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188 that you ask me questions every day, today I will ask you some questions. ‘I will give my car to one who answers my questions correctly’. All of them were greatly surprised and told me to go ahead. I pointed to that ustaz and asked him to answer the question which is, ‘is Muhammad (saw) true prophet of Allah’? Everybody was surprised and said that they were all Muslims and that was their basic tenet. I said it was correct but answer my question and take the car. The ustaz recited the Quranic verse محمــد رســول ہللا. . loudly and said, ‘you see, the verse stated that Muhammad (saw) is the Messenger of Allah’. One of our muallims said, ‘ustaz, will the person who does not believe in the prophet-hood of the Holy Prophet (saw) believe in the Quran? Is a Quranic verse acceptable to a non-Muslim?’ The ustaz was greatly flummoxed and did not know what to say. Everyone was looking at him. All the pomp and show of his knowledge and Arabic language had vanished. After that I asked him, ‘Is Quran the word of God?’ He said, ‘indeed, Allah says in the Holy Quran …’ That brought us back to the same question: How could a person who does not believe in the Holy Prophet (saw), believe in the book brought by him? Ustaz had made a spectacle of himself. He admitted, ‘it is beyond my understanding, you tell us’. I elaborated on the truth of the Holy Prophet (saw) in the light of ‘introduction of the study of the Holy Quran’ by Hadrat Musleh Ma’ud (ra) and put forward the arguments proving the Divine origin of the Holy Quran. The ustaz stayed in the class for a week after that more like a novice. On the last day he said, ‘By God, I learnt nothing but Arabic in Saudi Arabia; I have learnt ABC of religion in this class only. ’ And he performed bai’at.