The Reality of Khilafah — Page 147
An Announcement for Public Awareness 147 regarding me that I was ignorant of Arabic, it was incumbent upon him to demonstrate his own knowledge in the face of my challenge; instead, he fell silent as if he did not even exist. Consider how specifically I invited him to the challenge and the ways in which I tried to rouse his sense of honour, but he would not even lift an eyebrow. It was with the sole purpose of settling the matter of the Sheikh’s knowledge of Arabic that I published an announcement along with my book N u rul- H aqq in which I challenged the Sheikh that if he could write and publish a book of a similar size that could be comparable to N u rul- H aqq in terms of its eloquence and verities and wisdom, he would be entitled to a prize of 3,000 rupees, not to mention that it would be an easy way for him to prove the falseness of my revelation and save him thousands of curses. On the other hand, if he failed to do so, he would not only be defeated but would be the person in whom the prophecy would be fulfilled. The Sheikh, however, did not care for any of these things and his sense of honour was not roused in the least. Why so? Because the contest was beyond his capability; hence, he was forced to accept his disgrace by refusing to take up the challenge. This establishes the truth of the revelation: َ َانَتَك ه ن ْ اَرَاد َ اِ َّ اِنّی ْ مُھِیْن ٌ م I shall humiliate him who designs to humiliate you. He stood on pulpits on hundreds of occasions and before hun- dreds of people and said of me that I was an ignorant man with no knowledge of Arabic and that I was a liar and a dajj a l [deceiver]. He went further and wrote hundreds of letters to this effect and had them published in magazines until he had instilled in the