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Appendix to Announcement on First Page<br />

30 November 1898<br />

Instant Disgrace<br />

24<br />

Sheikh Muhammad Husain of Batala has proclaimed<br />

repeatedly that in order to distinguish between the one<br />

who is truthful and the one who is a liar, he desires a<br />

prayer-duel, for in the faith of Islam this practice is<br />

supported by the Sunnah. However, along with this, he<br />

further proposes: ‘If I am proved to be a liar then<br />

immediate punishment should befall me.’ In response to<br />

this, in my announcement of 21 November 1898, I have<br />

written in detail that in a prayer-duel it is against<br />

24<br />

Impudent one! Seek not the humiliation of the truthful,<br />

For this course of action is bound to lead you to a very undesirable<br />

end. [Publisher]

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