Message of Love and Brotherhood to Africa — Page 58
58 direction. I said I was prepared to concede that, but there was no gainsaying the point that men had forgotten love of fellow-men. A pause to reflect This should make a Muslim pause and reflect for a moment—he is discarding the way of the Holy Prophet sa whom he calls his master and leader and who he believes to be the favourite of Allah and that it is through his love that one qualifies for the gift of Allah’s love. Whom did the Holy Prophet Muham- mad sa ever hate? Will any one answer the question? Whenever he was hard on someone it was to set him right. None can cite a single occasion in the whole of his life when he treated any man with contempt and hatred. No doubt he did hate wicked deeds of men with great contempt. We too should hate sin lest it should vitiate our atmosphere eventually spelling moral death of our generations. But he did not hate the miscreant. He did not hate the Jew who on account of illness polluted the bedding. He did not look down upon the people who put him and his followers to untold hardships