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the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to come forward and bring Hadhrat. Ahmadas: 'who has challenged us to a mubahilah in his book Anjam Athim and compel him to confront me, for so long as there is no final decision with a prophet, nothing can bind all his followers. "5. When Hadhrat Ahmadas read this second challenge, he directed the editor of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's journal, Badr, to announce: 'In reply to this challenge, I wish to convey to Maulvi Sanaullah Saheb the good news that Hadhrat Mirza Sahebas has accepted his challenge. He should therefore solemnly declare that Hadhrat. Ahmadas has fabricated his claim. He should then pray that if he,. Maulvi Sanaullah, has lied in this utterance, then the curse of God shall befall the liar. '6. But Sanaullah, as has been shown earlier, had admitted that he dared not enter into such a controversy. Hence, he shifted his position once again and publicly declared: 'I have not challenged you to a mubahilah. I have only declared my willingness to take an oath but you can call it a mubahilah whereas a mubahilah involves the parties taking an oath in a contest against each other. I have declared my readiness to take an oath and have not issued a challenge to a mubahilah. Taking a unilateral oath is one thing and mubahilah is quite another. ". What Maulvi Sanaullah was suggesting here was that he had not intented to invite Hadhrat Ahmadas to curse the Maulvi while he himself, was quite prepared to unilaterally invoke such a curse upon Hadhrat. Ahmadas. However, this retreat by Sanaullah gave evidence that the. Maulvi had, once again, shifted from his original position where he had quite categorically demanded that Hadhrat Ahmadas be confronted 5. Ahle Hadees: 29th March, 1907, pg 10 7. Ahle Hadees, 19th April, 1907 26 6. Badr: 4th April, 1907