An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam — Page xxxvii
xxxvii of the Khilafat and about the Companions of the Holy Prophet sa are collected in these volumes. There are seven volumes of letters. The fifth volume comprises five parts. Details of these volumes are given as: Volume 1 One hundred and sixteen pages, published in 1908, in Urdu. This comprises a collection of letters that the Promised Messiah as had written to M i r ‘Abb a s ‘Al i Sh a h Ludhi a nv i from October 1882 to June 1885. Volume 2 Ninety pages, published in Lahore in 1912, in Urdu. This comprises a collection of letters written by the Promised Messiah as from 1878 to 1903 to various Hindus and the leaders of the A ryah Sam a j, including Indarman Mur a dab a d i , Pandit Dy a nand, Pandit Lekh Ram, B a w a Shiv Nar a ’in and R a m Charan, in which the Promised Messiah as explained the truth of Islam and fixed a period of one year for anyone of them to come and stay with him in order to witness a Divine sign and he also drew a comparison of the teachings of the Holy Quran with the Vedas. Volume 3 One hundred and twenty-two pages, published in Lahore in 1914, in Urdu, is a collection of letters written by the Promised Messiah as from 1884 to 1903 to Christian missionaries, including Alexander Dowie. He asked the Christian missionaries to produce a comparable observation about Jesus as the one made about the Holy Prophet sa by the King of Ethiopia in his time. He offered them a reward of Rs. 1,000 for it. The Promised Messiah as effectively answered all objections raised by Christians about the Holy Prophet sa and established the truth of the Holy Prophet sa with cogent arguments.