CHAPTER ONE
(WARNING TO THOSE WHO VIOLATE THE LIMITS OF ISLAM)
Who does he turn to he who turns away from professing the Oneness of God and from obeying Him, he who did not raise up his head yet in doing what He ordained and called for, he who belied His apostle, who declined from following him, who diverted himself from his teachings, who disconnected himself from his tradition , who followed a way different from his sunna and did not hold firm to his convention, he who gave himself access to ingrained ignorance in his soul, to whims and stubbornness in his heart, to denial and rejection of faith in his chest, to disobedience and dissention in the deepest of his feelings? ! . He who does, he would have met God’s tidings with falsification, His commandments with rebellion, His prohibitions as permissions. He would have brought God’s anger upon himself while he is pleased; pleased that God is angry at him. He would have loved what God abhors and abhorred what God loves. He would have befriended those who contest God and contested those who befriend
Him . He would have advocated against what pleases Him like reprimanding a servant of God for praying . He would be like someone who:
“Then sccst thou such a one as takes as his god his own vain desire? God has, knowing (him as such) left him astray, and sealed his hearing and his heart (and understanding), and put a cover on his sight. Who, then, will guide him after God (has withdrawn Guidance)?” (al-Jathiah: 23)
God, then, has deafened, muted and blinded him. He is lifeless in both abodes, o n earth and in the Hereafter, and deprived of both kinds of happiness. He would have the disgrace of this deserved world and the penalty of the Hereafter. He would have sold out the profitable deal for the losing one . His heart would have been closed
toward His God and toward the way that leads to paradise. The blessing of God and the closeness to Him are then closed against him. He would be the supporter of the Evil One and an enemy to the Most Gracious. He would be an ally to Faith rejection, to deviation from the Right path and to disobedience. The Muslims Submitted to God
a Lord, accepted Islam a religion and Muhammad, a messenger of God; but the illusioned abandoners accepted the Cross and idols as gods , Trinitarianism a faith, rejection a religi o n and the path of misguidance and indignation, a direction . He is most disobedient to the Creator and, as such, can attain no measure of happiness without obeying Him , and he is most compliant to that which is created, wasting and exhausting his life and the promise of the after-life in submitting to” the created ” instead of the Creator.
When he is asked in his grave: «who is your lord? What is your religion? Who is your prophet?» he would say: «ha .. ha . . I do not know ! » . then it will be said to him : «you did not know, you did not recite (the Qur ‘ an), on this you lived , on this you died on this you shall be raised by the Will of God» . Then his grave will turn on him, close up on him like the blade of a spear snuggled down tightly to its shaft till the hours of Reckoning. When what the graves hold inside are called upon and scatter, and what is in the hearts is collected, and all the people arise to the Lord of the Worlds, and the Caller calls out saying:
“And o ye in sin! get ye apart this day!” (ya-seen: 59)
Then, every worshipper will be asked to stand up in front of the god he worshipped and adored, and the Lord Most Sublime will say and all the creatures will be listening to Him: «It is not just fair on my behalf to endorse every human being to the god he patronised on earth ! » . Therein , the polytheist will realise the falsehood of what he
believed in, and comprehend the recompense he had earned . The rejecters of the True faith know that they did not live loyal servants to God, for God’s loyal servants are those who fear Him:
“And say: Work (righteousness); soon will God observe your work, and His Apostle, and the Believers: Soon will ye be brought back to the knower of what is hidden and what is open: Then will He show you the truth of all that ye did.” (al Taw-bah: 105)
(THE NATIONS BEFORE THE MISSION)
When God sent Muhammad (peace be upon him) the people on earth were of two groups: the people of the Book, and the pretenders of Faith (the hypocrites) who followed no Book. The people of the Book are of two kinds: the cursed ones, and those who went astray (strayers). The people who angered God are the Jews : the people of
lies and falsifications , of perfidy, deception , and chicanery, the murderers of the prophets, the people of usury, and they are the most malicious of all people in intentions, the worst in temperament, the farthest to mercy, and the closest to vengeance . Hatred is their nature, enmity and bitterness are their habits: habits of machination, lies, and trickery . They consider those who disagree with them in their rejection of Faith and in their belying of the prophets as undeserving and forbidden from having rights. They do not expect to find in a true believer a shred of trustworthiness, neither do they consider those who agree with them as worthy of right or pity, nor those who have something to share with them as worthy of fairness and equity, or those who mix with them as reliable and untrecherous, or those who give service to them as worthy to give advice. In their midst , the most wicked is the wisest, the shrewdest is the most deceitful, the level-headed, who is never found among them, is not a true Jew. Among all people, they are the shortest in patience, the most excessive in wrongdoing to their families at home, the most unmindful for cleanliness at home, and the most vicious in disposition. Greeting them is maledictive , meeting them is ominous, for their slogan is indignation and their attire in rancour.
