The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 384
384. Essence of Islam-III. Gentlemen! Listen carefully to what I have to say. I state on oath, in the name of Allah the Glorious, that if Ḥaḍrat. Maulavi Muḥammad Hussain Ṣāḥib would address himself to God Almighty for forty days in opposition to me, and would manifest such heavenly signs or such realities of the unseen as I might manifest, I would agree that he may slay me with the weapon of his choice and mulct me in such sum as he might determine. . A Warner came to the world and the world did not accept him; but God will accept him and will establish his truth with powerful assaults. [Al-Haq, Mubāḥatha Ludhiāna, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 4, p. 124]. I announce in the name of Him in whose hand lies my life, that if you people clear your minds and wish to see another Divine sign, then the All-Powerful God, without being subject to your demand, has the power to manifest a sign out of His own will and authority. I am certain that if you repent sincerely, and demand a sign from me and promise God that if some extraordinary sign, which is beyond human power, is manifested, you will discard all ill-will and rancour, and, seeking only the pleasure of. God, will make the pledge of allegiance to me, surely. God Almighty will manifest some sign, for He is Merciful and Beneficent. But I do not have the choice to appoint two or three days for the manifestation of a sign or to follow your desires. It is at the choice of God Almighty to appoint whatever date pleases Him. . . . . For the adoption of this method it will be necessary that at least forty leading Maulavīs like Maulavi Muḥammad. Hussain Ṣāḥib of Batāla, Maulavi Nadhīr Hussain Ṣāḥib of Delhi, Maulavi ‘Abdul Jabbār Ṣāḥib of Ghaznī, now of Amritsar, Maulavi Rashid Aḥmad Ṣāḥib of Ghangoha,