The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 279
The Holy Prophetsa 279 would be disrespectful and destructive of faith and would amount to a total denial of God. [Surmah Chashm Āryā Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 2, pp. 60-65]. I enquire that if the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of. Allāh be on him] who had announced his claim that the moon had been split by the pointing of his finger and that the disbelievers had witnessed it with their own eyes, though they called it sorcery, was not true in his claim, then why did his opponents keep silent and why did they not call the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] to account that he had not split the moon and that they had not called anything sorcery, nor refused to accept anything that had happened as an event? Why did they remain silent and keep their mouths shut till they had passed away from this world? Does not their silence, which was inconsistent with their opposition and with their eagerness to contend against and question everything, certify that they were held back from speaking by some severe obstruction? What could that obstruction be except that the event was true?. This miracle occurred in Mecca when the Muslims were very weak and helpless. It is a matter of surprise that the sons or grandsons of the opponents of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] also did not utter anything in contradiction of the event, for if the claim of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] was mere falsehood and had received great publicity, they should have written and published books in exposing it. When the Muslims continued to bear witness to it openly before thousands of people, and their evidence is found recorded in the books of that time and hundreds of thousands of Christians, Arabs, Jews, and