The Ocean of Light — Page 73
73 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS abuse and name calling of the worst kind. I challenged them to step into the field with their cavalry and counter me, and question me regarding whatever doubts they had in their hearts and whatever opinions they entertained about me. However, they did not step out of their doors and did not leave their home. It would have been better for them, that at the time this debate was announced, their faces lit up and their foreheads brightened hurrying towards me, so that they could render me speechless in the face of arguments from the Holy Quran and Sunnah. Without a doubt, truth can give courage even to an apprehensive heart and can open closed doors. Whereas, since their speech was based on falsehood, they ran away with their staves and their ropes. 1 I offered to debate them on the basis of the Quran and the Sunnah; or if this 1 The simile of “staves and ropes” presented here is in reference to the magicians of the Pharaoh who confronted Prophet Mo- ses as with what appeared to be snakes, but was nothing more than ropes. [Publisher]