Documents of the Right Word

PART NINE
ANSWER TO A RELIGIOUSLY IGNORANT
PERSON
Our Prophet (sall-Allâhu ‘alaihi wa sallam) declared: “Every
child comes to the world with a pure soul suitable for becoming a
Muslim. Later their parents make them irreligious.” This implies
that it is necessary to teach Islam to children. Their pure souls are
suitable for Islam. A child who has not learned Islam will
misunderstand Islam by falling for the lies and slanders of the
enemies of religion. He will think that it is retrogressive or
vicious. If a person who is religiously unlearned and who has
never received any religious instruction or notion of Islam falls
into the traps of the enemies of Islam, he will learn quite a
different, altogether contrary system instead of Islam. He will fall
victim to the poisonous inoculations and shamelessly fabled
writings directed to him. He will not find peace in this world. And
he will be drifted into endless calamities and tortures in the next
world.
Every Muslim, even every person, must know how low, how
base the slanders which are fabled by the enemies of Islam in order
to deceive the youth are. And in order not to drift into calamity by
believing these lies, we should comprehend the sublimity of Islam,
realize that it helps knowledge, science, morals and health, and
that it commands working, advancement, cooperation and mutual
love. A wise, vigilant and cultured person who has understood
Islam correctly and well, will not believe in the lies of the enemies
of Islam. Seeing that they are religiously ignorant, uneducated,
deceived and wretched people, he will pity them. He will wish that
they could get rid of that disastrous state and come round to the
right course.
We have come across a pamphlet of several pages scribbled
shamelessly by such a deceived ignoramus of the religion with a
view to spreading the poisonous slanders he had been taught in
order to inoculate healthy souls with the spiritual disease that
drags him to endless calamity; he wants to corrupt and degenerate
good people. Confusing the title of a writer with competence,
those who see its content, which slanders truth, goodness and
virtue, may think that it is based upon observation or knowledge
and that it contains value. To eliminate the sorrow it causes, it has
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