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THE QURANIC CRITERION OF MUBAHALA t. 1152. Finally, Abdul Hafeez invites Ahmadi Muslims that if they are 'right then they should come forward and lay down their lives for the honour of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas whom they consider a prophet. 1152 One is rather amazed that he should have missed the fact that Ahmadi Muslims have already laid their lives down with the Mubahala and invoked the curse of Allah upon themselves if they be liars on eight occasions in the context of the challenge issued by their Caliph, Hadhrat Mirza. Tahir Ahmaday at London on 10th of June 1988. 153 What remains now is that adversaries like Abdul Hafeez accept this challenge in the spirit in which it has been issued and come in the field by assenting to it and not making excuses. But, people like him whose only purpose in being involved in this controversy is to gain fame for themselves will never have the courage to accept the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's invitation to a Mubahala. . Hence, he makes an excuse: 'The method you have adopted for Mubahilla is wrong because by not fixing the time and the place and adopting a method of cursing while sitting at home, you have openly disregarded the Quranic law. '154. If this lame excuse is not a ploy to avoid being a party to the. Mubahala, then is Abdul Hafeez's insistence to his own four point challenge within the realm of the Quranic law? 155 Did. Hadhrat Muhammad sa call upon the Christians of Najran to 'prove that the first 40 years of the life of their prophet resembled any prophet' as demanded by the author of Two in. One? 1156 Did he ask his adversaries to 'dig open the graves of their prophets and shaheeds to prove to the world that these are still fresh and appear alive and that their eyes are still open 152. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One, p. 6 153. Ahmadiyya Muslim Association. Mubahala, Urdu ed. , pp. 5/7 154. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One, p. 35 51 155. Ibid. , p. 19 156. Ibid.