The Criterion for Religions — Page 32
32 Mi'yiirul Madhahib Being and that His dominion is not based on affectation and coercion. Rather, every existent, impelled by an inner urge of the soul, lies prostrate in worship before Him, because each miniscule particle is His creation and is steeped in His limitless favours. It is a pity that the followers of all the opposing religions, out of their own parsimony, have tried to forcibly hold back the vast river of Divine Might, Grace and Holiness. This is why their imaginary deities have been tarnished with a variety of stigmas like weakness, unholiness, affectation, and unjustified wrath and tyranny. But Islam nowhere blocks the rapid currents of God's perfect attributes. It does not, like the Aryas, preach the doctrine that souls and constituent particles of the earth and the heavens are their own creators, and that Parmeshwar, for some unknown reason, rules over them just like a Raja. Neither does it teach like the Christian religion that God was delivered from the womb of a woman like a human being. Not only did he feed on menstrual blood for nine months and inherit his share of blood, bones and flesh from a sinful body that was heir to the nature of promiscuous women like Bath-Sheba, Tamar and Rehab, but he also suffered the travails of childhood diseases like measles, smallpox and teething. He wasted a large part of his life as an ordinary human being and it was only when he was