Blessings of Prayer — Page 27
27 upheld the rights of hereditary tenants to such a degree that the landlord will no longer have any authority over them. Sayyid Sahib considers all things, for instance fire, to be hereditary tenants of the same category. Sayyid Sahib’s law is, in fact, even more severe than that of the British, because in Section 5 there is a clause which allows for the expulsion of a hereditary tenant if he does not pay his dues for the period of one year, even if it amounts to two annas ; but Sayyid Sahib has usurped the rights of the Owner in every respect. One can hardly conceive of greater injustice! Sayyid Sahib has demanded from a rival of his the criteria for evaluating the standard of a commentary of the Holy Quran. Therefore, I, who consider it my foremost duty to show the way to one who has gone astray, deem it proper to serve him in this aspect as well. It, therefore, needs to be understood that: The first and foremost criterion for an accurate commentary of the Holy Quran is the testimony of the Quran itself. One should bear well in mind that the Holy Quran is not like other books that are dependent upon extraneous sources for the proof or disclosure of their verities. The Holy Quran is like a perfectly balanced structure, the whole dynamics of which are