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PART TWO 121 commandment in Vedas that teaches such discriminatory ill-will. In all likelihood, such verses date back to the same period in which the wise men of the Aryas wrote in their literary books and refer- ence works that there was no land beyond their own part of Asia and the Himalayas. Hundreds of similarly absurd and supersti- tious tales-the very mention of which is a waste of time here and which are being discredited everyday and have been abandoned by the wise and knowledgeable-can be traced back to the same period. The height of injustice is that it is the very protagonists of such teachings-whose Vedas tell nothing of God Himself beyond the tales of fire, air, sun and moon, which are created things-who have the temerity to call Hadrat Mūsā [Moses] and Hadrat 'Īsā [Jesus] and Hadrat Khatamul-Anbiya' [the Seal of the Prophets] impostors, label their blessed ages as times of false- hood and deception, term their extraordinary success-which bespeaks divine succour-as chance phenomenon, and accuse their scriptures, which were bestowed upon them by God at the most appropriate time to bring about a great reformation, of hav- ing been plagiarized from the Vedas! Peculiarly, the nature of this alleged plagiarism has not been identified. Do the Holy Quran, the Gospels or the Torah contain teachings about fire-worship as do the Vedas? Do they praise Wāyū or Jall or extol the sky, the moon and the sun? Do they teach how one should supplicate to Indrā for many cows and unlimited wealth after expressing its veneration and praise? If these scriptures do not contain any such impossible is equally impossible. This argument also serves as proof that the Holy Prophet [Muhammad] is indeed Khatamur-Rusul [the final and the last law bearing Prophet]. -Author