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men, women and children. And they killed them in such a distressing manner that even now reading those accounts makes us cry. Promised Messiah to abolish fighting for religion Secondly, even if it is assumed that Islam enjoined such jihad as these Muslim priests think, then that has not remained in force in the present era as it is written in ahadith that, when the Promised Messiah will appear, then jihad with the sword and wars in the name of religion will end because the Promised Messiah will neither pick up the sword nor hold any other worldly weapon in his hands. On the contrary, his prayer will be his weapon and his resoluteness his sword. He will lay the foundations of peace and he will gather the lion and the lamb on the same bank and his era will be the time of peace, mildness and human sympathy. Lo! Sorrow, why do these people not reflect on the fact that thirteen hundred years ago the expression ? / a @A0 was uttered from the mouth of the Holy Prophet (s) about the Promised Messiah, which means that when the Promised Messiah comes he will put an end to wars? There is an indication about this in the Quranic verse8 B+ a? / a@ACa(5 which means keep fighting till the time of the Promised Messiah comes. This is B+ a? / a @AC. Look, it is in the Sahih Bukhari,9 which has been recognized as the most correct of the books after the Holy Quran, and read it carefully. O ye, the scholars and the Priests of Islam, hear my words! I truthfully say that now is not the time for jihad. Do not become disobedient to the Holy Prophet (s). The Promised Messiah, who was to come, has come and he has commanded: desist from religious wars, which are conducted with swords and bloodshed. Then not to give up shedding blood and not to stop deliver-
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“…till war lay down its burdens” — The Holy Quran, 47:4. See Translator’s Note at end of this book, on page 37.