The Light of the Holy Qur'an — Page 50
T HE L IGHT OF T HE HOLY Q U R’AN—NUM BE R ON E T HE L IGHT OF T HE HOLY Q U R’AN—NUM BE R ON E 50 due to their love for the Christians? True need is the label that can be given to this and not that which is presented for the Gospels. No sooner had the Messiah passed away that the condition of the Christians grew even worse than before. Should Thakar Das demand, I can present up to ten thousand such verses wherein the opponents have admitted their sins. Even now the Christians are foremost in certain vices. For example, consider the mother of all evils: alcohol. Just in the city of London, there are so many wine shops, that it was approximated that if they were placed from end to end they would stretch for 75 miles. Adulterous women are so numerous in England that their number in London alone may exceed a hundred thousand. On top of that, the illegitimate children born in secret due to the audacity of ‘chaste ladies’ are, according to some estimates, seventy-five per cent of all births. And the Lord have mercy, gambling is so rampant that it appears as if the Majesty of the Almighty has totally abandoned the hearts of this nation. They have deified a mere mortal and have mistaken vices for virtues. The truth of the matter is that the notion of Jesus’ suicide has destroyed them and the doctrine of Atonement has liberated them from the need to follow all the commandments of the Torah in respect of treading the paths of righteousness and eschewing evil. They have such enmity for Islam as Satan has for Truth. No one from among them reflects: what new thing has Islam presented that is worthy of objection? Moses killed hun- dreds of thousands of innocent children, but no Christian ever says that he was guilty of any evil deed. But our lord and mas- ter, the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, raised the sword against those who had already raised it against him. He killed those who had already killed many Muslims