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the divine laws resemble the practices of the Days of
Ignorance, the customs of a people abhorred by all nations,
it follows that there is a defect in these laws?
Or can one, God forbid, imagine that the Omnipotent
Lord was moved to comply with the opinions of the
heathen? The divine wisdom takes many forms. Would
it have been impossible for Muhammad to reveal a Law
which bore no resemblance whatever to any practice
current in the Days of Ignorance? Rather, the purpose
of His consummate wisdom was to free the people
from the chains of fanaticism which had bound them
hand and foot, and to forestall those very objections
which today confuse the mind and trouble the conscience
of the simple and helpless.
Some, who are not sufficiently informed as to the
meaning of the divine Texts and the contents of traditional
and written history, will aver that these customs
of the Days of Ignorance were laws which had come
down from His Holiness Abraham and had been retained
by the idolaters. In this connection they will
cite the Qur'ánic verse: "Follow the religion of Abraham,
the sound in faith." (16) Nevertheless it is a fact
attested by the writings of all the Islamic schools that
the months of truce, the lunar calendar, and the cutting
off of the right hand as punishment for theft,
formed no part of Abraham's Law. In any case, the
Pentateuch is extant and available today, and contains
the laws of Abraham. Let them refer to it. They will
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16. Qur'án 16:124.
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