Khalifatul-Masih IV — Page 21
21 A PRAYER DUEL Allah the Almighty for protection and guidance and challenged all the leaders of the enemies to a prayer duel. We learn from the Holy Qur’an that when a group of Christians refused to accept Islam after they were given arguments and evi- dence in its support, the Holy Prophet s as was ordered by Allah to challenge them to a prayer duel to settle the dispute. Both parties would leave the matter to Allah the Almighty. Each party prays to Allah the Almighty to help and assist the one who is true and they invoke the curse of Allah upon the liar. However, when the Holy Prophet s as offered the Christians the prayer duel challenge, they declined. The Promised Messiah as followed the same practice when he gave this very challenge to his opponents. Accordingly, Hazrat rta also presented this challenge to all the lead- ers of the enemies of Ahmadiyyat. Allah the Almighty demonstrated astonishing results from this prayer duel.