Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 32
32 AHMADIYY AT lights up the true way. It is a treasury of truth, it is a mine of guidance, it acts as lightning on the stores of the enemy and burns up all his arguments. For the Muslims it is a strong support for the Holy Book and is a bright proof of the 'Mother of the Book. It has unsettled and disturbed every enemy of religion. A few minor Muslim divines were critical of parts of the book and merely betrayed their own lack of knowledge by giving expression to their critical views. No one paid any serious attention to them. But the book aroused great indignation in certain non- Muslim sections. They expressed themselves in defamatory and contemptuous language against the author and announced in indignant terms their intention of writing a refutation of the book. But their indignation subsided fairly quickly. They were prodded by the author of the book in an announcement which was couched in these terms: I put all these gentlemen on oath that they should not delay for one moment in entering the lists against me. Let them put on the guise of Plato, Aristotle and Bacon. Let them supplicate their false deities, and then see whether our God is proved Supreme or their false deities. Despite the original challenge in the first part of Braheen Ahmadiyya J and this reminder in the second part, no one of any standing undertook a refutation of the book. Here and there a self-styled leader among the Hindus or the Christians announced his intention of taking up the challenge of the author but took no step in pursuit of that objective. Only one notoriously foul-mouthed Arya Samajist, of the name ofPandit Lekh Ram, published a collection of absurdi- ties under the name of Refutation of Braheen Ahmadiyya) the senselessness of which was speedily exposed by Maulvi Hakim Nooruddin Sahib (may Allah be pleased with him) in his book designated Confirmation of Braheen Ahmadiyya. This was, however, only the be'ginning of the mischief of Pandit Lekh Ram to whose tragic end we shall revert later.