Life of Ahmad — Page 789
as A FALSE MOSES 789 Bakhsh ra , Hakim Il a h i Bakhsh ra , Mistr i Chir a gh D i n ra , Ghulam Muhammad ra , Qu t bud-D i n Misgar ra , Muhammad Y u suf Habibullah ra , Wal i Muhammad ra and Nab i Bakhsh ra. When Ahmad as came to know of this he issued a tract in which he offered to give Rs. 500 as a reward to anyone who could prove from history that any impostor had lived for so long a time. He challenged all the mullahs, including Il a h i Bakhsh and his friends, on the point, and gave them two weeks in which to do it. The Holy Prophet as continued to receive revelations from God for 23 years; and the Holy Quran says that if he had been an impostor God would have surely destroyed him (See Al- Ha qqah 69:46,47). If an impostor were allowed to manufacture revelations for so long a time, there would be no force left in the Quranic argument. The late Maulaw i s Ra h matullah and Sayyid Al-Hasan had put forward the same argument before the Rev. Mr. Pfander, the author of M i z a nul H aq , and the Christian missionary could not, in spite of all his vast resources, find out any such instance to refute the argument. The time limit fixed by Ahmad as expired and nobody came forward to claim the reward. On February 8th, 1901, however, a certain Abu Is ha q Muhammad D i n of Amritsar put forward the names of Ubaidulla (296 A. H) and Abdul Mu’min (358 A. H. ) of Africa, Hasan bin S abb a h, the Mughal King Akbar, Ibn H u d, Muhammad Ali Bab. etc. , but students of history know that these people, in spite of their false