Mirror of Charm and Beauty — Page 4
in the Islamic Scriptures of a bloody Mehdi, who would spread Islam in the world at the point of his sword, is altogether absurd, and quite baseless. There is no such prophecy at all. Ideas of this kind are no more than superficial thinking on the part of short sighted people who took a parable and a similitude in literal meaning. Apart from numerous Quranic texts, which repudiate ideas of this kind, the absurdity of this view becomes evident, on a rational basis, the moment we remember that a faith imposed on the mind at the point of the sword can never breed the required degree of sincerity, without which all religious conviction is reduced to a sham, and a glaring mockery. Of hypocricy, of the state of mind that believes one thing and says something quite different, there is no greater enemy than. Islam. In denouncing the Hypocrites, the Holy. Quran goes so far as to say that, on the. Day of Judgement the Hypocrites would be thrown into the worst and the most awful portion of Hell. ' 2. The second basic claim of the Promised. Messiah is that of Masihiyyat-i. e. he claimed to be the Messiah whose advent had been 4