The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 320
320. Essence of Islam-1 prefer to die rather than endure the disgrace that they should make peace and become friends with such people who are occupied day and night with abusing the Holy. Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] and mention his name with contempt in their books, journals, and announcements and use vile language with reference to him. Such persons are not the well-wishers even of their own people, for they create numberless difficulties for them. I tell you truly that it is possible for us to make peace with the serpents of the jungle and the wild beasts of the forests, but we cannot make peace with those who do not refrain from speaking ill of God's Prophets and who consider that abuse and vituperation mean victory. . True victory is that which comes from heaven. [Chashma-e-Ma'rifat, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 23, pp. 385-386]. The insults that have been offered to Islām and the Holy. Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him], the attacks that have been made against Divine Law and the apostasies and heresies that have become widespread, cannot be matched in any other age. Is it not true that in a short while in India alone a hundred thousand people have become Christians, and more than sixty million books have been published in opposition to Islām, and people belonging to high families have lost their religion, and those who used to describe themselves as the descendants of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of. Allāh be on him] have put on the garment of Christianity and have become his enemies, and numberless books full of vile abuse of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of. Allāh be on him] have been published? My heart cries out with tears that if these people had murdered my children before my eyes, and had cut to pieces my sincere friends, and had killed me with great humiliation, and