A Present to Kings — Page 67
( 67 ). It is true that instead of accepting the challenge the. Ulemas left no stone unturned in the way of abusing the author and pronounced the verdict of heresy against him, and in the manner of the enemies of Islam endeavoured to pick out grammatical errors in his writings. But when similar examples were pointed out to them in the Holy Quran and the Hadis, they deigned to give no reply. And inspite of every thing that could be done to rouse them, not one of them has had the courage to produce even a small tract to rival any of the works of the claimant, and though there is now present in Hindustan a vast number of Ulemas and great are their literary pretensions, yet in this matter, they have obviously been denuded of all their boasted learning. Some there were, who said that the Promised Messiah had an Arab in his secret employment, who wrote the books for him, but when they were told that they too might requisition the help of all the learned men of Arabia,. Egypt and Syria and combinedly meet the challenge, they failed still to meet the same. The fact is that these are the very same objections which the Arabs took to the Holy Quran, viz. , that it was not a revelation, but the work of some man endowed with great eloquence who in secret tutored Muhammad (peace be on him), and this is the objection which the. Christians take to the Holy Quran even to this day. If then such an objection has any value, it will apply equally to the. Holy Prophet and to the Promised Messiah, and fortunate indeed is the man who in any matter may be a participant with the Holy Prophet (peace be on him). In short, the Arabic works by the Promised Messiah stand unequalled till this day and no one has had the power to produce the like of them. . Tims, as it is one of the proofs of the truth of the Holy Quran that no man has the power to produce its like, even so it is one of the proofs of the truth of the Promised Messiah that men are powerless to produce the like of his Arabic writings. As regards the question why the Promised Messiah was granted the. Bane miracle as was given to the Holy Prophet (peace be on him), the answer is that since the Promised Messiah was to