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 IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD

ll praises are due to the one power, the one Eternal God, who has neither wife nor son; God who has no partaker in His authority and power, and who posses an eternal kindom; God who warned us by His words against anagram and related to us of the people who forgot Him and say that the Merciful has a son is undoubtedly a grave impiety; and peace and salutations to the Prophet - a chosen prophet, the lord of arguments and signs, whose signs are bright and who freed all the prophets from the accusations of those who believe in the Trinity and are thus misguided; the prophet whose prophetic career was prophesied very brightly and whose religion subdued all other religions and shuttered their standards. Peace and salutation to his decendants [sic], his companions and their followers, his friends and their friends and to all of them. I testify that there is but one God and that Jesus is His servant and prophet.

After the praises due to God and the Prophet, says a humble Abdullah of Delhi that the cause of this controversy arose from certain Missionaries of the Cambridge Mission, who came to Delhi for the propogation of their faith. They have for the last twelve years been here and have for a long time been learning Urdu and Persian. Of them, the Rev. G. A. Lefroy being desirous of controversy was enquiring of the Mussalmans as to how a certain tenet was believed in and how such a thing was accepted. Munshi Vajid Ali, a student at the Medical College, was attending the open air preaching of the Missionaries and was hearing their sermons delivered in the market-places. My com