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46fanatical than ever. His hatred to Ishmael (pbuh) and his claim to the birthright makes him forget or overlook the Law of Moses (pbuh) which forbids a man to marry his own sister under the pain of capital penalty. If Paul were inspired by God, he would have either denounced the Book of Genesis as full of forgeries when it says twice (xii. 10-20, xx. 2-18) that Abraham (pbuh) was the husband of his own sister, or that he would have exposed the Prophet to be a liar! (God forbid.).But he believes in the words of the book, and his con-science does not torment him in the least when he identifies Hagar with the barren desert of the Sinai, and qualifies Sáráh as the Jerusalem above in heaven! (Gal. iv. 25, 26). Did ever St. Paul read this anathema of the La-“Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people say: Amen”? (Duet. xxvii. 22).Is there a human or divine law that would consider more legitimate one who is the son of his own uncle and aunt than he whose father is a Chaldean and his mother an Egyptian? Have you anything to say against the chastity and the piety of Hagar? Of course not, for she was the wife of a Prophet and the mother of a Prophet, and herself favoured with divine revelations [1] .The God who made the Covenant with Ishmael (pbuh) thus prescribesthe law ofinheritance, namely:if aman has two wives, one beloved and the other despised, and each one has a son, and if the son of the despised wife is the first-born, that son, and not the son of the beloved wife, is entitled to the birthright. Consequently, the firstborn shall inherit twice that of his brother (Duet. xxi. 15-17). Is not, then, this law explicit enough to put to silence all who[1] Kinds of revelation in Quran: 1-inspiration. 2-from behind a veil. 3-by the sending of messenger. (Editors)