Our Beloved Master - His Early Life — Page 148
•oUR BELoVED MASTER• 148 Pride, arrogance and falsehood were so much a part of their nature that they were completely consumed in it. They would go to the graves of their elders and they would proudly boast, “See here! This is our elder, who was extremely strong and brave. If you ever had such a person among your elders then show us his grave. Otherwise, go hide your face in shame and go drown yourself in a few drops of water!” When such challenges were given, the people would no doubt get angry and once again the fighting and terror would start. So shameless were the people that they would do the T aw a f of the Ka‘bah naked and would say that when we were born from our mother without clothes, then what wrong is there in doing the T aw a f naked? They were so immoral that one woman would marry ten men at the same time and when she felt like it she would divorce all or a few of them. Similarly, men were also accustomed to having as many wives as they wanted. Not only would they have as many wives as they pleased, men also often exchanged wives with their friends. They didn’t even see anything wrong with marrying two sisters to one man at the same time.