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XX Ā'ĪNA-E-KAMĀLĀT-E-ISLĀM―DĀFI‘UL-WASĀWIS Mission of the Promised Messiah The Promised Messiah summarizes his purpose and mission as follows: Almighty God, finding this age immersed in darkness, neglect, kufr [disbelief] and shirk [polytheism]; and seeing the decline of faith, sincerity, truth, and righteousness, has sent me so that He may re-establish the truth in the world—in knowledge, practice, morals, and creed. And so that He may safeguard Islam from the attacks of people who-under the cloaks of phi- losophy, naturalism, heresy, shirk and atheism-wish to inflict some harm upon this Divine garden. (See p. 273) Accordingly, the Promised Messiah as challenges all seekers of truth- be they Christian, Hindu, Jew or Muslim-to show any Sign of the , the reward for which he would present all his immovable prop- erty valued at approximately 10,000 rupees. (See p. 316) unseen, The Challenge of Science The Promised Messiah as also addresses Muslims who are overly influ- enced by Western philosophy and modern science. In particular, Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan, despite his passion to serve the interests of Islam, denied fundamental aspects of Islam to harmonize the Faith with con- temporary science and philosophy. The Promised Messiah as calls him out, saying: The egregious error which Sayyed ŞṢāḥib has committed is that he accepts modern philosophy to be so irrefutable and certain as if it is beyond any error, whereas this new philosophy and sci- ence is just as vulnerable as the errors which are being exposed of the former philosophy or science. . . . He accredited the new