The second kind (The Trinitarians) are the people who went astray. They are the worshippers of the Cross. They blasphemed against God in an unprecedented way, and refused to admit that He is the One and Only, the Eternal Absolute, who begets not, nor is He begotten and there is none like unto Him. They did not conceive God as the Greatest of all things, but instead, they said about Him what:
“At it, the skies arc ready to burst, the earth to split asunder, and the mountains to fall down in utter ruin” (Mariam: 90)
Say whatever you wish to say about a sect the cornerstone of whose tenets is that God is a part of three, Mary is His companion, and the Messiah, His son! And that He descended from the Throne of His Magnificence and joined Himself to the womb of His companion. Needless to repeat the known events that allegedly took place, till he was crucified, died and buried. The belief of this sect is the worship of the crosses and the appeal to the pictures engraved and painted in red and yellow on the walls. In their prayer they say:
«Mother of God, provide us with our sustenance ,forgive us and have mercy on us!»
Their religion is drinking wine , eating pork , abandoning circumcision, indulgence in adoring unclean things, permissiveness in eating everything unblessed for human consumption from an elephant to a gnat . To them what is lawful or unlawful is what the priest decides it is, and their religion is what he sanctions, and it is he who forgives sins and salvages them from the chastisement of Hellfire.
This is the case of those who have a book. As for those who do not, they fall between idolaters, fire worshippers, demonolaters, and bewildered Sabaists (astrolators). What is common among them is joining partners to God, belying the prophets , abolishing what God revealed and sanctioned, and repudiating the Day of Reckoning and the Resurrection. They do not follow any of God’s religions, they do not worship Him with the rest of the worshippers and do not praise His Oneness with the praisers of His Oneness. As for the Magians, they sleep with their mothers daughters and sisters, let alone their maternal aunts. Their religion is fanfaronade and hullabaloo, their food is corpses, their drink is wine, their adored god is Fire, and their patron is the Devil . They are the most wicked of Adams’ breed in giving, they hold the most mischievous of creeds and the worst of beliefs.
As for the pretenders o f belief among the Sabaists , and the atheists among the philosophers, they do not believe in God, His angels, His Books, and the Day of Judgement. Nor do they believe in any principle or a return to God . To them the universe has no commander, forbidder, sender of prophets and Books, rewarder of
the good-doers and punisher of the wrong-doers . In the account of their jurists there exists only nine orbits, ten minds, four pillars, and a chain arranging the succession of existing things , which is rather a chain for mad people than a plausible arrangement that can stand to reason! In general, among all of these (false) religions, Islam is the
only religion accepted by God, of which there is no other religion on earth , and the rest are obscure like a tiny unknown planet behind a shroud of misty clouds. God looked at all the people on earth, Arabs and non-Arabs, and abhorred them except a number of the people of the Book. In this dreary pitch-darkness, God raised u p the sun of the
Message like a luminous lantern, and bestowed it on the people of the earth a gift greater than thanks – giving , and the earth shone completely by its light, and this light emanated till it covered all corners and horizons, and the crescent of true Guidance matured to a full moon, and the True Religion of God progressed rapidly. thanks
to God who rescued us from the pitches of darkness by sending us Mohammad (peace be upon him), and opened the door of True Guidance in front of us till the Day o f Judgement, and made us see through His light the strayers from the Right path floundering in their misguidance, wandering about in their inebriety, faltering in their
ignorance, and dithering in their uncertainty. They do believe; but in idolatry! They seek a lord other than God . they do know; but only about the perceivable phenomenae of life on earth and they are oblivious about the Hereafter. They do prostrate but to the Cross, to idols and to the sun . They know how to deceive ; but they are only deceiving themselves though they do not know it:
“God did confer a great favour on the believers when He sent among them an apostle from among themselves, rehearsing unto them the signs of God, sanctifying them, and instructing them in scripture and wisdom, while before that they have been in manifest error” (al-Imran: 164)
“A similar (favour have ye already received) in that we have sent among you an apostle rehearsing to you Our signs, and sanctifying you, and instructing you in scripture and wisdom and in new knowledge” (al-Baqara: 151)
