Life of Ahmad — Page 796
796 CHAPTER 75 MIRACLE OF THE MESSIAH as A Sufi of the Chisht i school, P i r Mihr Ali Shah of Golra, district Rawalpindi, produced a book entitled after a labour of several years. It was printed at the Mustaf a’i Press, Lahore in Ramadan 1317 A. H. Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra read a few pages of this book on February 17th, 1900, and wrote a letter to P i r Mihr Ali Shah the next day. It was written in this book that if any one wanted to say anything about this book he must refer to authentic commentaries such as Ibni Jar i r and Ibni Kath i r and also to the true Hadith or he must base his arguments upon the Holy Quran, which should be acceptable to the great and learned people who are masters of language and rhetorics (page 8). Though the book is written in Urdu, yet the writer has occasionally employed Arabic also to show his learning. So Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra asked the P i r eleven questions in his letter. Apart from some mystical and theological points he wanted to get full references to the works quoted by him and asked him if he had himself read