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.80 iL EA ERT E ASSAULTS ON Si- ETHA PRAKASH
-examination and inquiry, about his own "beliefs" of God
and the expressions of His
truth in
creation, and also of the
-sense which he has formed and cherishes about the funda-
mental teachings of the Quran. No sensible person will
-deny that one rational way of bringing about this result
-is to make quite apparent, in quite an undisguised form,
the fallacies of such beliefs to the mental view of the common
man. We trust no informed Muslim will be so foolhardy
as to characterise it a'; "attacking," Prophet Mohammed or
the
"Ancient Religioe"
which he preaches in the Duran.
Humanity has an inherent right, to demand every elass
-of its members, including the Musalmans, to purify and
transform the bases of their susceptibilities, the springs of
their emotional stimulus, wherever these bases or springs
have been found to act as Chint,. Wall to the moral null
spiritual advancement mid social freedom and well-being of
humanity as a whole, —wherever their natural disposition and
character have been known to wort as forces of violence,
carnage, depredation, profanation and reaction. What makes
the Quranic teachings look like ridiculous really is not the
attacks which are aimed at the transformation of these antl-
Divine bases of so-milts': Dishni susceptibilities, but Lire
•misunderstood spirit of the
religious
teachings in the QUTati,
the readiness of the average bigoted mind to seize upon a
Divine teaching in order to taint it with the low prejudices
and passions of itself ; te misunderstand a teaching of mma
paratively secondary or extrinsic import and then uptiott
as the all-important, to thi , sindicl. systematic and al
disregard and neglect of ;lie iuu
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rmalainemals,
There is all Islans tra.d •wery good iin , ,siuu
cherishes. It says, i (tiros : prophet is grea : the
Quran is greater than the Itronia. 1sliim is greater :Hon the
Quran but Cod is greater that ;Hain and is the Greatew
ni
all.
We have not cc yet Marti conscientious Thiduo
who subscribes to the tilt ieVut ee of God, -
ever true he might be in his tHal, will ne
• admitted to the Pits rinse, I , tla Vale ;Presence, ,-;-
through personal meth:flint; f .- I 'rootlet of the Qa r:..
That is
in a nutshell. the al truth which 1 -dm,