Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya-Parts1-2

Part two
The latest estimates of Christian conversions given by Father
Hacker of Calcutta are worrying, to say the least. He writes that
whereas there were only 27,000 Christians in India fifty years ago,
the number has now risen to 500,000. !! * [To Allah
we belong and to Him shall we return!!] Elders of Islam! Do you
await a time of an even greater spread of misguidance? There was
a time when Islam was the living illustration of the Quranic verse:
**
And look at what is happening today! Do your hearts not bleed
at this calamity and are you not overwhelmed by anguish? O men
of knowledge and wisdom! It is not so hard to understand that
the corruption that has resulted from religious ignorance can
only be eliminated through the spread of religious knowledge.
It is with this objective in mind that I have written Barahin-e-
Ahmadiyya, wherein I have demonstrated the truth of Islam so
unequivocally that it will bring final victory to Islam in all the
long-standing disputes.
Also, remember that the appeals that I have made for assistance
in its publication are solely for the benefit of all Muslims.
It is obvious that a book, whose publication cost runs into thousands
and whose price has been fixed at less than half of its actual
cost—from twenty-five to ten rupees—so as to make it easily
accessible to the Muslims, cannot be published without the
* A phrase from the holy Quran which is recited by Muslims to express
their deepest pain. [Publishers]
** [Men] entering the religion of Allah in troops. Surah an-Nasr, 110:3
[Publishers]
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