The Light of the Holy Qur'an — Page 80
T HE L IGHT OF T HE HOLY Q U R’AN—NUM BE R T WO T HE L IGHT OF T HE HOLY Q U R’AN—NUM BE R T WO 80 years. Even if we ignore the concurrence and mutually supporting nature of these narrations, and assume that the Holy Prophet s as had resolved to divorce Saudah due to the natural revulsion on account of her old age, there is still nothing wrong in it, nor does this fact run contrary to any moral state, because logically it is not objectionable for a husband—when he is not able to fulfil the obligations of the marital relationship due to the development of some impediment of any kind in the fundamental premise on which the relationship between a husband and wife is estab- lished—to take appropriate action, while constrained by the pre- cepts of righteousness. Reverend Sir, with regard to your question as to what the British government would have done with a person like the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had he lived today in the time of this government, let it be clear to you that had Sayyidul- K aunain [the Lord of both worlds] lived in the time of this government, this felicitous government would have con- sidered it an honour to carry his shoes, just as the Byzantine Emperor [Heraclius] had stood up merely upon seeing his portrait. It is your worthlessness and wretchedness that you har- bour such misgivings against this government as if it is an enemy of God’s holy ones. This government extends respect to the very least of the Muslim nobles in this present age. Just look at how our Empress of India, may her glory be everlasting, had honoured Nasrullah Khan, who does not even hold the stature equivalent to the slaves of the Holy Prophet s as ! Then, if His Most Exalted Holiness s as , who held such a stature even in worldly life that even kings would fall upon his feet, had been present in this age, this government