Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 384
384 My dear countrymen, I have not said this to offend you and to injure your feelings. I from very good motives wish to tell you that those who have made it a point to abuse and attack the Prophets of other communities as if it formed a part of their religion are not only sinners in the sight of God for their transgressions and for making unfounded attacks, but they are also guilty of sowing the seed of discord and enmity between different communities. If a person abuses another man's father or calumniates his mother, he really attacks the honour of his own parents, and if the person whose parents he has abused pays him back in the same coin, the man who took the initiative in the matter may fairly be held to be the cause of abuse and must be regarded as the enemy of his parents 7 honour. But mark how God teaches us manners and regard for others' honour. He says: j ** & ) )y~# *U J ^ ^ t ^* ^ yc & ^ jj ) )^wj il. U jj*j ) i. e. , "Do not abuse the idols of the idolaters for if you do it, they will abuse your God in return, because they do not know God. " Thus, though, according to the teaching of the Quran, the idols have no worth at all, but God teaches the Muslims such good manners that He enjoins upon them to abstain even from abusing the idols and to use mild words, lest the idol-worshippers be excited and begin to revile God, and thus the Muhammadans themselves be the cause of having their God abused. Compare with this the conduct of those who abuse the great Prophet of Islam, speak of him in disgraceful terms, and make wild and savage attacks against his honour and character. Our Holy Prophet is held in such great honour by the Muslims that the great monarchs of Islam come down from their thrones when they hear his holy name and regard themselves as among the humblest of his servants. Is not this honour from God ? To treat with contempt one who is honoured by God is to fight witl*