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132 condition that both of them were welcome to write a book as convincingly as one produced by me. ” Both of them are given one month’s period, i. e. , by the end of June 1894 after which it should be assumed that they had run away from the challenge. The Promised Messiah as further enlarged the scope of the challenge by inviting all the Padres to join and also extended the grace period to three months. The Promised Messiah as further offered a reward of Rs. 1,000 each to any person who could produce a single hadith wherein it had been asserted that the advent of any other prophet had been heralded and supported by solar and lunar eclipses jointly taking place in the same month. He offered another prize of Rs. 1,000 to any one, who could prove with the help of Arabic grammar, poetry or prose wherein the moon of the first night has been called as Qamar. ( Life of Ahmad by A. R. Dard ra , edition of 2008, p. 418) Specimen of Writing The correct interpretation and the true and correct meaning [of the h ad i th ] is that ‘the moon would be eclipsed on the first night in the month of Ramadan’ means that it will be eclipsed on the first of the three nights in which it is full, as you well-know the expression ayy a m-e-b id [white days]…. Also, the meaning of his words that ‘the sun would be eclipsed on the middle [day]’ is that the solar eclipse would occur in a manner that it would split in the middle the days on which an eclipse takes place. … I have not said this on my own; rather, it is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds. ( N ur ul- H aqq , part 2, pp. 13, 15, 19, R uha n i Khaz a ’in , vol. 8, pp. 201, 204, 210)