The Light of the Holy Qur'an — Page 96
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 96 Messiah, peace be upon him, as a consequence of which Padre Pfander and Safdar Ali, and Padre Thakur Das and Imad-ud-Din and Padre Williams Rivary were outraged and wrote those books. If the abuse and scorn contained therein were all collected, they would form a book spanning one hundred juzw. 1 Similarly, no one can prove that all the abuse and scorn which Pandit Dayanand heaped at our lord and master, the Prophet, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and the vilification of the faith of Islam that he perpetrated in his book Satyarath Prakash , were the result of some outrage provoked by me. Similarly, the filthy literature being published to this day by people like Lekh Ram from among the Aryas, is also not really because I had abused the Vedic Rishis. Rather, whatever I penned in Bar a h i n[-e-Ahmadiyya] about the Vedas was written with the utmost decency. And it was written at a time when Dayanand in his Satyarath Prakash , Kanahiya Lal Alakh Dhari of Ludhiana in his books, and Indarman Muradabadi in his foul writings, had already hurled thousands of abuses upon the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and their books had already been published. Some wretched and sightless Muslims even had become Aryas. Islam had been ridiculed to the extreme, and yet even then I did not forgo decency in writing Bar a h i n. Even though my heart had been tormented—and tormented deeply —yet I did not resort to slander or harshness of tone in my book at all, and only quoted those incidents that were veritable and relevant. How could I abuse the Vedic Rishis in retaliation to the abuses of the Aryas? 1. A juzw comprises sixteen pages. [Publisher]