Praise be to God who enriched us with His Sharia which exhorts wisdom and spiritual growth, and embraces the commands for justice and charity, and prohibits all sinful deeds and reprehensive acts and injustice. Kindness and favours return to God for what He bestowed upon us graciously and for selecting us to be above all nations (being the guardians to His True Religion Islam) . To Him we supplicate to inspire us to be grateful and deserving for His blessing, and to open in front of us the doors for repentance , forgiveness, and a mercy, because the most endeared means to the benevolent is to supplicate to Him through his good deeds and to confess to Him that
the whole matter belongs to Him, to His favours and kindness. We return to Him with gratitude for His blessing on us, we return to Him to forgive our sins , ignorance, unjustness , and the excesses we commit in managing our affairs. This is the plea in our hands to gain recompense and be rescued from the most severe penalty. As long as
our mistakes are not deliberate , but are mistakes committed in the course of our pious endeavours, the blessing of God will not desert us . However , some of our mistakes may exhaust all of our good deeds and require more devout obedience to God. The recompense may be greater if our intentions and deeds are unsullied and are purely endeavoured out of love for God and according to His commands . The matter is not more than hanging earnestly to the gems of His forgiveness,putting our trust in Him , shield ing ourselves from His retribution to protect and guide us , submitting and
supplicating to Him imploring for His givings, stretching our lacking hands with humbleness towards Him, asking and admitting our need for Him at all times . He who is given a gust from His abundant Mercy, or receives a glance from His Compassion, would spring alive from among the dead , and would be engulfed from every direction
with plenty of bounties, and all the armies of worries, heart-breaks and sorrows would retreat being defeated away from him . O God! If once in a lifetime You glance at me with mercy I will live forever happy.
(One of the duties toward God is to parry those who disparage the apostle )
Some of the duties toward God is to parry those who disparage His Book, His Apostle, and His Religion, and to contend against them with reason and evidence, with heart and inspiration , with a sword or a spear (if they resort to similar means) . No one would have faith as little as a grain of mustard if he relinquishes this duty. It came
to us that some questions asked by some of the non-Muslims were not answered satisfyingly, and the Muslims failed to find the suitable remedy for the malady. They thought that answering by hitting back cruciatingly would generate the answer that would resolve the matter once for good. But the Faith rejecters said : «our companions were right when they said that Islam advanced by the sword not by the Book» . Both parties dispersed in disagreement: one as a striker, and the other being struck, and the grounds are lost between the asker, the asked , and what is asked for. A responsible replier would roll up the sleeves of the arm on firm will and stand up on the steady ground of diligence asking God for help to defend His cause and relying on Him to say and do what pleases Him . He should not say what the incapable ignorant had said : «The Faith rejecters can only be treated with the sword and there is no need to reason with them » . Such an attitude is an expression of resourcelessness and a resort to escape from the confrontation, incompetence and feebleness . One should follow the bidding of God in debating with the faith rejecters after calling them to embrace Islam . And that is by producing evidences, so that they cannot hide behind the excuse that they were not given proofs:
“That those who died might die after a clear sign (had been given), and those who lived might live after a clear sign (had been given). And verily God is he who is all-knowing and knoweth (all things)” (al-Anfal: 42)
The sword came but to put the proof into effect (to protect its implementation ) , and the to redress the obdurate opposer (who stands against the right of self-expression and freedom of speech) , and a warning to the evading rejecter. God the most sublime said:
“We sent aforetime our apostles with clear signs and sent down with them the Book and the Balance (of Right and Wrong), that men may stand forth in justice; and we sent down Iron, In which is (material for) mighty war, as well as many benefits for mankind, that God may test who it is that will help.“ (al-Hadeed: 25)
The religion of lslam rose through the guiding Book, and was but defended through the sharp sword. The one and refined Revelation was its source, and through its light the cheeks of the seeker glow. It is the cure for the ill of every reasoning man. It is the remedy of the malady of ignorance.
To God I return for good luck, for He opens the doors of the good, and facilitates the means to reach it.
I entitled this book: «Guidance to the uncertain in the Replies to the Jews and Nazarenes» and I divided it into two sections: the first section addresses the issues against Islam, and the second section proves the prophethood of Muhammad (peace be upon him) using all kinds of evidences.
