misguidance—for one who does not possess guidance cannot offer it! Or else they placate—indeed, they flatter—them so that they will not be stigmatized with labels that could cost them their positions and salaries, paying no heed to Allah’s words: “Indeed, those who conceal what We have sent down of clear proofs and guidance after We have made it clear for mankind in the Book—those are cursed by Allah and cursed by those who curse.” (1)

Alas for these Muslims! They ought to have been callers who invite all people to the religion of pure monotheism, a means of rescuing them from idolatry and its impurities. Yet, because of their ignorance of their own faith and their obedience to their desires, they have themselves become a by-word for paganism—even in the sight of the idolaters—who now describe them as being like the Jews in building mosques over graves! In his book Daʿwat al-Ḥaqq, the late Professor ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Wakeel writes (p. 176-177):

“It was this very idolatry of the Muslims that the malicious English orientalist Edward Lane recorded in his book The Modern Egyptians …”