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ANSWERS TO A PRIEST’S
DENIGRATIONS
A Protestant priest published a booklet, in which he reasons on
the foundations of Islam and Christianity. We have considered it
would be apropos to quote statements from that booklet and
answer them. The quotations are italicized, within quotation
marks, and the answers follow.
The booklet says, for instance, “According to the teachings of
Jesus Christ, Christianity, a volitional religion suitable for and
adaptable to every nation and every community, to their forms of
government and policies, to the regulations, systems and states of
their social structures, and to the countries they live in, can be
established in any country without detriment to the order and
policy of that country.”
ANSWER: As a matter of fact, because the existing Gospels
contain very few rules pertaining to mu’âmalât, [that is, laws and
regulations of buying and selling, family matters, conditions,
forms, rights of tenure, employment and payment, political laws,
etc.], it will certainly not damage or impair a nation’s order or
policy, as the priest professes. [For they have no rules to make
substitutions with. They have nothing in their repertoire to offer to
others.] However, the world has seen no country as yet where
Christians entered and yet did not make havoc of all its valid
systems and states, homes, orders, lands and governmental
organizations. Countless political law books existent in the
libraries of Great Roman Empires, and books telling about
Roman customs and traditions were all destroyed by Christians.
[Christians exercised the same cruelty not only on non-Christian
people, but also on their Christian co-religionists. Please see what
Christian historians write about the cruelties and destructions the
crusaders inflicted on the Byzantines when they entered Istanbul
in the name of Christian religion. When they invaded Spain, they
ruined and burned hundreds of libraries, destroyed thousands of
works of art, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Muslims and
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