The Miracle of Ahmad — Page 171
171 before it, then I should be acknowledged as a knower of the unseen, who spoke about all these incidents in advance. In short, this constitutes a grand Sign and an easy method to decide the matter. What also has to be remembered, as I have just mentioned, is that the entire period of time mentioned above was not spent on the composition of the qa si dah alone; rather, a part of the time was also spent on the Urdu treatise attached to this qa si dah. Hence, the two together constitute a Sign from Almighty God. To compete with me in this and to acquire the cash prize worth 10,000 rupees, the necessary condition would be that the person who pens [a qa si dah ] in response to the one writ - ten by me should pen the refutation of the Urdu treatise as well, so as to disprove my arguments. In addition, the words of such an essay should not be less than the words of my treatise. And, if one fails to fulfil one of the two conditions, he will be considered to have failed to fulfil both. I do not want to impose on my oppo - nents the hardship that I myself have not undergone. Evidently, the Urdu part, too, deals with the same debate and responds to the allegations made by Maulaw i Sanaullah. Under these circumstances, who can allege that the Urdu essay had been written in advance? It is, therefore, my right to demand from the people who consider these writings of mine to be impos - ture on the part of man, and thus deny their miraculousness, that they too should come up with a parallel to those writings in as extraordinarily small an amount of time as has been spent on the composition of the Urdu essay and the qa si dah by me. I hereby swear by Almighty God that if they manage to write, in as little time as I have spent on the composition of the Urdu essay and the qa si dah, an essay in Urdu that answers all my objections and