Islam's Reformers .pdf

observations on the atom, radioactivity, matter and energy,hence being unable to deny the existence of Allâhu ta’âlâ, theyhave begun to speak ill of prophets (’alaihimu’s-salâm). Theyhave said, “Everybody is free. Worship is not forbidden.Everybody worships his Allah as he wishes. Nothing besidesreason can be an intermediary between Allah and man.”However, a person who believes in the next world has tobelieve in prophets, too. It is very illogical to consign theknowledge about blessings and punishments in the next worldto reason. Especially ignorant people can never reason themout. Islam commands to believe in all prophets. Jews andChristians never believe in Muhammad (’alaihi ’s-salâm), theProphet of Islam. They speak ill of this exalted Prophet. As forIslam, which was preached by Muhammad (’alaihi ’s-salâm), itexpels from Islam those who deny Mûsâ (Moses) and ’Îsâ(Jesus) (’alaihimu ’s-salâm) and utter words humiliating them.Suppose a ruler assigns a governor to a province and, after thisgovernor rules that province for some time, the ruler assigns anew governor; how will it sound if some people say, “We won’tdisregard the advice of the former governor! We won’t obey theorders which the new governor brought”? While the firstgovernor was the ruler’s official, are not the successors hisofficials? Jews do not acccept ’Îsâ and Muhammad (’alaihimu’s-salâm) as prophets. While Mûsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) was Allâhuta’âlâ’s prophet, how could it be impossible for them to be Hisprophets? Christians, even though they see this wrong belief inJews and disapprove them, are unaware that they themselvesdo the same mistake and slander Muhammad (’alaihi ’s-salâm).This wrong belief of Jews and Christians is not based on ascientific observation. It is nothing but taking the old for grantedand refusing the new only because of newness, i.e., sheerbigotry.’Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) was born without a father. His motherHadrat Mariam took him from Jerusalem to Egypt. After stayingthere for twelve years, they came back to Jerusalem and settledin the village Nâsira (Nazareth). He was revealed to be theProphet when he was thirty years old. Three years later, Jewswanted to kill him. Allâhu ta’âlâ took him to heaven alive. YudâSham’ûn (Judas Iscariot), a hypocrite who resembled him, wascrucified. Because ’Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) was without a father,Christians worship him calling him “Allah’s son”. If being born- 88 -