The Message or A Cry of Anguish — Page 79
THE MESSAGE OR A CRY OF ANGUISH 79 ashamed; rather they shamelessly persecute the truthful and bra- zenly create disorder in the earth and pounce upon the Muslims with fury. I have been raised to break their idols, dispel their lies, eradicate their fabrications and root out their falsehoods. It seems the matter now stands reversed, with dark nights finding faults with the sun and the new converts to Christianity pouncing upon and attacking the Muslims. Among their recent mischief is that a man from among them wrote a book and entitled it Ummahātul- Mu'minin. In this book, he resorted to every kind of abuse and fabrication like the mischief-makers and the wicked. He stooped to vulgarity in his discourse, showing his inner filth and pretended as if he had clinched the argument in his treatise and put an end to the debate by his decisive critique. The fact is that there is noth- ing in his book except abuse and invective, and it contains such words as do not behove a modest and wise person. He sent cop- ies of his book without demand to certain honourable Muslims who are eminent and notable persons of the nation. This is the fire that has kindled the flame of the sufferers and set ablaze the hearts of the Muslim believers. When I saw this book and came to know of its vulgar excesses, vituperation and maligning, and read his hurtful remarks and became aware of his filthy and pro- vocative abuses and witnessed his sheer bias and vile discourse, and when I observed the injustice, slander and obscenity wherein he indulged like the vulgar, then I realised that he spoke all this on purpose in order to incite the Muslims. He did not say such things based on any research like the seekers of truth and guid- ance. He uttered the most offensive remarks regarding the Best of Creationsas. Such is the habit of the vulgar and the mean who do this in order to hurt the Muslims and offend all the sects of