The Light of the Holy Qur'an — Page 90
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 90 maidens is debauchery and impiety. O imbecile! Have you for- gotten the wives of Prophet David as who has been praised in the Sacred Book [Bible]? Was he committing adultery to the end of his days? Isn’t the person in whom you place your trust [for sal- vation], the holy progeny of this very ‘adulterer’? Did God, who reprimanded David about Uriah’s wife, remain oblivious to this crime of David as which he continued to commit until his last breath, and instead bestowed upon him one more girl to warm his bosom? Furthermore, the testimony of your God is on record that David is righteous in all his affairs except in the matter of Uriah. Can any sensible person accept that if polygamy was considered evil in the estimation of God, wouldn’t He have reprimanded the Israelite Prophets—who excelled all others in polygamy—at least once for this act? Thus, it is extremely dishonest to mischievously and wickedly object to one thing concerning the life of the Holy Prophet, when the exact same thing is veritably present in ear- lier Prophets and God has not pronounced it to be objectionable. Sadly, these people are so shameless that they do not even realize that if having more than one wife is tantamount to adultery, then serious doubt arises regarding the purity of the birth of Christ , who is called the progeny of David , and who would be able to prove that his ancestral maternal great grandmother was indeed David’s first wife? You then object by citing Hadrat Ayeshah Siddiqah ra that it was against the Shariah for His Exalted Holiness, the Prophet of Allah s as to touch his body with hers and suck her tongue. To what extent must I lament such sordid bigotry? O imbecile! All such acts are permissible in a lawful and proper marriage. What