The Light of the Holy Qur'an — Page 117
T H e J O u r NA l—F AT e H M A S IH T H e J O u r NA l—F AT e H M A S IH 117 This is the teaching of Yas u ‘ [Christ]! If only such a per- son had never entered the world, so that these adulterous deeds would have never occurred! This person murdered chastity and piety, and spread heresy and licentiousness throughout the entire land. There is no worship, no spiritual discipline except for eating and drinking and gazing sinfully, and there is no concern of any kind at all. And to make matters even worse, he made people more daring in sin by giving them the hope of spurious atonement. Who among the sensible can believe that if X were given a purgative, it would cause toxins of Y to be purged? Evil is truly removed only when virtue takes its place. This is indeed the Quranic teaching. How can one person’s suicide benefit another? How ignorant and contrary to eternal law is this notion that was advanced by your revered Christ! Did his eating bread serve to fill the bellies of his disciples? How then could his suicide be of benefit to others? The entire corpus of the teaching of the Gospel is so uncouth and flawed that each and every word is profoundly objectionable and its author has absolutely no idea of what is called taqw a [right- eousness] and what the subtle levels of sin are. The poor soul only babbles like a child. Unfortunately, I do not have the time at the moment to expose all these teachings of Christ but, God willing, I will do so on some other occasion and prove how this person is totally ignorant of the path of piety and that his teachings cannot irrigate any branch of the human tree. He has absolutely no idea of what the faculties are with which man has been sent into this temporary abode. He has no knowledge that it is not the purpose of God that all these abili- ties be wasted; rather, His purpose is for them to be nurtured in a