The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 370
370. Essence of Islam-III. I have called them repeatedly and most emphatically to come forward but they have paid no attention to my invitations. In order to expose Sheikh Ṣāḥib's lack of knowledge of Arabic, I announced in Nur-ul-Haq that if he publishes within three months a book matching it in every respect, he would be awarded three thousand rupees in cash, and would, in this easy manner, prove my revelations to be false. Otherwise, he would not only be defeated but would be accounted as having acknowledged the truth of my revelations. But Sheikh Ṣāḥib paid no attention to any of this. Why such indifference? The only reason is that it is beyond his capacity to take up my challenge. . . . God Almighty designed to humiliate this arrogant one and to show him how He helps His servants. . These books, therefore, were written through the capacity bestowed by God and His special help and under His direction. I had fixed the end of June 1894 as the last date for the acceptance of my challenge relating to the matching of Karāmāt-us-Ṣādiqin and Nūr-ul-Haq, and that date is now past. [Sirrul-Khilafah, Rūḥānī Khazā'in vol. 8, pp. 398-400]. If Hadrat Sayyed Maulavi Muḥammad Nadhīr Hussain Şahib or Maulavī Abū Muḥammad Abd-ul-Haq Ṣāḥib consider that I am mistaken in my view on the question of the death of Jesus, and imagine that my viewpoint goes against the Holy Qur'an and Hadīth, it is incumbent upon them that, in order to safeguard the public against being misled by me, they should debate the question with me in this city of Delhi. I propose only three conditions with regard to the holding of the debate. 1. . They should assume the responsibility for persuading the authorities to make arrangements for maintaining law and order . . . since I am only a visi-