Some Hidden Pearls — Page 72
wrote and published a number of books in this language, of which the literary quality is wonderful and unique, coming as it did from a writer for whom Arabic was a foreign language. In fact in compliance with a divine hint, he boldly threw out a challenge to the Ulama not only in India but in Arabia, Egypt, Palestine and Syria, that in case they had doubts in regard to the divine origin of his mission, and in regard to the superhuman succour from. Allah which stood at his back in the furtherance of this mission-then, leaving aside rational arguments for a moment, they could take a short cut to a decision, by producing in Arabic, their own mother tongue, literature in support of Islam, which should eclipse the literature produced by him in this most important field-literature which should not only be excellent and impressive from the literary quality of the production, but also on the basis of a loftiness of the contents and a richness of meaning. But the Ulama, neither in. India, nor in Arab countries, had the 72