(At this stage Isabella is extremely ashamed and perspires.)All present: Allah protect us ! Allah forgive us ! All power and authority iswith Allah!Umar Lahmi: These things happen because Christianity has dignified unmarried life and asceticism which is against Nature and Divine law. A strong argument of the falsity of Christianity is also that it enjoins on men such laws as are against Naturewhich men cannot follow. It is for this that the Apostle of Islam had declared that La Rahbaniyat fil-Islam. [There is no monkery or giving up the world in Islam.] He alsosaid : An-nikah min sunnati fa-man raghaba an sunnati fa-laisa minni [Marriage is my system and whosoever turns away from my system is not of me]. The Quran says:“And (as for) monkery, they innovatedit—We did not prescribe it to them, but they did not observe it with its due observance.” And how can anyone observe a thing which is unnatural and against law?Isabella: Has Islam prohibited monkery and abandoning the world?Umar Lahmi: Certainly. You have justheard what the Holy Quran and the Prophet of Islam say.Isabella was greatly moved on this and the dignity of Islam was further enhanced in her mind.A person: So the monks do not discriminate between the permissible and the prohibited, between right and wrong ?Isabella: There are many shameful things. When the honour of their mothers and sisters is not safe at their hands, what else they would notbe doing!Mr Laski in his book, European Morals, has very elaborately exposedthe depravities of monks and priests in general and has written that there was no moral crime which they did not commit.A person: Are the nuns also so corrupt?Isabella: Allah may protect us. Their condition is worse than monks.Even European historians have testified that when a tank in a school of nuns was cleaned out several thousand craniums of babies were found there which had been thrown in to conceal corruption of some of them.Umar Lahmi: In fact the root of all this corruption is the creed, of Atonement which has given licence to Christians to commit sins.Isabella: Surely, you have understood it well. In fact, the creed of Atonement has taken away the fearof sins and everyone is confident thatby confessing before the priest all kinds of sias will be forgiven.Umar Lahmi: Allah-o-Akbar (Allah isgreat!). The greatness and truth of Islam is also manifest from the fact (hat while rejecting the creed of Atonement, it has made good conduct the basis of salvation and felicity and at the same time it has propounded the principle that: “He who does an atom’s weight of good will see it. And he who does an atom’s weight of evil will see it.”A person (to Isabella): You know that the creed of Atonement has induced Christians to commit sins, but there is also another reason. Christians consider all Prophets to be sinners and think that they have been committing all kinds of sins in their life.Isabella: This seems to be wrong. If the holy Prophets are also taken to besinners, then who will be left to causeaversion from sins and what right shall they have to ask people to refrain from sins ?Umar Lahmi: You are right, but what would you say to the Christians regarding holy Apostles (Allah forbid!) as idol-worshippers, adulterers and liars ?Isabella: Oh brother! it is really the creed of Christians. They regard Apostles as idol-worshippers and also liars. If this is so, which of the Christian books say so ?Umar Lahmi: My sister! you do not know yet the ideas of Christians and, in order to justify their own sins, what serious accusations they have made against Apostles. Since you have not yet carefully studied your sacred books you are surprised at my words. I assure you that if Islam had not come and the Champion of all Goodness, the Chief of Apostles, had not exposed the untruths of Christians and Jews, no one would have found any proof of the chastity of Apostles today.
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