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! 28 service to Islam. He presented his pray ers to the court of Allah in these words: I cannot bear to see the weakness of the faith of Muhammad (sa) O my King! Make me victorious and fruitful [in my endeavors]. He didn’t only pray to Allah for the revival of Islam but truly sacrificed his body, mind and wealth for this cause. It is important to mention in this regard that in this time of utmost darkness, the Promised Messiah (as) wrote his magnum opus, Ba rahin - e - Ahmadiyya (“Arguments in support of the Holy Qur’an and Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa)”) , and challenged the entire religious world and offered them his property worth 10,000 rupees. Hadrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad (ra) mentions this in his book, ‘ Hayate Tayyiba’ , in these words: “In such conditions, a warrior of God stood up from the unknown hamlet of Qadian. He wrote an unprecedented book on the greatness of the Holy Quran, truthfulness of the Holy Prophet (sa), and need for revelation and its reality which not only flabbergasted the enemies of the Islam but also gave strength to the Muslims of Ind ia. The first part of this book was published in 1880. In this part, he challenged all the leaders of various different faiths to present half or even one - third, or even one - fourth of the arguments from their holy books which he has presented in this book from the Holy Quran about the truthfulness of the Holy Prophet (sa) and the reality of the Holy Quran. He even challenged that if you cannot bring similar arguments from your holy books then at the least you can rebut my arguments one by one. He challenged that if anyone was able to do any of these two things, he will give his property worth 10,000 rupees to that person. But the condition