The Light of the Holy Qur'an — Page 153
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 153 he tried to talk away the objection like lewd people and asserted that this prostitute is very sincere and that such sincerity was not found even in the person who was objecting. Praise the Lord! What an excellent reply! Your Yas u ‘ [Jesus ] is praising an adulterous woman saying how pious she is! Claim of Divinity and deeds the like of these! A person who stays intox- icated with wine, intermingles with prostitutes, and is so given to eating and drinking also, being foremost of all, that the people have come to calling him a glutton, what righteousness and piety can be expected from him? Look at the righteousness of our Lord and Master, the Greatest of the Prophets, Best of the Virtuous, Muhammad, the Chosen One, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him! He would not shake hands even with chaste and pious women who came to pledge allegiance to him. Instead, he would seat them at a distance and exhort them only verbally regarding repentance. On the other hand, who among the intelligent and pious would consider such a person to be virtuous who does not eschew the caresses of young women, and while a beautiful prostitute sits so close to him as if she is under his arms —at times stretching her hand to massage perfumed oil in his hair, at times clutches his feet, and at times trailing her beautiful dark hair across his feet, showing herself off in his lap —all the while your revered Yas u ‘ is sitting in a state of ecstasy and even rebukes anyone who tries to object. And what is astonishing is that he is young of age and is given to drinking and then single, and a beautiful prostitute is lying before him, caressing his body with her body. Is this the way of righteous men? And what argument is there to prove that the sensual desire