newborn baby, the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, spoke in the cradle. He was likewise granted other miracles thereafter, yet this dissolute nation charged Jesus with performing magic. They claimed he was a magician, the son of a prostitute, and accused his mother of being a whore.

   They accused Lot (a prophet and the cousin of a prophet, Abraham, peace be upon them both) of copulating with both of his daughters and getting them pregnant while he was drunk on alcohol. They called Solomon (peace be upon him) a magician king and his father an annointed king. They claimed that Joseph (peace be upon him) unfastened the waistband of his pants and the waistband of his master's wife's pants and that he sat with her as a man does with his wife, when the wall opened up and he saw his father, Jacob, biting his nails in dread. They claim that he did not get up until the Angel Gabriel (peace be upon him) descended and said, "Oh Joseph, how can you be an adulterer and be counted before Allah as one of the prophets?" Only at this point, according to their claim, did Joseph get up and leave.

This is what they say, and there are many more examples of their blasphemous statements and false accusations.

Indeed the Jews only dared to make such blasphemous claims because of their impatience with humiliation and enslavement. They accused the Prophet Muhammad (sws) of lying, they fought him and tried to kill him, but Allah Almighty protected him and His religion. Yet despite all these lies, they describe themselves as clusters of grapes, while the rest of mankind is the thorns surrounding these clusters.

   This is merely a product of their ignorance and insolence, for to take care of grapes, thorns need only be placed at the tops of the walls for protection. Amongst all the peoples of the world, we see that the Jews have suffered at the hands of men and have forever been humiliated by other nations. Their position among nations is trivial, as is the way people treat thorns.  

The Christians say terrible things about Allah as well. Among them, there are those who say that Jesus is Allah, there are those who say that Jesus is the son of Allah, and there are those who say that Allah is the third of three, and may Allah be glorified and exalted above that which they claim. They say that Allah, the Glorified and Exalted, has taken a son though this is a charge of defect or incompleteness. Indeed, it would not be befitting for Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, to take a son, for He has no need of a son.