The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 392
392 Essence of Islam-III lowers of such religions as deny the truth of the Holy Qur'an and the Holy Prophet Muhammad, the Cho- sen One (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. ) To win the award, a candidate should set forth from the revealed book in which he believes, all the argu- ments and proofs which we have entered in this book in support of the truth of the Holy Qur'an and the Seal of the Prophets (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), all of which are derived from the Holy Qur'an itself. If he is unable to set out an equal num- ber of arguments and proofs from the revealed book of his religion, he should set out at least one half or one third or one quarter or one fifth of them. Should he be unable to set out anything at all matching our arguments and proofs he should refute our arguments and proofs one by one. Then on the certification of three just minded persons, agreed to by the parties, that the conditions set out above have been fulfilled, I shall, without hesitation, transfer to the successful candidate my property worth ten thousand rupees. It must, however, be made clear that if any of the oppo- nents is unable to set out the required number of ar- guments and proofs from the revealed book in which he believes, or is unable to offer at least one fifth of the arguments and proofs, as required in the an- nouncement, he would have to declare in writing that he is unable to do so because of the imperfection or unreasonableness of that book. If he sets out the re- quired arguments and proofs from that revealed book numbering one fifth of our arguments and proofs, he would have to set out one half, one third, one quarter or one fifth of each of type of argument that we have set out and not merely one half, one third, one fourth,