The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 436
436. Essence of Islam-III commissioned to enter into a Mubahalah with those who claim to be Muftīs and Maulavīs and Muḥaddathīn who have sons and wives and have led the campaign denouncing me as a disbeliever. I have been directed that. I should set forth before them, in a public meeting, a detailed explanation of my claim and should refute all the objections and doubts which disturb their minds. If they still do not desist from denouncing me as a disbeliever, I shall call them to a Mubahalah. [Ā'ina-e-Kamālāt-e-Islām, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 5, pp. 256-257]. I wish to inform all the Maulavis and Muftīs who denounce me as a disbeliever because of minor differences or through their own ignorance, that God. Almighty has commissioned me and I invite them to a. Mubahalah in the following terms. I will first set before you, in a meeting called for the purpose of Mubahalah, the reasons in support of my doctrines derived from the. Holy Qur'an and Aḥādīth. If you still persist in denouncing me as a disbeliever, I shall challenge you to a. Mubahalah in the same meeting. My first addressee is. Miāń Nadhir Hussain of Delhi; should he decline my invitation, my next addressee would be Sheikh. Muḥammad Hussain of Batāla, and should he also decline, all those Maulavīs would be my addressees who denounce me as a disbeliever and occupy a leading position among the Muslims. I grant all these gentlemen a period of four months from today, 10th December 1892, within which to enter into a Mubahalah with me under the conditions set out above. If they fail to do so and persist in denouncing me, they will be held responsible before God. I had desired in this book to refute all the false charges which they have levelled against me as the basis for denouncing me as a