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Proceedings—Debate 5 June 1893 277 perpetrate this kind of coercion in relation to faith. The reference here is not to the coercion to make people believe for which we have pre- sented many verses from the Quran itself, that speak loudly to this. 6. It is a Quranic teaching that, if under any compulsion, some- one denies God although his heart is content with the truth, then, because of the denial and remaining content at heart, he will be spared from the wrath of Allah. Our objection to this was that this is adoration of the fear of falsehood that the All-Powerful Holy God teaches, and this should not happen. You can con- firm this teaching in this verse of S u rah an-Na h l, where it is writ- ten: اخل 1 — ْنَم َرَفَك ِهّٰللاِب ْۢنِم ِدْعَب ٖۤهِناَمْيِا 7. The saying of Paul, ‘I am a Jew with the Jews and with other nations like one of them,’ cannot mean that Paul was faithless and duplicitous. What is meant clearly is that as far as I can agree with someone, I should not be hypocritical. Therefore, please look at this incident carefully in 1 Corinthians 9:20–22 and Peter’s clear denial is only of sin and he did not curse upon Christ, but only upon himself. I do not know what anxiety stops you from even quot- ing the correct reference. And why do you refer to the dishonest Englishmen? Are they the New Testament? The discussion is about the Bible and the Quran and not about the people who do evil. 8. I have travelled by ship and I have not seen—nor has anyone else—the sun set in any marshy water. As far as the verse that men- tions that ‘he found the sun setting in a stream of marshy water,’ along with it is the confirmation of the God of the Quran who says this اخل 2— َكَنْوُلَٔـْسَي Meaning, they ask you concerning Dhul-Qarnain , and We promise them that We shall soon tell them. Thus, here 1. S u rah an-Na h l, 16:107 [Publisher] 2. S u rah al-Kahf, 18:84 [Publisher]