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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Islam the Religion of Mankind The Originality of the Messages and Later Distortions The course of the divine messages from the very beginning had to encounter arrogant attempts by ignorant elements, bent upon effacing them or at least distorting their true message and principles. No efforts were spared by the infidels in creating obstacles to hinder the progress of religion, stop its spread and empty it of its reformative contents.

The prophets were persecuted by these tyrants and even martyred. The tyrants vainly thought that they would be able to blot the call of delivery and redemption and keep humanity in bonds. But the most serious danger faced by the divine calls, was from the hypocrites and counterfeits. These pretended to accept the divine messages, but no sooner had a prophet died, they distorted and fabricated his teachings and scripture, in order to exploit the masses for their own selfish interests.

An outstanding example of this forgery are the Jewish rabbis and Christian priests, who so frequently changed, altered, added and deleted to the divine messages revealed through the Prophets Moses (a.s.) and Jesus (a.s.), that these were turned into semi-pagan religions having obscure rituals, with virtually nothing divine remaining therein.

The pure monotheistic religion - Islam - preached by Moses (a.s.) and Jesus (a.s.) was polluted in the course of time by the sediments of the rabbis' and priests' devious thoughts, and assumed deformed and legendary mythical shapes, far removed from intellect and reason and mocked at by correct learning. Falsification and deviation of messages gradually made the one single faith, into different distorted religions.

The religion so defined by the imaginations of the priests, had nothing but legends and fables, stagnancy and petrification, and made mankind prostrate before tyrants and despots - a state which caused people to dislike belief, and encouraged the waging of a war of hostility against the very idea of religion.

Mankind was absolutely justified in taking such a hostile attitude towards these forged and distorted illusions, and in recoiling from such fossil understandings which were neo-paganism in disguise. In stark contrast to the monotheistic creed, prophets were worshipped as sons of God - a clear influence of pagan Roman beliefs on Christianity.