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He said: ‘Verily I call Allah to witness and bear you (also) witness that I am quit of what you associate (with Allah).” The Arabic term /’i‘tira/ means protest and cursing. Ascribing insanity to the prophets, as well as to revolutionaries, and community reformists, who have risen up against superstition, is nothing new.

On the contrary, declaring their distance from and abhorrence of idol-worshipping and idol worshippers has always been in keeping with the spirit of all the Divine prophets which itself provides us with an example confirming that one must stand decisively against superstition. The verse says: “We say nothing but that some of…