Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 635
A GREAT VICTORY—SIGN NUMBER 196 635 No. NEWSPAPER DATE I Chicago Interpreter 28 Jun. 1903 2 Telegraph 5 Jul. 3 Argonaut, 1903 I 1 Dec. San Francisco 1902 SUMMARY OF NEWS The newspaper ran the headline, 'Will Dowie come out for this contest?' Printing my photograph side by side with that of Dowie's, it reported that Mirza Sahib says that Dowie is an impostor, and that he prays for God to destroy and annihilate him in his lifetime. Then the newspaper quotes me as saying: "The way of distinguishing between the one who is an impostor and the one who is truthful is that both should pray to God that from the two, the liar should die in the lifetime of the truthful one. ' The newspaper reports that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of the Punjab, India, has challenged Dowie, the claimant of prophethood, to a mubahalah, and that this is to be undertaken by praying to God that whosoever of the two is a liar should die in the lifetime of the one who is truthful. The newspaper ran the headline, 'Prayer duel between Christianity and Islam' and gives a summary of my letter to Dowie in which I wrote to him: 'You lead a Jama'at and I too have a large following. To decide therefore who from among us is truly from God we can both pray to the God we believe in. Then the one whose prayer is accepted should be considered to be truly from God. And, the prayer should be: 'May God cause the one of us who is a liar to die earlier than the one who is truthful. Surely, the paper says, this is a reasonable and just method to reach the truth.