Mirror of Charm and Beauty — Page 8
3. As I have already stated, these two names in fact, represent manifestations of Jamali attributes and, indeed, it was essential that it should have been so, since in these days the Muslims are not being subjected to religious pressure and persecution, to make them turn back and recant. Evidently, therefore, in times of peace, when no force was being used against the Muslims, to make them give up this religion, any application of force on the part of the Muslims, to consolidate the hold of this religion on the mind of any people, stood directly opposed to the Quranic injunction that "there should be no compulsion in matters pertaining to religion". For the Muslims to exercise any such compulsion would constitute an utter and flagrant repudiation of this clear and most valuable principle laid down by the Holy. Quran that truest of all guides in all that pertians to morality and ethics. Coming after. Moses, whose Khalifa he was, and who followed the Law of Moses, Jesus of Nazareth came fourteen hundred years later, in a Jamali spirit and colour: but the Jewish people, pinning their hopes to misconceived expectations, remained waiting for the descent from heaven. 8