The Institutes of Akbar 135.3.5

135.3.5

From eating the flesh of camels and lizards The Arabs have made such progress, That they now wish to get hold of the kingdom of Persia. Fie upon Fate! Fie upon Fate! Similarly other verses were eagerly seized, if they conveyed a calumny, as the verses from the ......, in which the falling out of the teeth of our prophet is alluded to. In the same manner, every doctrine and command of the Islam, whether special or general, as the prophetship, the harmony of the Islam with reason, the doctrines of Rúyat, Taklíf, and Takwín, the details of the day of resurrection and judgment,—all were doubted and ridiculed. And if any one did object to this mode of arguing, his answer was not accepted. But it is well known how little chance a man has who cites proofs against one who will reject them, especially when his opponent has the power of life and death in his hands; for equality in condition is a sine quâ non in arguing. A man who will not listen, if you bring the Qorán and the Tradition, Can only be replied to by not replying to him. Many a family was ruined by these discussions. But perhaps ‘discussions’ is not the correct name; we should call them meetings for arrogance and defamation. People who sold their religion, were busy to collect all kinds of exploded errors, and brought them to His Majesty, as if they were so many presents.