An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam — Page 113
113 individually or collectively and even to call to their aid the divines of Arabia and Syria whose mother tongue was Arabic. The magnitude of this challenge may be judged from this aspect that if a Russian who had never visited England or America or any other English-speaking country and had not lived in the society of English-speaking people, nor had studied English at any university, were to write books in excellent English and to challenge English-speaking people to produce the like thereof, either individually or collectively, and no one came forward to take up the challenge, would it not be a matter of wonder or a marvel? Yet, this was the case with the Promised Messiah as. He repeatedly challenged the divines of Arabia, Egypt, Syria and India but no one dared to take up his challenge. Some of them, instead of writing books themselves, started to find faults with his books and while doing so, they committed such glaring blunders that they earned everlasting disgrace. The Promised Messiah as even offered large rewards, sometimes as much as ten thousand rupees, to those who could write books in Arabic as pure and chaste as his, and appointed a very fair and easy mode of winning these rewards but none came forward to claim them, although we find people daily undertake arduous and hazardous tasks for the sake of earning rewards of smaller values. It was all Divine grace as God had taken away their courage and they had lost the fluency of their tongues and the charm of their pens. This miracle of nobody accepting his challenge served as a sign for seekers after truth and a condemnation of the Promised Messiah as ’s enemies. He showed many more miracles of the same kind on different occasions. The magnitude of this miracle is further enhanced by the fact that the Arabic works of the Promised Messiah as were not merely literary gymnastics. They were all full of meaning and each one of them fulfilled a specific purpose in consonance with his true mission. He addressed the Arabic speaking world as a Reformer and brought home