Favours of the Gracious God — Page 21
21 HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS possibly raise by way of deceitful trickery. For instance, to evade accountability, an Arya opponent can say that the claim that Arabic is unmatched with regards to these five qualities is unsupported by evidence, because such a claim can only be true if the claimant was fully adept in Sanskrit. But now, since there is no such level of proficiency in Sanskrit, such a claim is biased and it is possible, upon further research, for such claim to be proven wrong. Although I have already answered this futile objection, that my research is the research conducted by a whole group which includes, among others, people proficient in Sanskrit, but now, for conclusively discharging the burden of proof, I offer such a method of resolving this matter which nobody can elude; being that if I am proven false in the claim that Arabic uniquely possesses those five qualities which I have written about, and if a scholar of Sanskrit, or anyone else, can successfully prove that their language too equally partakes, alongside Arabic, in these qualities, or is superior to it, then I make a definitive and decisive promise to immediately pay a sum of 5, 000 rupees to such a person. Let it be remembered that our promise of a reward is not similar to the boastful advertisements of ordinary people, so let not anyone think that this is just a verbal ploy and that no one shall