Life of Ahmad — Page 604
604 CHAPTER 64 POLICE HARASS AHMAD as Early in October 1898, Maulaw i Abdul Q a dir of Ludhiana, who had been a school-fellow of Maulaw i Muhammad Husain of Batala, wrote a letter to him in which he courteously and respectfully pointed out that Ahmad as had for so long suggested four different ways of testing his truth (1) Writing Arabic (2) Prayer (3) Writing a Commentary of the Holy Quran (4) Making prophecies; but no one had come forward so far to test him on this basis. Now Maulaw i Abdul Q a dir requested Maulaw i Muhammad Husain publicly to enter into a Mub a hala with Ahmad as at Batala so that the question might be settled once for all. He offered, in very good spirit, Rs. 200 to Maulaw i Muhammad Husain for this purpose. The request was publicly endorsed by the Ahmadis of Patiala, Simla, Allahabad, Batala, Amritsar, Lahore, Bhera and Sialkot, and the amount offered to Maulaw i Muhammad Husain was increased to Rs. 2,525/8. It was raised to Rs. 8,000 by November 7th, but Maulaw i Muhammad Husain made no reply. On