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26 under these circumstances, to place reliance exclusively on the state- ments that have been documented in those books will be of benefit to the individual who believes in them and considers them accurate, in addition to holding no objection to whatever meanings are ascribed to them, but if the system of reasoning and logic is included along with this, then through this system we will come to know very quickly which is the True, Holy, Perfect, and Living Word of God Almighty. Accordingly, my purport was that whichever book about which the claim is made that it is complete in itself and that it presents every grade of proof on its own, then that very book should be responsible itself for also presenting the logical arguments in support of its claims. It should not be the case that the book should be completely powerless and silent and some other person should stand up in its support. And every just person can easily understand that if the parties adopt this way of proceeding, then establishing the truth and refuting falsehood would be accomplished so very easily. I had hoped that Mr. Abdullah Atham, who has already claimed that the Gospel is, in fact, a Complete Book, would also have certainly believed, along with this claim, that the Gospel itself presents its claims in a logical manner, but the reply given yesterday by the aforenamed gentleman left me greatly astonished as well as saddened that the afore- named gentleman paid no attention to this and instead in his sixth point addressing me stated, ‘The argument that you have presented from the Quran, I regret to say that I am still not convinced of it being revealed. When you convince me by proving it to be revealed, then its credentials will be accepted automatically. ’ Now, every thinking person can reflect: When was it my wish that he should accept everything stated in the Holy Quran without inves- tigation? I had merely written—that is to say, my intent was—that the logical arguments which are presented by the parties should not be their own conceived contrivances put forth; but rather, the book that has made a claim to be complete, that claim too should be proven in detail, and, moreover, that book itself should present the logical proof