Favours of the Gracious God — Page 110
110 benefitted them nought; they were exhorted, but such exhortation brought them no gain. In response they did not exhibit anything except rigidity, and they increased in orchestrating disorder. Observe how they go about transgressing in the land; they hastened forth from every height, and were the cause of every lamentation and bewailing; they quickened their steps in order to kill their prey; they spread debauchery, immodesty and falsehood for they themselves were immoral. It is for this reason that you see that honesty has become scarce, breach of trust has become rampant, immodesty has spread excessively, misguidance has produced numerous offspring, and the bitch of immorality became aroused; the adulteress of disorder conceived; sermons result in the opposite effect like giving birth to a breeched baby; and the camels of absurd talk have been fattened, whereas the thoroughbred fast- paced she-camel of truth—despite its youth, freshness and good health—was slaughtered. No one mourned over it nor shed any tears. Instead, the pony of falsehood was let loose in the pasture and grazed upon the meadow of truth until its stomach was bursting at the sides. No one took steps to stop it; the hands of Muslims having been rendered useless stripped of their flesh. The swords