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PROPHECY CONCERNING ATHIM. Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's as other prophecy which Abdul. Hafeez argues was not fulfilled concerns an apostate from Islam,. Padre Abdullah Athim. 56 In early 1893 CE, a Christian missionary,. Rev. Henry Martin Clark wrote a letter to a Muslim leader of. Jandiala, Muhammad Baksh Phanda, suggesting that some decisive action be taken to arrange a public debate between the representatives of Christianity and Islam so that a 'final decision could be taken on the relative merits of the two faiths and it might he determined which of them was true. ' Hadhrat Ahmadas had, by this time, already routed many a Christian challenge to. Islam and he had been publicly acknowledged the champion of the faith. A Muslim newspaper of Amritsar stated in relation to. Hadhrat Ahmad's as excellent defence of Islam: 'The excellent merits and high spiritual accomplishment of. Mirza Sahib are too great for our humble observations. The cogent reasons and brilliant arguments he has brought forth in support of Islam and Truth in so beautiful a manner show beyond a shadow of doubt that he has excelled the writings of the old and the new Ulama in eloquence and presentation. '57. It was, therefore not surprising that Muhammad Baksh Phanda should forward Rev. Clarke's invitation to Hadhrat Ahmad as with a request that he might like to represent Islam in the proposed debate and since the Christian missionaries were, at that point in time, engaged in a wide scale attack against Islam; its noble Prophet, Hadhrat Muhammad Mustaphasa and its sacred Scripture, the Glorious Quran, Hadhrat Ahmad as considered this invitation to publicly establish the superiority of. Islam, a God sent opportunity. Hence, he immediately assented to the proposal and informed the Muslim leadership of Jandiala 56. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One, p. 42 57. Riyaz Hind, Amritsar, 1 March, 1886 293