The Holy War — Page 256
256 Statement of DEPUTY Abdullah Atham The Remaining Answer From Yesterday 14) You will not be able to show that protection was offered on the condition of faith in the wars of Moses. And you cannot say that the epidemics—just as was the deluge of Noah as or other cases of mass deaths—were not by the command of God, or that the inno- cent killed therein became thereby accounted as not innocent. So you either reject the Torah being the Word of Allah or stop your criticisms. Our criticisms against the Quran are by virtue of it being opposed to Divine attributes, and from this we conclude that it cannot be the Word of Allah and that the Prophet of Islam can- not be a Messenger of Allah, and we have never gone against our objections to accept that it is the Revealed Word or that he is a true Prophet. Thus, our objections are not like the objections you raise against the Torah despite believing it to be the Word of Allah in accord with the Quran and believing that Moses was a true Prophet of Allah, yet you raise objections. As I have already shown some of the Quranic teachings which are against Divine attributes, I shall state some more such Quranic teachings also. For example, one is that the Quran—instead of teachings worship of the truth—teaches worshipping the fear of falsehood, as is written in S u rah an-Na h l that, ‘whoso disbelieves in Allah after he has believed, providing that he is not forced thereto while his heart is at peace, on such a one is Allah’s wrath. ’ In other words, in a state of compulsion, though the heart is at peace in the