The Light of the Holy Qur'an — Page 44
T HE L IGHT OF T HE HOLY Q U R’AN—NUM BE R ON E T HE L IGHT OF T HE HOLY Q U R’AN—NUM BE R ON E 44 that people would have willingly given him their beautiful daugh- ters in marriage contrary to their old custom. The above verse of his is saying out loud that he committed all these illicit acts by way of adultery. That is why he continued to indulge in drinking and gluttony. Can anyone accept that despite his being an old man and parents being apprehensive of the second wife status of their daughter and despite giving their daughter contrary to their reli- gion and custom, people would continue to give this al-Akh t al their beautiful daughters blindly in marriage and bring with them a couple of casks of wine as well? Indeed, no one would accept this impossible idea. The truth is precisely that which I have already written, the examples of which are currently found in Europe not in their hundreds, but hundreds of thousands! On the way to Europe this spectacle becomes evident everywhere the moment we cross the ocean. Furthermore, this is not the only verse of al-Akh t al on the subject; rather, there is another one even more offensive in his collection, which we present now for the perusal of the readers: َوْمًا ي َ دْخُل ُ الْكَنِیْسَة َّ ي ْ َاِن َّ مَن َ ظَبَاء و جَاذِرًا فِیْھَا َلْقَی ي The translation of this couplet is that if a person visits our church someday, he shall find a number of deer and young hinds there. In other words, he will feast his eyes upon many young, nubile women who are pretty and slim. It is as if this al-Akh t al is urging people to go visit the church and to relish the view. Two things are to be inferred from this verse. The first is that al-Akh t al had built a church for his people which he used to visit