Life of Ahmad — Page 693
as ADDRESSES RULERS AND THE RULED 693 doubt that the signs were beyond the power of man. Further details of the conference should be settled by calling a preliminary meeting. Ahmad as offered himself as one of the candidates who would prove that he was sent by God and said that he was prepared to be put to death if he failed to do so or, even if the advocate of any other faith succeeded in showing signs similar to those which he could show. There is no doubt that a world conference held for this purpose under the auspices of the Government would have certainly settled the question of religion once for all. The Pioneer (Allahabad), dated October 29th, 1899, and the Madras Standard , dated November 2nd, 1899, approved of this suggestion, which was published in the pages of the Pioneer. These papers also suggested that the Metropolitan of India should champion the Christian faith. But no body offered to take up Ahmad’s as challenge. If the Government had adopted the suggestion there is no doubt that religious disputes, which are at the bottom of the whole trouble in India, would have come to an end and peace and harmony would have reigned throughout the country. On August 1st, 1899, Ahmad as finished writing his book Tiry a qul Qul u b 166. In this book he emphasised 166 This book was printed at the D iy a ul Islam Press and published on October 28th, 1902. Five supplements were added to it. In the first supplement were published 279 names of non-Ahmadi persons (out of a total of about 4,000) who testified to the clear fulfilment of Ahmad’s as prophecy about Pt. Lekhr a m. The second supplement contained an account of 75 prophecies which Ahmad as had made and which had been fulfilled in