Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 81
81 described in ways that amount to either the hallucinations of a poet or ridiculous tales. Let alone other Prophets, they do not even spare the Holy Prophet s as himself ! Stories are told of his affair with Zainab, and secret relations with a slave girl, and so on, which tarnish the image of his perfect and pristine character. On the other hand, they completely ignore the testimony of Hadrat ‘ A yeshah ra —his wife and closest confidante—who said, ‘The Holy Prophet s as was the very image of the Holy Quran. ’ 13 A theory of naskh has been invented whereby contradictions are cited between verses of the Holy Quran and some are declared to have been abrogated. This is done without any authority from the Holy Quran or from the Holy Prophet s as. For anyone who ponders and reflects, such a belief would leave no verse of the Holy Quran without an element of doubt. Further, by teaching that a dead Prophet from among the fol - lowers of Moses will return to this world, the ummah of the Holy Prophet s as has been rendered unworthy and the Holy Prophet s as without any spiritual influence. Such are the beliefs of the Muslims today, but their practical condition is no less lamentable. 75% of Muslims do not observe obligatory prayers or fasting. Most do not pay the Zakat, and of those who do, only 2% do so willingly and happily. Most of those for whom the Hajj is obligatory will not even hear of it; while some for whom it is not obligatory, and in some cases even for - bidden, set out for the pilgrimage and tarnish the name of Islam by undergoing all kinds of hardship on the way. The few who do observe these obligations do it in such a way that, instead of ful - filling their purpose, they actually incur God’s wrath on account