An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam — Page 195
195 41 days, then if he survives I will burn all my books and will seek repentance on their hands, this will settle daily bickering between me and them and if they do not advance to accept the challenge then their falsehood would be exposed to public. He allowed them to appoint a professor of Arabic to act as a judge and let him make his award under solemn oath. The Promised Messiah as said if the adjudicator declared that the work of his opponents was superior to his, he would pray to God and if the judge was not then overtaken by the wrath of God within a period of 41 days, he would burn all his books and stand condemned. But no one had the courage to accept this daring challenge. In this book, which bore the title of H ujjatull a h , the Promised Messiah as spoke of the various signs which God had shown in his favour. He also pointed out the error of his Shia opponents. In a graphic and eloquent manner he explained that the Shia beliefs were not right, because the Caliphs, Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra , Hadrat ‘Umar and Hadrat ‘Uthm a n, were the rightful Caliphs and Hadrat ‘Al i had acknowledged them so.