The Truth Revealed — Page 9
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMADAS 9 TESTIMONY OF AN ARAB SCHOLAR- who is a professor in the literary sciences etc. , in a great city, about the book of this humble one, Ä'ina-e-Kamālāt-e-Islām, & the high degree of eloquence in At-Tabligh My respected brother Maulawi Hafiz Muhammad Yaʻqūb writes from Dehradun that: I believe that you are the Imam of the Age and one sup- ported by Allah. Allah the Exalted has undoubtedly made the ulema your prey or your servants. Your opponent will never succeed. May Allah the Exalted enable me to live and die as one of your servants. O God! Do Thou exactly SO. An Arab scholar who is Syrian is sitting with me at this moment. He is a Sayyed and a great literary figure who has memorised thousands of ancient Arabic verses. We spoke about you. He is an erudite scholar, and I am just an ordinary man, but with regard to the meaning of tawaffi, he could not come up with anything. I showed him an excerpt from your Arabic work Ä'ina-e-Kamālāt-e-Islām. He said, 'By Allah! Such Arabic cannot be composed even by an Arab. How could an Indian possess such ability?' I showed him your Qasidah in the praise of the Holy Prophet, reading which drew tears from his eyes, and he said, 'By Allah, I have never liked the poetry of