Understanding the Kashmiri Muslim

C. 285.-Let not man be intoxicated with power
Or material resources : they cannot defeat
The purpose of God. So Abraha Ashram
Found to his cost. His sacrilegious attack
On the holy Fane of God brought about
His own undoing : what seemed but frail
Destroyed his mighty hosts in a day ! The Holy Qur'an (cv. 1.5)

Understanding the Kashmiri Muslim

C. 291.-The Chosen One of God, in his earnest
Desire to proclaim the Message, gathered
His kin together to hear and judge
With open minds between error and truth.
Behold, the fiery " Father of Flame "
Blazed up with foul abuse and curses,
And said to the holy one : " Perish thou ! "
With his hands he took stones and cast them
at the holy one's head. Purse-proud he headed
Relentless persecution. His wife
Laid snares, tied thorns with twisted ropes
Of prickly palm-leaf fibre, and strewed them
In the holy one's path on darkest nights,
For cruel sport ! But lo ! the curses,
Insults, spite, harmed not the Innocent,
But hit the wrong-doers themselves
And branded them with eternal infamy ! The Holy Qur'an (exi. 1-5.)

Understanding the Kashmiri Muslim

C. 292.-Keep Faith all pure and undenied.
There is God, the One and Only;
Eternal, Free of all needs; on Whom
Depend, to Whom go back, all things;
He hath no son nor father nor partner.
There is no person like unto Him. (cxii. 1-4.) The Holy Qur'an

Understanding the Kashmiri Muslim

C. 287.-What remains if you deny all Faith
And personal Responsibility? Why then
Help the helpless or teach others
Deeds of Charity? Vain were worship
Without heart and soul. What think ye of men
Who make great show, but fail to meet
The simple needs of daily life? The Holy Qur'an (cvii 1 7 )