Religious Problem in India

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

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law of Abraham the orthodox? Since God took Abraham for His friend."*
THE RELIGIOUS PROBLEM IN INDIA
In that sense only is Islam the one religion; all men of every faith who surrender themselves to God are truly children of Islam, in the sens ense in which the Prophet of Islam used the word. It is nothing if his followers have narrowed it in later days. I appeal to the Prophet against his followers; as I have often appealed to the Christ against the Christians, and to the Rşhis against the modern Hindus. "On a certain day we will call all men to judgment with their respective leaders: and whosoever shall have his book given him into his righthand, they shall read their book with joy and satisfaction." "As to the true believers, and those who Judaize, and the Sabians, and the Christians, and the Magians, and the idolators: verily God shall judge between them on the Day of Resurrection."‡ "We have not appointed thee a keeper over them [idolators]; neither art thon a guardian over them. Revile not the idols which they invoke beside God, lest they maliciously revile God without knowledge."§"Unto every one of you have we given a law and an open path; and if God had pleased He had surely made you one people. But He hath thought fit to give you different laws, that He might try you in that which He hath given you respectively. Therefore strive to excel each other in good
* Ibid, Chap. v. + Ibid, Chap. xvii. Ibid, Chap. xxii. § Ibid, Chap. vi.