An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam — Page 112
112 Background After A ’ i na-e-Kam a l a t-e-Isl a m , the Promised Messiah as produced three other books in Arabic. The Promised Messiah as , who had only an elementary education in Arabic in his early age, demonstrated a power and mastery of Arabic language which amazed even the Arabs. The uniqueness and the miraculous character of the Arabic writings of the Promised Messiah as are to be understood in a relative sense, and relative to other human productions. The uniqueness of the Holy Quran is absolute. It is superior to any human writings even that of the Promised Messiah including his revealed sermon, which possessed only relative uniqueness, while the Holy Quran possesses absolute uniqueness. It may be pointed out here (as already stated) that Hadrat Ahmad, the Promised Messiah as , had received only elementary education. But when he claimed to be the Messiah, his enemies taunted him on his lack of education and of ignorance and said that God could never make such a man the Mahdi and the Messiah. At that point of time, God granted him a vast knowledge of, and mastery over, the Arabic language and in one night he was taught 40,000 roots of Arabic words…. He challenged all his opponents, which included scholars and so-called authorities on the Arabic language, but none dared to accept his challenge. However, several of his opponents alleged that he had hired the services of a learned Arabic scholar to write these books for him, as he himself was an ignorant man. Thereupon, he extended his challenge to the whole world to produce the like of his books in Arabic and, in order to demonstrate that these books were no ordinary compositions, he also proclaimed that if the books written by other scholars were judged to be superior compositions to his own, then they would be at liberty to impose upon him any penalty they pleased. The Promised Messiah as even gave leave to them to write books