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12 SLANDERS ON MUSLIMS IN HISTORY

tained them with endless means of sustenance. They choose
denial because of their zeal for life and preference of this
world over the Hereafter, and because they seek to escape
the responsibility that believing in Allah's religion will bring
upon them. They do not wish to feel answerable to anyone
and so ignore the fact that one day they will be brought to jus-
tice for their evil, immoral, and sinful deeds. For these rea-
sons, they perceive all who remind them of Allah, the moral
values of the religion, and the Day of Judgment virtually as a
threat.
As a consequence of this mistaken idea, they either try to
hinder the believers or try to force them to return to their false
religion. As we learn from the Qur'an, people who are far
removed from the Qur'an's morality use various dark methods
to achieve their ambitions. For example, they plot, scheme,
and conspire against believers; torture them; and try to hurt
them with mockery or slander. Thus, they try, in their own
eyes, to derail them and wear them down. Allah reveals that
such attacks have never succeeded:
If they come upon you, they will be your enemies and
stretch out their hands and tongues against you with
evil intent. They would dearly love [for] you to become
unbelievers. (Surat al-Mumtahana, 2)
The source of the slanders examined in this book is
those who, in the words of the Qur’an, “ “stretch out their hands
and tongues against believers with evil intent.” Over the com-
ing pages, we will see that slander, which has been handed
down from generation to generation over thousands of years
as if it were an inheritance, is the method used by those who