Religious Problem in India

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

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of both is no burden unto Him. He is the High, the Mighty." Even the woodenness of the translation cannot disguise the splendor of this << passage. God hath borne witness that there is no God but He; and the Angels, and those who are endowed with wisdom, profess the same; who executeth righteousness; there is no God but He, the Mighty, the Wise."+
Then comes next in order the belief in God's Prophets; not in one Prophet only, but in all the Prophets. Over and over again, it is declared in Al Quran, there is "no distinction between Prophets". All Prophets are from God; each is sent to his own people and does his own work. And you will find all through this Book of the Prophet that other Prophets are recognised by him and that he does not seek to interfere with them.. "Every one of them believeth in God, and His Angels, and His Scriptures and. His Apostles; we make no distinction at all between His Apostles." "Say, we believe in God, and that which hath been sent down unto us, and that which was sent down unto Abraham, and Ishmael and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which was delivered to Moses, and Jesus, and the Prophets from their Lord; we make no distinction between any of them." "Those who believe not in God and His Apostles, and would make a distinction between God and His Apostles, and say, we believe in some of the Prophets, and reject others of them, and
* Ibid, Chap. ii. +Ibid, Chap. iii Ibid, Chap. ii. § Ibid, Chap. iii.