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28 HAZRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD he will be hurled into the flames of Hell. He then jeeringly writes at the end: 'All these revelations have been fulfilled, only the mar- riage remains. ' Then, in the third announcement he derisively writes: 'I have heard that this person has been struck down by the plague and dogs have devoured his flesh. Then, in the issue of July 1897 he has drawn a caricature of me in the form of a bear. Aside from this, in the 1898 issues of Ishaat-us-Sunnah, Muhammad Husain has repeatedly alleged that I am ill-mannered, malevolent towards the British government, and bloodthirsty. So when the injustice perpetrated by Muhammad Husain and his people, such as Muhammad Bakhsh Jafar Zatalli and others, crossed all bounds and I was treated with such contempt that every possible word of abuse was spewed out at me, and after numerous challenges for a prayer-duel were sent to me, I finally published an announcement on 21 November 1898, with the sole purpose of beseeching God Almighty to humiliate whosoever between us was a liar. Thereafter, I published a further clarification to this announcement on 30 November 1898. Even after my announce- ment of 21 November 1898, Muhammad Husain sought to defame me in countless places. He misrepresented my announcement of 21 November 1898 to make it seem as if I had threatened to mur- der him, despite the fact that I had thrice elucidated in this very announcement that I merely sought the humiliation of whosoever of the two of us was a liar. When I came to know that Muhammad Husain was mis- representing my announcement of 21st November, I published an announcement on 30 November 1898 so that Muhammad Husain would not go on misleading others by misrepresentation.