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It was a result of this superb understanding of religious literature that Hadhrat Ahmadas was able to produce what the. Maulana defined as 'voluminous books in support of Islam. 1205. He then proceeded to state that: 'The state of ecstasy created by reading his invaluable books which were written to counter other religions and to uphold. Islam, still has not faded. His Braheen e Ahmadiyya overawed the non Muslims and raised the spirits of Islam. He presented to the world the captivating picture of religion, cleansed the blots and dust that had collected upon it as a result of superstitions and the natural weakness of the ignorant, In short, this book raised a loud echo in the world, at least within. India, which is still reverberating in our ears. 1206. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, one of the greatest scholars the sub continent of India has ever produced was so impressed by. Hadhrat Ahmad's as scholarship that he considered him a: 'very great man, whose pen was a magic wand and whose tongue spell binding; whose brain was a complex of wonders; whose eyes could revive the dying and whose call aroused those in the graves; whose fingers held the wires of revolution and whose fists were electric batteries; who for thirty years was an earthquake and typhoon for the religious world and who, like the trumpet of Doomsday, awakened those lost in the slumber of life. 1207. The Maulana found himself obliged to hold Hadhrat Ahmadass in such high regard despite 'strong differences in respect of some of his claims 208 because he realised that: 'The literature produced by Mirza Sahib in his confrontation with the Christians and the Aryas had received the seal of general approval. 1209 205. Ibid. 208. Ibid. 206. Ibid. 207. Azad, Maulana Abul Kalam. Vakeel, Amritsar, 1908 209. Ibid. 169