Guidance for Perceiving Minds — Page 89
89 There is no doubt that they created a great disorder and made decayed bones a god, deceiving the ignorant people of India with the beauty of openness and the maliciousness of the intent. They wasted the pearls of Islam for dung plated with silver and a white- wash shelter. They turned people from guidance to going astray, and from right to left. They sharpen their tongues like an incisive sword and deliberately abandon the path of glorification and hon- our. Their churches are a place for camels to kneel and rest after a long journey. You do not see a town in the country without find- ing in it a group of apostates, they converted to Christianity due to a share of money, not by arrows. Likewise, a third of Islam was raided, our loved ones were taken away from us, and our broth- ers became hostile to us. It rained until the ground turned into slippery mud. They invaded our country, burned our livers, and corrupted our children. Those who are involved in corruption and apostasy are of three groups: one group openly abandoned the religion of their ancestors. The second group are those who look as Muslims, but their hearts are leprous from atheism. They studied new sciences, ate from its porridge, and became like atheists. They do not fast or pray, rather you see them laughing at those who fast and worship, for they are closer to atheism than to faith, and to Satan than to the Most Gracious. They do not believe in the Resurrection, Heaven, Hell, angels, or the revelations which are the focal points of our Prophet’s teachings, the Chief of all Good s as. They entered the party of the Christian philosophers and came out of it in the clothes of atheists. They trusted in their lightning, yet it