Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 117
11 February 1905 117 of any kind from the Government. Preach to the [non-Muslim] people and complete the argument against them. The idea that the Government jails people who engage in preaching is entirely wrong. Not at all. Yes, of course, those who create disorder are worthy of being detained due to their con- duct. What is the Government’s fault in this? The current state of Christianity is that it is dying on its own. Their great and eru- dite scholars have become staunch enemies of the Trinity, and modern learning has instilled in their hearts that an artificial ‘God’ is no longer of any use. The condition of the Christian priests is that they are working only for the sake of provisions. If their salary is late by so much as a single day, they leave work and write books against Christianity. The Jihad of this Age Now is the time for breaking the Cross. It is most unwise to wield the sword in a speech contest. God Almighty says in the Holy Quran that you should fight the disbelievers in the same way and with the same tools with which they attack you. It is obvious that these people’s attacks on Islam are not with the sword but with the pen. Therefore, they must be answered with the pen; if it is given with a sword, then it will be a transgression, which is explicitly forbidden by God Almighty in the Holy Quran: 1 َّنِا َهّٰللا اَل ُّبِحُي َنْيِدَتْعُمْلا َّنِا َهّٰللا اَل ُّبِحُي َنْيِدَتْعُمْلا Also, even if the Christians are killed, this will not remove the doubts in people’s hearts; instead, they will become more firmly established, and people will say that the Muslims have no proof 1. Surely, Allah loves not the transgressors ( S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:191). [Publisher]