The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 361
Repeated Challenges 361 with me, and they will see that the sweetness, eloquence and mastery of Arabic that characterises my composition cannot be equalled by them, their friends, their teachers or their revered ones. After receiving this revelation, I wrote a commentary on some Sūrahs and passages of the. Holy Qur'an and compiled several books in fluent Arabic, and invited my opponents to compete with me and offered them large sums of money as award in case of their success. The leaders among them, like Miāń Nadhir. Hussain of Delhi and Abū Sa'īd Muḥammad Hussain of. Batāla, who is the editor of Isha'at-us-Sunnah, were repeatedly invited that if they claimed to possess some knowledge of the Holy Qur'an or had any proficiency in. Arabic or if they considered me false in respect of my claim of being the Promised Messiah, they should put forth matching instances of the verities and insights which I have presented fluently in these books claiming that they are beyond human capacity and constitute the signs of God Almighty. But they failed altogether to take up my challenge. Neither of them set forth a matching instance of the verities and insights which I had described in my commentaries on some of the passages and verses of the Holy Qur'ān, nor was any of them able to compose even two lines in Arabic like the books that I had published in eloquent Arabic. Anyone who has read my books Nür-ul-Haq, Karāmāt-us-Sadiqin, Sirr-ulKhilafah, Itmām-ul-Hujjah, etc, and the Arabic portions of Anjām-i-Atham and Najm-ul-Hudā, will have clearly recognized their high literary standard, both in prose and poetry; and will also have observed how forcefully I have challenged all opposing divines that if they laid claim to some knowledge of the Holy Qur'ān and have any degree of proficiency in Arabic, they should produce a match of