The Conclusive Argument

by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

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The Conclusive Argument — Page 36

36 after submitting the amount. I entrust this matter to you and grant you complete authority over its particulars. Even if you appoint two dishonest arbitra- tors, I will accept them whole- heartedly and will overlook their falsehood and lies. However, I will put both arbitrators under God Almighty’s oath, requiring them to swear in public that they have spoken the truth. Then I will grant them respite for one year. During that period, I will engage in offering supplications before God, the All-Aware, the All-Knowing. And if during this period a manifest Sign of the acceptance of prayer is not shown, then God Almighty is my Witness that I will, without any doubt or misgiving, admit your truthfulness and count you among the truthful. I wonder why you took to writing this book and what novel and extraordinary things you have written in it. [The truth is that] you have merely collected فال بد من الحَكمَین بعد جمع العَین. ووكلنا إلیك هذا الخَطبَ، ولك كل ما تختار الیابس أو َ حَكَمَین جعلت فإن الرطبَ، كاذبَین، فنقبلهما بالرأس والعین، ّٰ وال ننظر إلی الكذب والمَین، بید أننا نستفسرهما بیمین الل ذي الجالل، وعلیهما أن یحلفوا إظهارًا لصدق المقال، ثم نمهلهما إلی عام، ونمد ّ ید المسألة إلی ر عالم، فإن لم تتبین إلی تلك ی ّٰ خب المدّة أمارة االستجابة، فنُشهد الل انّا نُقر ّ بصدقك من دون االسترابة، ونحسبك من الصادقین. ف ی ت َ لتأل ی وأعجبني لِم َ تصدّ الكتاب، وأى ّ أمر كتبت َ كالنادر العجاب، بل جمعت َ فضلة أهل