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NOME UN-ISLAMIC ASPECTS-. . ,
"This time the League-propelled Government in Sind has
banned the book under the Criminal Procedure Code. This
piece of legislation existed since
1898.
It was in force during
the war period. If it was un-Islamic, because it was unmoral
and unrighteous, for the League representatives to rely on
the war-time defence rules to impose the ban, and thus
strengthen the popular impression that the ban iseif was
a-
war-time precaution, it was much more so for them to seek
to re-impose and
perpetuate
the ban under the Code.
The fourteenth chapter of the
Satyartha Prakash
was
never intended, as we shall see later on, to ridicule or as a
challenge to the fundamental Islamic teachings in the
Quran. Informed and cultured Muslims, whether in India or .
outside, had never considered it to be so. The fourteenth
chapter has at no time in the past, during all these seventy
years and more, been the cause of the mischief which the
League representatives attribute to it. And there has been
no attack, no provocation, by the Hindus to justify
these repeated wanton assaults upon their sacred book and
their honour. At no time in their long history, did the
Hindus carry on any aggressive war against the religion of
any country, people or tribe. The most tolerant people,
the Hindus, they have been ever ready to lay the foundations
of inter-religious harmony, inter-communal co-operation,
world peace and human progress,—a great work which it
was the heart's desire of Hazrat Mohammed to accomplish
among the various religious communities of the Arab
countries. In these circumstances, we ask in all seriousness
which is that fundamental Islamic principle which the
Muslim League representatives in the Sind Ministry have
not defied and violated by their act of banning the
Satyartha
Prakash
or any part thereof ?