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difficulty in accepting Islam as the only true religion and
Prophet Muhammad as the Prince of all the Prophets and Worshipers
of God. We cannot magnify the greatness of Allah by con-
ceiving Him now as a "Father," now as a "Son," and now
as a "Holy Ghost," or to imagine Him as having three persons
that can address each other with the three singular personal
pronouns: I, thou, he. By so doing we lose all the true con-
ception of the Absolute Being, and cease to believe in the
true God. In the same way, we cannot add a single iota to
the sanctity of the religion by the institution of some meaning-
less sacraments or mysteries; nor can we derive any spiritual
food for our spirits from feeding upon the corpse of a pro-
phet or an incarnate deity; for by so doing we lose all idea
Prophet Muhammad as the Prince of all the Prophets and Worshipers
of God. We cannot magnify the greatness of Allah by con-
ceiving Him now as a "Father," now as a "Son," and now
as a "Holy Ghost," or to imagine Him as having three persons
that can address each other with the three singular personal
pronouns: I, thou, he. By so doing we lose all the true con-
ception of the Absolute Being, and cease to believe in the
true God. In the same way, we cannot add a single iota to
the sanctity of the religion by the institution of some meaning-
less sacraments or mysteries; nor can we derive any spiritual
food for our spirits from feeding upon the corpse of a pro-
phet or an incarnate deity; for by so doing we lose all idea