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229 Questioner: That is all. We will ask no more. His Holiness as : I do not tire. But one ought to be impartial. If I did not possess the fear of God, I would never preach such a message. After this, the questioner departed along with his companions. Afterwards, His Holiness as continued to make a few additional points on this, then all our friends went to their respective places and fell asleep. The following day, His Holiness as set out early in the morning for Qadian, the Abode of Peace. At approximately 11:00 or 11:30 he safely reached the Abode of Peace. 1 19 July 1901 An Argument from the Quran in Support of Prophethood There was mention of Hafiz Muhammad Yusuf Sahib and some of his objec- tions. The Promised Messiah as said: “He rejects everything entirely. The Holy Quran puts forth an argument to establish the truthfulness of the prophethood of Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, in the verse 2 َ لَوْ تَقَوَّل , but Hafiz Sahib rejects this. So what can be done? Allah the Exalted states: O Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), if you had forged a statement and announced it to the people, attributing it to Me, and claimed that they were the words of God, while they were not, you would be destroyed. This is the same argument that Maulvi Aal-e-Hasan Sahib and Maulvi Rahmatullah Sahib presented to the Christians in favour of the truthfulness of the prophet- hood of Muhammad sa , and they were unable to refute this argument. And now, it is this very argument from the Quran which I present in support of the truth- fulness of my own claim. Hafiz Sahib and his associates respond by giving the example of the Emperor Akbar, however, they are completely wrong in doing so. The Arabic word taqawwala means to present a fabricated statement. If the Emperor Akbar did make such a claim, then present a statement of his in which he has expressed that he received such and such revelations from God. Similarly, people make reference to Roshan Din of Jalandhar and others, but they cannot present the so-called false revelations that any of these people have published. If 1 Al-Hakam , vol. 5, no. 28, dated 17 October 1901, pp. 3-6 2 This refers to Surah al-Haqqah, verses 45 to 48: ‘And if he had forged and attributed any sayings to Us, We would surely have seized him by the right hand, and then surely We would have severed his life-artery, and not one of you could have held Us off from him. ’ [Publisher] p. 209