Early Writings — Page 5
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD (AS) 5 Here, I would like to specifically request Pundit Kharak Singh Sahib, who claims that he can refute my arguments in a matter of minutes, to demonstrate his intellectual prowess before the learned and celebrated scholars of the Christian and Brahmu Samaj faiths and show the excellences hidden in his distinguished personality. Otherwise, mere boasting before the ignorant masses is of no value. I would now like to produce below the essay I had promised to write: The following is an essay in refutation of reincarnation and a comparison between the Vedas and the Quran. It seeks a response from the learned scholars of the Arya Samaj, such as Pundit Kharak Singh Sahib; Swami Pundit Dayanand Sahib; Bawa Narayan Singh Sahib; Munshi Jiwandas Sahib; Munshi Kanahya Lal Sahib; Munshi Bakhtawar Singh Sahib—Editor Arya Darpan; Babu Sarda Prashad Sahib; Munshi Sharampat Sahib-Secretary Arya Samaj Qadian and Munshi Inderman Sahib. A reward of 500 rupees is hereby promised to the winner of this debate. The first principle of the Arya Samaj on which the belief of rein- carnation is based is that the world was not created by anyone: and that all souls are as ancient and eternal as Parameshvara [God] Himself, rather all souls are their own Parameshvara. In my view, this principle is false and to build the edifice of reincarnation on it would be to erect a weak building on a weak foundation. The Holy Quran-on which the truth of Islam is entirely based and the arguments of which I have promised to present as a rebuttal to the arguments of the Vedas and to draw