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Niyaz Nama: An Open Letter to the People of Islam
1876 · 20 pages
Niyaz Nama: An Open Letter to the People of Islam
by Safdar Ali
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In 1876 Maulvi Safdar Ali — a Muslim scholar of the Agra debating circle, baptized at Jabalpur in 1864 and by then an Inspector of Schools — printed an open letter to “the brethren, the people of Islam.” He wrote it because friends would not stop asking why he had changed his religion, and demanded his proofs. This volume carries the letter's opening: his address to them, the four conditions he sets for the argument, and the first three of the differences he draws between the Bible and the Quran — on the Trinity, on the divinity and sonship of Christ, and on the one way of salvation. The book has never been translated; it survives in lithographed Urdu, and this English is a first rendering that no reader of Urdu has checked. The Note on This Edition explains exactly how it was made.
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A note on the text. Niyaz Nama: An Open Letter to the People of Islam is in the public domain. What you’re buying is our edition: the careful typesetting and correction. The original text is also available free here.
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