Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page 134
Khalifatul Masih I ra Sends Scholars to Spread the Message of Islam 133 know the English language and they strictly follow the tenets of Islam, and have a great regard for the Jama ‘ at. " Later on, he spoke very highly of Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra and of his knowledge and his vast command on matters of religion and expressed a great wish to meet with him. In May 1911, Hadhrat Maulavi Ghulam Rasool Raajeki ra went with an Ahmadi delegation to participate in a debate in Mangat Oonchay (Gujranwala). The other party was led by Maulavi Mir Ibrahim Sialkoti. The subject of the debate was the death of Jesus Christ, Khatme Nubuwwat and the truth of the Promised Messiah as. It was a fiery debate; thousands of people listened to it and, as a result of this debate, hundreds of people joined Ahmadiyyat. In the same year, in Monghir, a large-scale debate was organized and about two hundred opponents joined hands to defeat the Ahmadiyya team. These scholars were reinforced by a professor of Arabic, Maulavi Abdul Wahhaab of Calcutta College and Maulavi Ibrahim Sialkoti, who was greatly bruised at the hand of Hadhrat Maulavi Ghulam Rasool Raajeki ra at the Oonchay Mangat encounter. The other party was sure that as they had brought the "big guns" and faced with such scholarship of the Arabic language, the Ahmadiyya team would desert the field. The attendance of this debate was about fifteen thousand. Hadhrat Maulavi Ghulam Rasool Raajeki ra stole the thunder of the show, when he stood up to deliver the counter to the Arabic professor in high flown Arabic. Once he started delivering his fiery Arabic speech, the other party took to their heels, and during the debate, a party of educated Muslims joined the Ahmadiyya Movement on the spot. The Jama ‘ at Islamia held another conference in the City of Mysore, and with the permission of Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra , a high-powered delegation of Ahmadis participated in it. This time, the opponents had mobilized the "top guns" of the Muslim scholars and Syed Suleman Nadvi and Maulana Shaukat Ali headed their delegation. Maulana Suleman Nadvi, a scholar of