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40 SLANDERS ON MUSLIMS IN HISTORY

Accused of Insolence

One of the most common wrongful slanders throughout
the history against righteous Muslims has been insolence.
Every society dislikes this quality, and so the reason for mak-
ing such a false accusation is always the same: to prevent
people from adopting the Qur'an's morality. People naturally
despise such individuals and do not want to be associated
with or compared to them. Unbelievers, who are well aware of
this psychology, want to take advantage of it by, on the basis
of their own base mentalities, accusing Muslims of having
such qualities. The fact is, however, that every believer knows
that Allah is the Lord of all, and is modest and pleasant-
natured in the awareness of that fact.
The Prophet Saleh (as) was a messenger who had to face
such a wrong and groundless accusation:
[The people of] Thamud denied the warnings. They said:
“Are we to follow a human being, one of us? Then we
would truly be misguided, quite insane! Has the
Reminder been given to him of all of us? No indeed! He
is an impudent liar.” [Allah said:] “They will know tomor-
row who the impudent liar is.” (Surat al-Qamar, 23-26)
As revealed in these verses, the Prophet Saleh's (as)
people could not stand the idea that one of them should be
graced by Allah and chosen to be His messenger. For this
reason, they met His blessed, faithful, modest, devout, and
moral prophet with hatred. When he began to call his people
to the righteous path, the Qur'anic morality, and true religion,
they slandered him. Such verbal attacks might seem to be a