Muhammad the Greatest

by Ahmad Deedat

page 26

CHARGE OF FALSITY
 
 4a. "A FALSE MAN FOUND A RELIGION? WHY,
    A FALSE MAN CANNOT BUILD A BRICK
    HOUSE! IF HE DOES NOT KNOW AND
    FOLLOW TRULY THE PROPERTIES OF
    MORTAR, BURNT CLAY AND WHAT ELSE
    HE WORKS IN, IT IS NO HOUSE THAT HE
    MAKES, BUT A RUBBISH HEAP. IT WILL
    NOT STAND FOR TWELVE CENTURIES,¹
    TO LODGE A HUNDRED-AND EIGHTY
    MILLIONS;²  IT WILL FALL STRAIGHTAWAY
    . . . SPECIOSITIES ARE SPECIOUS³ . . . IT
    IS LIKE A FORGED BANK NOTE; THEY
    GET IT PASSED OUT OF THEIR
    WORTHLESS HANDS: OTHERS, NOT
    THEY, HAVE TO SMART FOR IT. NATURE
    BURSTS-UP IN FIRE-FLAMES, FRENCH
    REVOLUTIONS AND SUCH-LIKE,
    PROCLAIMING WITH THE TERRIBLE
    VERACITY THAT FORGED NOTES ARE
    FORGED."
      Heros and Hero-Worship ), p. 58  
  b."IT GOES GREATLY AGAINST THE
    IMPOSTER THEORY, THE FACT THAT HE
    LIVED IN THIS ENTIRELY
    UNEXCEPTIONABLE, ENTIRELY QUIET
    AND COMMON PLACE WAY, TILL THE
    HEAT OF HIS YEARS WAS DONE. HE
    WAS FORTY BEFORE HE TALKED OF ANY
    MISSION FROM HEAVEN . . ALL HIS
    'AMBITION,' SEEMINGLY, HAD BEEN,
    HITHERTO, TO LIVE AN HONEST LIFE; HIS
    'FAME,' THE MERE GOOD OPINION OF
    NEIGHBOURS THAT KNEW HIM..."
      Heros and Hero-Worship, p. 70  

 1. Now, fourteen centuries.
 2. A thousand million today.
 3. Specious: Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false.
  

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