The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 399
Repeated Challenges. Announcement for a Forty Day Prayer Vigil 251 گرچه هر کس زره لاف بیانے دارد صادق آنست که از صدق نشانی دارد 399. Those who have read my previous announcements will be aware of my announcement that if a respectable Āryā gentleman, Christian minister or some other gentleman out of the opponents of Islām were to come and stay with me at Qādiān for one year, and did not witness any heavenly sign during that time, I would pay him two thousand four hundred rupees by way of compensation. . I despatched this offer by registered post to all the principal Christian ministers and leading Āryā gentlemen, but none of them came to Qādiān. In the case of Munshi. Inderman Ṣāḥib, I sent that amount in cash to Lahore to satisfy him that the money would be available for the award, but he slipped away to Faridkot. One gentleman by the name of Lekh Rām of Peshawar did come to. Qādiān, and he was repeatedly invited to stay here for one year on payment of his expenses at the rate of twice the salary which he received when he was a government servant at Peshawar; and in the end it was even suggested that if he could not stay at Qādiān for a whole year he should at least stay for forty days. He rejected both propositions, and yet made several false allegations in his announcements. In Surmah Chashm-e-Āryā, he has again been invited to come and stay at Qādiān for forty days. . Everyone can read it there. . The the purpose of this announcement is to carry the 251. Anyone can issue a statement by way of boasting,. But truthful is the one who produces a true sign. [Publisher]