Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Parts I & II — Page 81
81 PArT T Wo The latest estimates of Christian conversions given by Father Hacker of Calcutta are worrying, to say the least. He writes that whereas there were only 27,000 Christians in India fifty years ago, the number has now risen to 500,000. !! * [To Allah we belong and to Him shall we return!!] Elders of Islam! Do you await a time of an even greater spread of misguidance? There was a time when Islam was the living illustration of the Quranic verse: ** And look at what is happening today! Do your hearts not bleed at this calamity and are you not overwhelmed by anguish? O men of knowledge and wisdom! It is not so hard to understand that the corruption that has resulted from religious ignorance can only be eliminated through the spread of religious knowledge. It is with this objective in mind that I have written Bar a h i n-e- Ahmadiyya, wherein I have demonstrated the truth of Islam so unequivocally that it will bring final victory to Islam in all the long-standing disputes. Also, remember that the appeals that I have made for assis- tance in its publication are solely for the benefit of all Muslims. It is obvious that a book, whose publication cost runs into thou- sands and whose price has been fixed at less than half of its actual cost—from twenty-five to ten rupees—so as to make it eas- ily accessible to the Muslims, cannot be published without the * A phrase from the h oly Quran which is recited by Muslims to express their deepest pain. [Publishers] ** [ Men] entering the religion of Allah in troops. S u rah an-Na s r, 110:3 [Publishers]