God chose Mohammad to be His apostle and entrusted him with a delightful and miraculous book. No boredom makes its way to its reader or ponderer. Is a book rightly fitting for both this world and the Hereafter. It enhances faith and spiritual pleasure. It provides its reader with whatever he wishes to know about the signs of
prophethood , proofs of the Message, prophecies of the apostles, about their last one, extraction of his (Mo hammad’s) undisguised name from their (Jews and Christians) Books, the mentioning of his epithet , attribute and biography in their books . It provides distinction between good and corrupted religions and how their straight forwardness was corrupted . It mentions some of the unseemly accounts of the people of both books (Jews and Christians) and what they are up to ! and how they are the most notorious among people i n forsaking their apostles, and that the scriptures of their apostles bear witness to their unfaithfulness and their straying from the Right Path . Besides, it gives a truthful account about those who concocted heresies against God . We return to God for help and guidance, for it is enough that He takes our deeds into account, and what a perfect God He is.
The issue ofleadership is not the only reason against of which the people of the Book rejected Islam.
It is wrongly related to the Muslims that: «Within the Muslim community it is customary to hear that nothing prevented the people of the Book from embracing Islam other than the issue of leadership and the prohibition of some food».
Those who attributed this to the Muslims are ignorant in both what Muslims have and what the rejecters of Faith have. The Muslims do not say or circulate such remarks in their circle. If this is said by some of their laymen, it does not extend to all of them .
Among the people of both books (Jews and Christians), those who refused to embrace Islam are far less than those who embraced it. In fact most of the nations embraced Islam voluntari ly, on their own wish and choice and not compulsively or out of necessity. God Most Sublime sent Muhammad (peace be upon him) to all the people of the earth who were five kinds: Jews, Nazarenes, Magians , Sabians, and polytheists. These were the five religions that covered the earth from East to West.
Most of the Jews were in Yemin, Khaybar, Madina and around it. Around the fringes of al-Shaam (Syria), both the Jews and the Nazarenes lived a low life, some lived in the land of Faris (Persia) and were undermined by the Magians (Majoos). A group of them lived in the lands of the Arabs , but most of them lived in Madina and Khaybar. God, praised be His Name, had dispersed them on the surface of the earth a shattered people (Diaspora), He deprived them from their possessions and pride . The Nazarenes were all over the places on earth: all the inhabitants of al-Shaam were Nazarenes, most of the people in the land of al-Maghrib were Nazarenes as well as the people in the land of Egypt, Habasha, Noobah, the Island, the land of al-Mosul, and others. The Magians were the people of the kingdom of Faris and the lands under its rule. The Sabians were the people of Harran and many of them lived in the land of the Romaeans. The Arab peninsula, the land of lndia, and the land of the Turks a n d its neighbouring territories were all polytheists . The religions of the people o f the earth are all included in these five religions . Islam does not recognize any one of them for they are all religions which serve Satan as Ibn Abbas (May God be pleased with him) and others said: «Religions are six in numbers: one is for the Most Gracious, and five are for the Shaytan» ( S atan) . These six religions are mentioned in a definite verse in the saying of the Most Sublime:
“Those who believed (In the Qur’an) Those who follow the Jewish Scripture, and the Sabians, Christians, Magians, and polytheists, God will Judge them on the Day of Judgement: For God is witness of all things” (al-Hajj : 17)
When God sent His Apostle (peace be upon him) , most of the followers of these religions responded to him and to his successors, voluntarily and willingly . Nobody was compelled to do so . The Apostle fought only those who fought and waged war against him. He did not fight those who made peace with him, neither did he fight
those who were under the pledge of truce . He was obeying the bidding of God Most Sublime where He said:
“Let there be no compulsion in Religion: Truth stands out clear from error: whoever rejects Evil and believes in God bath grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold, that never breaks, and God heareth and knoweth all things” (al-Baqara: 256)
