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It was to safeguard against this sort of polytheistic worship, the worship of a dead man and his tomb, that the Holy Prophet of Islam, the greatest torch-bearer of the Unity and Oneness of Godhead, had prayed at the time of his death: ~A:! t;J s is.J':i J~ "j ~ 1 "Most High God! I beseech Thee that my tomb may not become an idol which people may worship and adore."
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Be is also reported to have said: "Curse of God be on the Jews and the Christians, for they have made the tom bs of their prophets as the objects of their worship and adoration." The teaching of Bahaullah, it can thus be easily seen, intend to pull the people back into the pre-Islamic idolatry and man- worship. In support of his quixotic claim, Bahaullah has advanced an argument from the Holy Quran, saying:
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the fire and tree, in the same way, He is today speaking through the mouth of Bahaullah. This theory of Incarnation, ftS stated in the foregoing pages, had been completely exploded and overthrown by the Holy Quran ; and it will be out of the limit of impudence and audacity to interpret its verses in support of this polytheistic principle. It is nowhere stated in the Holy Quran that the Most High God ever spoke to Moses through the agency of any material fire or tree: nor can He speak through the mouth of Bahaullah, entering into and assuming his flesh. Moses received Divine Revelation in the same manner as did the other prophets. He was journeying with his family when the call came to him; ana in order to be made the recipient of Divine Revelation, he was, under a Providential plan, separated from his companions. He saw with the spiritual eye like fire in the distance. We read in the Holy Quran (28 : 29, 30) : "Moses was travelling with his family when he perceived a fire on the side of mountain. He said to his family: Wait, I see a fire; may be I will bring to you from it some news or a brand of fire, so that you may warm yourselves. And when he came to it, he
was called from the right side of the valley in the blessed spot of the bush: o Moses, surely I am Allah, the Lord of the worlds. It is evidently clear that when Moses reached the blessed spot covered with bushes and trees, a voice came to him from the right side of the valley, and not from any tree or fire. The Law of Bahaullah has remained a deadletter ever since the time of its birth. Frustration and failure seemed to have been born with it. In the first instance, Bahaullah, the founder of the new law spent all his life behind the prison bars and could not set an example of acting up to his law for the people to follow. He, however, practised taqiyya, and directed his followers also to act in contravention of their principles when overtaken by fear of the enemy. The abrogater of the Great Law of Islam fell into disuse and became inoperative since the very first day 0 f its birth. Before proceeding further with the post-mortem examination of this still-born law, we should like to put it to the Bahais which law they have been conforming their actions to during the whole century that has passed over their movement, the Law of Islam having been abrogated
41 and the new law having been kept a sealed: secret which never saw the light of the day. Says the Most High God in the Holy Quran (2: 106): "Whatever message We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring one better than it or one like it". The Law of the Quran abrogated and abolished all previous. scriptures. And it is a matter of fact that the Holy Quran gave a law which is decidedly superior to and more comprehensive than the previous laws in most respects. If, therefore, the Kitab al-Aqdas has come to repeal and replace the Holy Quran, it should essentially give us a law which should be better than and superior to the law of the Quran, Let us, to begin with, consider the doctrine of Divine Unity which is the fundamental principle, the foundation of all revealed religions. (1) The Holy Quran, it has been admitted on all hands, has taught the Unity and Oneness of God i