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the outside world and encourage comparative study of religions. . Therefore, in the year 1902, the Promised Messiah gave instructions to start the monthly as early as possible. This was promptly done in the form of "The Review of Religions. " 6. During this period the Urdu Papers Al-Hakam' and * Al-Badar' from Qadian were doing useful and commendable work in their own field. . Great thinkers like Tolstoy and others expressed very good opinions about the 'Review of Religions' after reading the articles about the teachings of Islam. . The Jamaat continues to grow. The Promised Messiah had warned beforehand in KISHTI-INUH about the plague that was destined to cover the whole of the sub-continent. On the other hand he had given the glad tidings for those who were sincere Ahmadis that very few of them shall suffer from the said scourge. For those who lived within the four walls of his own house, he guaranteed that they shall be immune from the effect of the plague. No one shall die of this disease. In the year 1902 plague spread like wild fire all over the country and people died in thousands daily. But the Ahmadis escaped the scourge in a miraculous manner and of those who lived within the walls of the Promised Messiah, not a single person died. "Ijaaz-i-Ahmadi ". On November 12th in the year 1902, the Hazrat commenced writing a book in the Arabic language together with a long. QASEEDA (poem). He completed these two in four days only. . In actual fact these came out of the press duly printed within the four days mentioned. On 15th November he called out the maulvis who considered themselves great scholars to do the same i. e. write similar book and poem in the time mentioned. . The challenge included Maulvi Sana Ullah of Amritsar and others and he, for an inducement, offered them a reward of ten. JULY/AUGUST 1989 25