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This faith in the true God is manifest in every person
who professes himself a Muslim. The mark and the
evidence of this ingrained faith in a Muslim shines
brilliantly when he affirms, “Ana muslim, Alhamud
li’lLahi (“I am Muslim; praised be Allah!”). What is
more impressive and singularly obvious a sign of a holy
faith than the hatred and repugnance which a Muslim
feels against any other object of worship besides God?
Which of the two is holier in the sight of God: he who
worships his Creator in a simple building of the Mosque,
or he who worships the fourteen pictures and images
representing the scenes of the Crucifixion in a building
whose walls and altars are adorned with the idolatrous
statues, its ground covering the bones of the dead, and its
dome decorated with the figures of angels and the saints?

(b) The sanctification by the Holy Spirit and fire
that God works upon the spirit of a Muslim is that He
impregnates and fills it with love for, and submission to,
Him. An honourable husband would rather divorce his
beloved consort than see her sharing his love with any
other man. The Almighty will cast away any “believer”
who associates any other object or being with Him [1] .
The Muslim’s love for Allah is not theoretical or idealistic
but practical and real. He will not hesitate for a moment to
expel from his house his wife, son, or friend if he should
blaspheme the Holy Name or Person. A pagan or a person
of other religion may show a similar furious zeal for
his object of worship. That love which is shown for the
One True God is holy and sanctified; and such love can
only exist in the heart of a Muslim. Those auspicatory
and doxological formulæ “Bismi ’lLahi” and Alhamdu
li’lLahi,” which mean, respectively, “In the name of Allah”
and “Praised be Allah” at the beginning and the end of

[1] Quran,4:48. Allah forgiveth not that partners should be set up with Him; but He
forgiveth anything else, to whom He pleaseth; to set up partners with Allah is to
devise a sin Most heinous indeed.(Editors).