Life of Ahmad — Page 510
PLEADINGS WITH SCRIBES as 510 not only honoured him by His word but also supported his claim with heavenly signs. Let Christians come forward and hold a prayer test. He also claimed that his prophecies and signs were much more weighty and were far more numerous than those of Jesus as and that he would give Rs. 1,000 to any Christian missionary who could prove otherwise. This was reiterated in another leaflet issued on January 28th, 1897. A Muslim mullah of Gurg a o Ĕ , A s ghar Husain by name, filed a suit in court and demanded Rs. 1,000 from Ahmad as saying that he was a Christian in so far as he believed in Jesus as. But the court dismissed the case in August 1899. The answer that the Christians gave Ahmad as was published in the Akhb a r-e-‘ A m , dated 23-2-1897, which was a quotation from the Christian Advocate. It was this: An impostor can also show signs and work miracles. Jesus as restored the dead to life. Ahmad as refuted these two statements by a leaflet issued on February 28th, 1897, in which he pointed out that Jesus as was believed to be Divine only because he worked miracles. If impostors could also show similar signs, Jesus as could not be Divine for that reason. The restoring of the dead to life was a mere assertion, there was no proof or historical evidence. If mere stories were to be believed, there were many such miracles mentioned in the scriptures of other religions and they also should be believed. In that case other people besides Jesus as would have to be taken as gods,