(At the time of the morning walk)
He observed:
A true Muslim is the one who bears such a love for the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, in his heart that he becomes ready to kill or be killed if someone so much as utters a word of disrespect towards the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, or even hints at it. After reading articles of the Aryas in the newspapers that they wished reconciliation with Muslims, I had presented a proposal for reconciliation in my article. But alas! They did not value it.
Note from the editor of Badr: The Promised Messiah had, after observing the abuse of the Aryas, already said in an earlier book why reconciliation with those people was not possible. Those words were printed in the book, Qadian kay Aryah aur Hamm as follows:
Our Shariah offers the message of reconciliation to them (the Aryas), whereas their unholy beliefs are shooting arrows at us instigating war. We assert that you refrain from saying the Hindu elders are deceitful and false; rather, say that these people have forgotten their true religion after the passage of thousands of years. As opposed to us, these foul-natured people hurl vile abuse at our esteemed Prophets and consider them liars and fabricators. Can anyone possibly expect reconciliation with such people?
Excelling them are the many courteous people of Sanatan Dharam, who look upon every Prophet with respect and bow their heads in deference. In my view, it may be possible for the wild beasts and wolves of the jungles to give up their meanness and to reconcile with us, but it is totally futile to think that people of such faith as these might reconcile with Muslims with sincerity of their heart. Rather, it is more unlikely than anything else for them that they, while holding such beliefs, could have true reconciliation with Muslims. Can a true Muslim bear to listen to these abuses concerning his holy and revered Prophets and yet reconcile with them? Absolutely not! Thus, to reconcile with these people is as harmful as putting a biting venomous snake inside one’s sleeve. This is a nation whose heart is extremely dark and which considers all Prophets, who were able to effect great reforms in the world, to be fabricators and liars. Neither Moses nor Jesus could escape their tongue, nor even our lord and master, His Holiness the Seal of the Prophets, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, who accomplished greater reformation throughout the world than all, and whose revived corpses are alive even today.
Later on, when there was much uproar in the newspapers encouraging reconciliation between the Muslims and Hindus, the Promised Messiah (as) presented a proposal for reconciliation in Lecture Lahore, the wording of which is as follows:
We consider this an honour to declare and publish our affirmation that Moses, peace be upon him, and Jesus, peace be upon him, and other Prophets were all holy and esteemed and chosen men of God. Likewise, the elders through whom God imparted holy guidance in the Arya faith and also the holy elders of Aryas who came afterwards like Raja Ramchandar and Krishna were all holy people and were from among those who are blessed by God.
Behold what a charming teaching it is which lays the foundation for reconciliation in the world and aims to unify all the nations of the world as one people; in other words, respecting the holy ones of all other nations. Who is oblivious to the fact that the root cause of bitter animosity is the contempt for the Prophets and Messengers who were accepted by millions of their people? How is it possible for someone to hurl filthy abuse upon one’s father and then expect the son of the abused to be pleased with him [the abuser]?
In short, we have come to you with this principle in our hand that you be a witness that we have embraced your holy ones as being from God on the basis of the aforementioned criterion, and we anticipate that you will do the same out of your spirit of reconciliation; that is, you will at least concede that the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, is a legitimate Prophet of God Almighty and truthful [in his claim].
The argument that I have presented to you is a very lucid and clear argument. If we cannot reconcile with this method, then you should remember that reconciliation will never take place and the grudges will continue festering.1
1 Badr, vol. 6, no. 52, p.4–5, dated 26 December 1907