَارٌ. tus is not one bit more than what God has said about him ['He is just a lifeless body of a calf out of which issues a disagreeable sound. ] (Author)