Religious Problem in India

Author(s): Annie Besant
Publisher: Theosophist Office Adyar

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ISLAM
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whether he shall be admonished and the admonition shall profit him? The man who is wealthy thou receivest respectfully; whereas it is not to be charged on thee, that he is not cleansed : but him who cometh unto thee earnestly seeking his salvation, and who feareth God, dost thou reject. By 110 means shouldst thon act thus. "* Ever after, when the Prophet sa w the blind man, he treated him with great respect, saying: “This man is welcome, on wliose account my Lord hath reprimanded me;" and he made him governor of Medina twice.
So great a man was the Prophet of Arabia, speaking out the word of rebuke to himself as readily as of admonition to his followers. Such a man was Muhammad the Prophet.
But the persecution is terrible and grows more terrible, and at last his disciples fly in every direction, till all are gone but one, and the Prophet, who will not fly, and his uncle who has never joined him, Abū Tālib, the noble. He comes to him and says: “O son of my brother, give up this work, resign this hopeless cause." "Nay," said the Prophet, “O my umele, if they placed the sun on iny right hand, and the moon on my left to force me to renounce my work, verily I would not desist therefrom until God made manifest llis cause, or I perished in the attempt.” And then, because the human heart in him is broken, because his wicle, his protector, his beloved, is turniing from bim, he throws his mantle across his face to
* Al Quran, Chap. lxxx." He frowned." Sale's Quran does not give the verses -a great inconvenience.