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