Refutation of the Allegation of Insult to Jesus Christ — Page 4
4 their faith to believe that they all are righteous and sinless. Therefore, for Muslims it is inconceivable to deride anyone of them, let alone insult them—which indeed is a great sin. On the other hand, the holy scripture of Christians did not require them to believe in any other prophet after Jesus. Therefore, the Christians felt free to attack Islam and to ridicule the prophet of Islam - the most immaculate of all the prophets, the best among the best, the chief of the created beings - Hadrat Muhammad Mu st af a sa. They had launched a vicious attack on his noble character, and crossed all limits of human decency while attacking him most cruelly. Books were published in their thousands in the subcontinent which hurled abuse and profanity upon our lord and master Hadrat Muhammad Mu st af a sa. One can guess the depth of such obnoxious material by the mere fact that even some Christians were alarmed on the publication of ‘Hid a yatul Muslim i n’ by padre ‘Im a d-ud-D i n. A Christian paper, ‘Shamsul Akhb a r’, Lucknow, stated in its October 15, 1875 edition: “There is nothing more detestable than padre ‘Im a d-ud-D i n’s publications which contain foul expressions. And if there occurs another mutiny like