The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 369
Repeated Challenges 369 Thanā'ullāh Şahib and his friends will no longer have to invent lies against me, and they will achieve an easy vic- tory. Failing this, they will no longer have any justifica- tion for calling me false or denying my signs. I call heaven and earth to witness that I place my reliance from today onwards on this sign. If my claim is true, and God Almighty knows that it is true, it will not be possible for Maulavi Thanā'ullāh, or any other Maulavī associ- ated with him, to compose an ode and an Urdu writing like mine within five days, as God Almighty will break their pens and will make their minds dull. Maulavī Thanā'ullāh cannot claim that I composed this ode in ad- vance, since it is about the debate which was held at Mud. If I had composed it in advance, then they must ac- knowledge that I possess knowledge of the unseen, which would still constitute a sign. So they have no way of escape now. Today the revelation has been fulfilled in which God said: The affairs decreed by the All-Powerful God have been manifested; Those who issued declarations of kufr have been appre- hended. [I'jāz-e-Ahmadī, Rūķānī Khazā'in, vol. 19, pp. 145-148] Is it not a Divine sign that the one concerning whom it was said that he was an ignoramus and did not know a single rule of grammar, calls upon all the Maulavīs who denounce him as a disbeliever to compete with him in writing a commentary for which he would award them a thousand rupees, and to write a book matching his book Nur-ul-Haq for which he is prepared to deposit five thou- sand rupees in advance to be awarded to them; and not one of them has the courage to come forward and accept his challenge. . . .