The Apostle did not compel anyone to adopt Islam . The above quoted verse from the Quran negates compulsion in the sense of prohibition that is : d o not compel a soul to embrace the Religion. This verse (sura) was revealed to admonish some of the men among the Companions whose children embraced Judaism and Christianity before the advent of lslam, and were with the advent of lslam, their fathers embraced the religion of Muhammad and attempted to compel their children to follow their lead . God Most Exalted prohibited the fathers from resorting to compulsion to inspire their children to embrace Islam out of their choice . Actually, the verse in general implies a measure of concern to every rejecter of Faith . And this is contrary to the opinion that tributes (Jizyah) should be collected from non-Muslims in exchange for not being compelled to
embrace Islam . The fact is that either they choose to embrace the religion or they contribute by paying a nominal poll-tax. This is the way practised by the people of Iraq and Madina , though they excluded some pagans from paying the poll-tax. To him who ponders over the biography of the Prophet (peace be upon him) it becomes clear that he did not compel anyone to embrace his religion, and that he only fought those who fought him . He did not fight those who made truce with h i m as long as they kept and honoured the truce. He never broke a promise, for God Most High bid him to fulfil his
promises to them as long as they kept theirs. A propos, God Most Exalted said:
“How can there be a league before God and His apostle, with the pagans, except those with whom ye made a treaty near the Sacred Mosque? As long as these stand true to you, stand ye true to them for God doth love the righteous” (al-Tawbah: 7)
When he came to Madina, he made peace with the Jews and approved the true teachings of their religion but they fought against him and broke their pledges and started a war. He fought back , forgave them, released some, and killed some. Likewise, when the Prophet Muhammad made truce with (the tribe of) Quraysh holding for ten years, he did not start any fight with them; but when they violated the mutual agreement and raised arms against him , he fought back , and this time he raided them in their own territories: where before, when they marshalled their m e n and marched towards him (like in the battle of Uhod, the battle of al-Khandaq, and the battle of Badr), he stopped the fight when they retreated and went off. The point is that he did not compel anyone at all to embrace his religion; but people embraced his religion voluntarily and willingly. When most of the people on earth realised the True Guidance, and that he is genuinely the Apostle of God, they embraced his call. An example to that is the people of Yemen. He said to him (his envoy to them):
«You are going to a people of a book; let the first thing you call them for be the profession that there is no god but God».
The Hadith mentions that they all embraced Islam expecting no personal gain or favours and without fear. Another example is that among the Jews of Madina, those who embraced Islam and they were many beside Abdullah bin sallam , and they are mentioned in the biographies and the books of Conquests-, they did so not for earthly gain and favours and not out of fear of the sword; but they embraced Islam at a time when the Muslims were in need and their enemies were numerous, and because most of the people of the world were in fight with them, though without a whip or a hanging rope. They endured the hostilities their relatives raged against them , and the hardships in depriving them from everything that could benefit them both money-wise and health-wise, at a time where the Muslims were still in the nesting stage of valour and were short of resources. A Jew, convert to Islam , would alienate himself from his parents, his household, and his tribe, and give the world away for the sake of Islam and not for affluence or money. On the contrary, he would relinquish chieftainship and money, endure mischief of the infidels: their beatings, cursing, and other ways of their misdeeds without letting their evil ward him off his new religion. Many of the bishops,
monks, clergymen, and others chose unbelief at a time where most of the people of their congregations had chosen to embrace Islam, and what was left compared to those who embraced I slam is only little. Take for example the Nazarenes of al-Shaam (Syria) most of them embraced Islam and blended in the community. Then came a time when non-Muslims there became like a black hair on a white ox. So were the Magians; they were a populous nation , only God knows their numbers. They flocked embracing Islam except a few, and their land became the land of lslam. He who did not embrace Islam among them had to pay the Jizyah (poll-tax) and was humbled. So were the Jews; most of them embraced Islam and the rest became little bands dispersed in the lands.
