Hazrat Ahmad — Page 36
36. HADHRAT AHMAD announcement inviting the Christians to a forty days contest. The followers of other religions were also included in the challenge. It was, however the Christians to whom it was specially addressed. . The challenge was accompanied by the offer of an award of a thousand rupees to the person who could prove that the prophecies made by Jesus were superior and more sublime than those made by the Promised Messiah. The challenge was not accepted by anyone. . Prophecy about Lekh Ram. On 6th March 1897, a member of the Arya community, Lekh. Ram by name, was killed in accordance with a prophecy made by the Promised Messiah some years earlier. This caused a great outcry among the members of that community. Needless to say, there was great stir against the Promised Messiah and he was openly charged with murder. The authorities carried out a prompt search of his house in the hope that some clue to the murder might be found, but God foiled all the attempts of his enemies and though every effort was made to involve him in the crime, the Promised. Messiah's innocence was completely established. . Turkish Consul at Qadian. In May 1897 there occurred an event which left its mark on history. Hussain Kami, the Turkish Consul, after several requests for an interview, came to Qadian to visit the Promised Messiah and made a request for special case on behalf of the Sultan of Turkey. . The Promised Messiah who had been made aware of certain matters by virtue of his own insight and through Divine revelation, let him know frankly that the condition of the Sultan's Empire was not sound and that the attitudes and behavior of the members of the. Sultan's government were unsatisfactory and that in these circumstances the end could hardly be favorable. These observations caused grave offense to the Consul who left the place in high dudgeon and published a letter in one of the Lahore papers grossly vituperative to the Promised Messiah. . The affair created quite a commotion among the Muslims of the. Punjab and of India. Subsequent events, however, proved the truth of the Promised Messiah's words when a number of his prophecies in that context were fulfilled. Hussian Kami himself furnished an illustration of the prophecy: 'I will cause to be humiliated him who seeks thy humiliation. ' A grave charge was brought against