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94 his prayers the status of acceptance. So they should hearken to My com- mands and believe in Me so that they may attain to goodness. ’ Similarly, at many other places in the Holy Quran Allah, the Lord of Glory, has set forth the signs of those people who gain salvation. If all of those were to be written down, then it would take up a lot of time. For example, one such verse from among those is: 1 (Pt. 9, R. 18, S u rah al-Anf a l)— اَهُّيَاٰۤي َنْيِذَّلا اْۤوُنَمٰا ْنِا اوُقَّتَت َهّٰللا ْلَعْجَي ْمُكَّل اًناَقْرُف Meaning that, ‘O ye who believe! If you fear God Almighty, then God will grant you a distinction over the others. ’ Now, I ask Deputy Abdullah Atham respectfully if there is any way of attaining salvation written down in Christianity, and if, in your view, that method is correct and proper and those who follow it attain to salvation, then certainly the signs of those who attain salvation must also have been written in this book. And surely the true believers who attain salvation and thus become liberated from this world of darkness, their characteristics must be written somewhat in the Gospels. It would be very kind of you if you could give me a brief answer whether or not those signs of salvation are found in yourselves or among some such very great holy men who are leaders and guides and at the head of your group. If they are found then their proof should be presented. And if these are not found, then you can understand that the thing in which the signs of its soundness and perfection are not found, then can such a thing be considered to be safe and existing in its original state? For example, if in turpeth or the herb scammonia or senna the essence of these herbs is missing, and it does not have the purgative effect, can such turpeth or scammonia be said to be pure? And apart from this, the method that you gentlemen consider to be the way of attaining salvation, when we compare it to the other way that the Holy Quran has presented, your method’s artificiality and 1. S u rah al-Anf a l, 8:30 [Publisher]