Reply to the Anglican Church

Reply to the Anglican Church

One time, as a artifice, a pitiless enemy of Islam, a cunning politician, a suspicious parson who wanted to swagger and show off, asked us four things: in the form of denial, at a terrible time he had his claws at our throat, in his glee at our misfortune; he wanted six hundred words. A reply was needed like a slap in the face of his glee, and his wiles, and his denial, like spitting in his face, to silence him. I won’t address him. I have the following answer for a lover of truth.

He asked first: “What is the religion of Muhammad (UWBP)?”

I replied: It is the Qur’an. The basic aims of the Qur’an are the six pillars of belief and the five pillars of Islam.

In the second he asked: “What has it given to life and thought?”

I replied: To thought, the affirmation of divine unity; to life, moderation and the middle way. My witnesses for this are

Say: He is God, the One.(112:1) ∗ Therefore stand firm [in the Straight Way] as you are commanded.(11:112)

In the third, he said: “What remedies has it for the present atrocities?”

I replied: The prohibition of usury and interest and the payment of zakat. My witnesses for this are these:

God will deprive usury of all blessing.(2:276) ∗ God has permitted trade and forbidden usury.(2:275) ∗ And be steadfast in prayer, and practise regular charity [zakat].(2:43, etc.)

In the fourth, he asked: “How does it look on man’s revolutions?”

I replied: Labour, striving, are fundamental. Wealth should not be accumulated in the hands of tyrants, and held on to. My witnesses for this:

Man has nothing save that which he strives.(53:39) ∗ Those who store up gold and silver and do not spend it in God’s way, announce to them a most grievous penalty.(9:34) ∗ ∗ ∗