The Reality of Khilafah — Page 146
SIRRUL-KHILAFAH— 146 However, his prejudice was so great that this Divine voice did not reach his ears and he was intent on convincing people that I did not know a word of Arabic. However, he then fell victim to his own scheme in keeping with the Divine revelation that Allah would humiliate him who tried to humiliate me. Praise be to God! How He stands in support of His helpless servants! Yet, people do not fear Him! Is it not a sign from God that the very person of whom it was said that he is ignorant and does not know a word of Arabic is now openly challenging all the so-called maulaw i s , who excom- municated him, to write a commentary on the Holy Quran in response to his own and receive a reward of 1,000 rupees, or to write one in response to N u rul- H aqq and receive 5,000 rupees, and yet not one of them has come forward? Is this your knowledge and scholarship on the basis of which you label me an apostate? Tell me, O Sheikh, whether or not the prophecy has been ful- filled. The whole world knows that it was for the express purpose of exposing the knowledge of the Sheikh and the authenticity of those who have written edicts of heresy against me that I wrote the books Kar a m a tu s - Sa diq i n and N u rul- H aqq in Arabic, and I made an open challenge that anyone who could write a book that could compete with Kar a m a tu s - Sa diq i n would receive a reward of 1,000 rupees, and that anyone who wrote a book that could compete with N u rul- H aqq would receive 5,000 rupees, but they failed to take up the challenge until the deadline I had set— the end of June 1894 —had passed. The Sheikh’s silence proved not only that he is completely devoid of any knowledge of Arabic but also that he is a first-class liar and fabricator and a person without shame. Having clearly written in his published announcements