A Call to Faith — Page 9
9 their deception and fraud. After all, everyone cherishes their own life. More astonishing is the case of those who claim to love Islam, profess apparent faith in the Holy Qur’an, invoke peace and blessings on the Holy Prophet sa and yet do not hold back from attacking his character. They propagate such doctrines which dishonour the blessed personage of the Prophet sa and thereby turn the hearts of people away from his love. Time and again, some among them proclaim Jesus as is still alive and resides in the fourth heaven with the same physical body, and one day he will descend from there and bring the people under his rule. Unfortunately, they fail to comprehend that this is an insult to that prophet to whose beneficence they owe everything; whom God Almighty ordained the greatest of all humanity; and whose spiritual power far exceeds that of the angels and all other human beings. They seek to confer higher rank and station on an individual who, if he had lived in the time of the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad sa , would have prided himself on entering his servitude. It is an inexorable truth that no one has suffered more than the Holy Prophet sa for the sake of God Almighty’s religion. For 13 years in Mecca he endured such agony and torment that had it been inflicted on any other person it would have broken them within a year. His loyal and devoted followers also persevered in