A Message of Peace — Page 34
M ESSAGE OF P EACE 34 servants who would set the disorder right. Sickness and disease call for a healer. You of all people should be able to understand this better than others. You hold the view that the Vedas were not revealed at a time when the ocean of sin was in spate, but that they were revealed, instead when the calm of sinlessness prevailed over land and sea. Do you then consider it inconceivable that a Prophet should appear when the flood of sin rages high and rapidly inundates every country of the world? I do hope that you are not so ignorant of the facts of history. When our Holy Prophet (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) honoured the office of prophethood with his advent, the age had plunged into utter darkness and no aspect of human conduct was free from the blemish of sin and false beliefs. Pundit Dyanand writes in his book Satyarath Parkash, that even in the land of A ry a wart [which takes pride in its monotheistic beliefs] idolatry had replaced the worship of God, and the Vedic faith had become extensively corrupted. Reverend Pfander, a white European priest and a staunch defender of Christian faith, also endorses these views in his book, M i z a n-ul- H aq. He observes that at the time of the inception of Islam, the Christians had become the most corrupt among all the religious denominations. The lewd and wanton conduct of the Christians of the time was a source of shame and dishonour for Christianity. The Holy Qur’an, justi- fying its revelation, speaks of the same in the following verse 23 : 23. ( al-R u m, 30:42). . .