The saying o f an ignorant person that these two nations, only God can keep count of their numbers, rejected Muhammad (peace be upon him) is an obvious lie and a manifest slander. Even if all of them had banded together in choosing unbelief, they would have been similar to the people of Noah who lived among them for nine
hundred and fifty years invoking them to believe in God , and showing them enough signs to prove God’s testimony over them, but they were consistent in their unbelief except a few and they were many times more than these two unbelieving nations : the people who angered God (the Jews), and the misguided people. Again, the people
of Ad , known to be a great and wise nation , banded together in unbelief and they were eradicated with inflicted suffering. The people of Thamud all banded together against belief after they saw the great sign which was more than enough to make all mankind believe . Nevertheless, they chose unbelief over belief as God Most Exalted said:
“As to Thamud we gave them guidance, but they preferred blindness (of he art) to guidance : so the stunning punishment of humiliation seized them because of what they had earned, but we delivered those who believed and practised righteousness” (Fussilat: 17 – 18)
“(Remember also) the Ad and the Thamud (people): clearly will appear to you from (the traces) of their buildings (their fate): The Evil One made their deed alluring to them, and kept them back from the path, though they were gifted with intelligence skill “ (Ankabut: 38)
These were two great nations, two of the biggest of all nations, who had banded together in unbelief deliberately. There is nothing novel in seeing the wrathful and the misguided nations banding together in unbelief. Here are the people o f Pharaoh, they were as numerous , and they too conglomerated in abjuring Moses’ prophethood despite the revelation of the marvellous signs, one after the other. No one among them believed except one man who kept his belief secret. It can also be said to the Nazarenes : Here are the Jews during the time of the Messiah; they were so numerous to the point that they filled the lands of al-Shaam as the Most Sublime said:
“And we made a people, considered weak (and of on account) inheritors of lands in both East and West, lands whereon we sent down our blessings. The fair promise of thy Lord was fulfilled for the children of Israel, because they had patience and constancy, and we levelled to the ground the great work and fine buildings which Pharaoh and his
people erected (with such pride)” (al A’araaf: 137)
And they all stuck together in belying the Messiah and abjuring his prophethood though there were among them scribes, worshippers, and scholars! Only the disciples believed him . If the Jews gave themselves liberty to band together in abjuring the prophethood of the Messiah and in rejecting him at a time where there were among them learned scribes, worshippers, and ascetics, and where the signs of his genuine prophethood came as obvious as the sun, it is not expected from them to restrict themselves in accepting the prophethood of Muhammad (peace b e upon him). The same applies to the misguided nation who are more astray than a herd of lost livestock . And these are the Nazarenes who are not expected to be better than their predecessors.
The alleged shortcoming raised by the above – mentioned questioner can also be raised, part and parcel, against every apostle belied by any nation. The correct perspective of this questioner, is therefore, contained in the opinion of all of these nations who disbelieved all of the apostles. If he could have said that the apostles are in the right, and all of these nations- despite their numerousness and the abundance of learned men among them-are in the wrong, then it stands to reason that the disbelievers in Muhammad (peace be upon him) , who are in fact the minorities, and those who are most humbled and the most despicable of all sects are in the wrong. This would have been more responsible and closer to the truth. If one looks objectively at any one of these nations he would find that the believers in Muhammad’s prophethood form the majority, and the disbelievers and the despicable among them form the minorities. One
should not fo rget that the terra i n of Islam expanded all over the world because these nations adopted his religion and believed in his message . Those who did not were only few. Where do the Nazarenes of today stand , who di sbelieved in Muhammad’s message, from the bygone Nazarenes, who lived before his coming?
So are the Jews , the Magians , and the Sabians . There is no comparison between t h e disbelievers in his message after he was commissioned his message, to the multitudes of these nations before the delegation of his message . God Most Exalted has already told us about the nations who ganged up in disbelieving the apostles, and how He destroyed them. He Most Exalted said:
“Then sent We our apostles in succession: every time there came to a people their apostle, they accused him of falsehood: so We made them follow each other ( in punishment): We made them as a tale (that is told): so away with a people that will not believe.” (al Mu’minoon: 44)
“Similarly, no apostle came to the peoples before them, but they said (of him) in like manner, A sorcerer, or one possessed * Is this the legacy they have transmitted, one to another? nay, they are themselves a people transgressing beyond bounds” (al Zareyat: 52 – 53)
It is definitely known that God Most sublime did not destroy all of these numerous nations till after the True Guidance was made clear to them and they chose unbelief over it. Had True Guidance not been made clear to them , He would have not destroyed them as He, the Most Sublime said:
“Nor was thy Lord the one to destroy a population until he had sent to its centre an apostle, rehearsing to them our signs; nor are We going to destroy a population except when its members practice iniquity” (al-Qasas: 59)
“Why was there not a single township (among those we warned), which believed, – so its faith should have profited it, – except the people of Jonah?. when they believed, we removed from them the penalty of ignominy in the life of the present, and permitted them to enjoy (their life) for a while” (yunus: 98)
That is no faith could have been of help to any people more than the people of Yunus (Jonah) . It is categorically known that all the lines of the prophets believed in the forthcoming messages of Muhammed bin Abdullah (peace be upon him) and the nations who followed him are many times more than these two belying nations: so
many folds more that only God can keep count of them. Not a shadow of doubt could have ever entertained the thoughts of a man endowed with a mind as little as the size of a petty grain, that straying from the Right path, that ignorance, allurement, and wickedness are not attributes of those who renounced him and rejected his apostolate. Besides, a man endowed with a mind as little as a grain is in all accounts closer to following him and testifying his apostolate than they . Thereupon , it may be said , in retrospect ( that if Muhammad was an impostor) , how come then that all of these nations : who only God can keep count of their numbers , who reached every corner on earth, who are of different temperaments, of different purposes and intentions; how come that they all consistently agreed to follow an «impostor» who lies about God and His apostles, who bewilders the minds, makes lawful what God and His apostles
ordained unlawful, and makes unlawful what God and His apostles ordained as lawful! !?? .
