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affect other people, but to change the Law of God and the
established holy days or festivals would naturally subvert
the religion altogether. The first two commandments of the
Law of Moses (pbuh) , concerning the absolute Oneness of
God -“Thou shalt have no other gods besides me”- and the
strict prohibition of making images and statues for worship
were directly violated and abrogated by the edict of
Constantine. To proclaim three personal beings in the Deity
and to confess that the Eternal Almighty was conceived
and born of the Virgin Mary is the greatest insult to the
Law of God and the grossest idolatry. To make a golden
or wooden image for worship is abominable enough, but
to make a mortal an object of worship, declare him God
(!), and even adore the bread and the wine of the Eucharist
as “the body and blood of God,” is an impious blasphemy.

Then to every righteous Jew and to a Prophet like
Daniel, who from his youth was a most devoted observer
of the Mosaic Law, what could be more repugnant than
the substitution of the Easter for the Paschal Lamb of the
great feast of the Passover and the sacrifice of the “Lamb
of God” upon the cross, and upon thousands of altars
every day? The abrogation of the Sabbath day was a direct
violation of the fourth command of the Decalogue, and
the institution of Sunday instead was as arbitrary as it is
inimical. True, the Quran abrogated the Sabbath day, not
because the Friday was a holier day, [1] but simply because
the Jews made an abuse of it by declaring that God, after
the labour of six days, reposed on the seventh day, as if He
were man and was fatigued. Muhammad (pbuh) would have
destroyed any day or object, however holy or sacred, if it
were made an object of worship intending to deal a blow
or injury to God’s greatness and glory. But the abrogation
of the Sabbath by the decree of Constantine was for the
institution of the Sunday on which Jesus (pbuh) is alleged

[1] According To the Islamic concept, Friday is a holy day. (Editors).