With Love to the Muslims of the World — Page 5
5 Moses or Jesus (peace be on them) and, above all, by the greatest of Prophets, the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa ? Were they not abused, were they not insulted, were they not persecuted and tortured, were they not deprived of all their fundamental rights and even declared to have for- feited their right to live? All sorts of allegations were hurled at them. They were accused of crimes they had never dreamt of. They were alleged to hold beliefs which they never held. Many among them were treated as for- eign spies and were compelled to leave their homelands. The atrocities committed against these claimants and their adherents are innumerable but the one and only ''crime'' they committed was none other than their belief in One God and in the fact that He had raised a Messenger to reform society. This is the ''crime'' which prophet after prophet and their adherents are alleged to have commit- ted! O PPOSITION TO G OD ’ S P ROPHETS C REATES A S UPERFICIAL U NITY When one scans the history of religions, one cannot fail to notice that all the prophets of God, though accused of creating disorder and disunity, do in fact become instru- mental in uniting a society which before their advent was already shattered into sects and schisms with an ever-growing tendency to fall further apart in dogmas and practices. Had Jesus as not been raised, no power on earth could have united the warring factions of the Jews. Thus, it was only the hatred of Jesus as that brought about the great miracle