It is indisputably known that he who lies to God in the matter of the call of the mess age is the most wicked of God ‘s creatures, most insolent evil doer and a shameless liar. He who possesses the least capable of minds would find it very hard to doubt that the unanimity of most of these nations to follow this apostle Muhammad (peace be upon him) could account to anything other than the Truth of his message. These followers deserted their homelands, abandoned their wealth, antagonised their parents , children, and tribes for the sake of following him and sacrificing themselves for his cause. One would find it very hard to believe that they did all of that for the cause of an impostor! (an illiterate imposter who could fool most people from all walks of life, learned and laymen alike!). As such, finding excuses to condone the choice of Unbelief by little vagrant bands of these two nations with known ulterior motives, and after Truth was made crystal clear to them, is categorically unbecoming and contradictory if to be applied to the Muslims or contrasted with them since the Muslims overwhelmed the earth from East to West through wisdom and genuineness in all traits of character.
Where do the minds of the calf worshippers (Jews) and the Cross worshippers (Christians) who made out of themselves a laughing stock to all wisemen through the insipid contents of their minds, and by what they attributed to their worshipped idols-stand compared to the minds of the Muslims!?. If the formulated ideas of a nation are considered plausible including those mentioned by the questioner that the Lord of the Worlds and the Creator of heavens and earth descended from His Throne and the Chair of His Magnificence and entered the womb of a woman, in the place of the monthly period and menstrual discharges, for several months, then He came out from the vagina a born child suckling her breast and crying, then He grew up bit by bit eating, drinking, urinating, recovering from illness and sickness, feeling happy one time and distressed another, experiencing pleasure and pain, then he made a plot against His arch enemy, Satan by giving Himself away to his enemies, the Jews, who arrested him and drove Him to two slabs of wood to crucify Him on them . Then they brought Him closer to the two slabs of wood, put a wreath of thorn on His head and started to beat Him long and painfully Then they carried Him to the Cross, nailed His hands and feet, positioned Him between two robbers; and yet He is the one who chose it all to
make Iblis swallow His plot for the salvation of Adam and all the apostles from the Devils prison; He offered Himself a sacrifice so that they can be saved from iblis, prison! . If the concurrence of this notion about their idol and god is plausible keeping in mind that there are among them bishops, monks, priests, ascetics, worshippers, and jurisprudents, you name it! what one would say when one of their most skillful experts said:
«The hand that created Adam is the same hand that had nails driven through it on the Cross».
How could not be plausible for them then to gang up in their transgression against those who uncovered their lies, charged them with Unbelief, digression from the Right path, and proclaimed, secretly and openly, their lying against God, their most abhorrent
blasphemies against Him, their lies about the Messiah and their adulteration to his true religion; those who antagonised them , fought against them, and, last but not least, acquitted the Messiah from them and acquitted them from the Messiah, and spread the news that they are the sustaining ballast of Hellfire?. This is one of their main reasons why they chose unbelief over belief. Therefore, their saying that the Muslims say that nothing prevented them from embracing Islam other than the issue of chieftainship and the prohibition of some kinds of food are only some of the reasons that warded them off
from embracing Islam. We have contested against them, alongside with others , and when some o f them realised the corrupt corpus of what they are holding to (they came up with a new excuse), they said:
«If we had embraced Islam we would have been the l owest in status among the Muslims, ignored and unattended to ; where at present we have control over their monies and positions, and in their midst, we enjoy the highest of dignified standings» .
Did anything else prevent the Pharaoh and his people from following Moses other than that?!
By Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziah
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