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This great scholar of the Indian sub continent who later became the President of India and the pride of Indian Muslims acknowledged the debt in which Hadhrat Ahmadas had placed. Muslims. He stated: 'We have to acknowledge the value and greatness of this literature from the bottom of our hearts, now that it has done its work. This is because that time cannot be forgotten nor effaced from the mind when Islam was besieged by attacks from all sides, and the Muslims, who had been entrusted the defence of Islam by the Real Defender, as the means of defence in this world of causes and means, were lying flat sobbing in the aftermath of their shortcomings, doing nothing for Islam or not being able to do anything for it. '210. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was not the only Muslim intellectual of his age who witnessed this pitiable state of the ummah on account of the failure of its ulema to rise to the need of the time and accomplish the task of the defence of Islam entrusted to them by God Almighty. He was also not the only person who witnessed the turn in the fortunes of Muslims with the appearance of Hadhrat Ahmadas on the scene. Maulana. Muhammad Sharif of Banglore referred to the attack against. Islam by Hindu and Christian clergy. He stated that while 'the followers of all religions were eager to put out the light of. Islam, Muslims had been most anxious over a long period that of the body of Muslim divines, someone, who may be inspired by God to stand up in support and defence of the faith, should write a book which should be in accord with the needs of the time, and which should set out on the basis of reason and scriptural arguments to prove that the Holy Quran is the Word of God and that the Holy Prophets, was a righteous Prophet of. God. 211 He proceeded to state: 'We are deeply grateful to God that this desire of ours has at 210. Ibid. 211. Sharif, Maulana Muhammad. Manshoor Muhammedi, Banglore, 25 Rajab, 1300 AH, p. 214 170