THE VOICE

 Human Excellence "Prescribed" In All Fields of Conduct

Allah teaches us to slay clean and mercifully. If you saw the Hollywood picture of the Crusades you saw Richard the Lion Heart with a big heavy sword. It weighed so much, it required training I guess for ten months or more before the King could lift it up. King Richard's sword was a big long heavy piece of iron. It did not have to be very sharp. If he hit anything with it, the thing hit by Richard's sword would break.

To the contrast, Salahuddin who is called Sala-din in the Hollywood made movie based upon the story of the Crusades was the Muslim Emir (ruler) and General with a very light sword. He would swing it and it would sing, for the metal was so thin and light. They met for a truce and were having a test as to which weapon was more efficient in battle.

King Richard the Lion Heart with the big heavy sword brought it down on something and the thing hit was broken into. Salahuddin responding took a silk handkerchief and threw it up and held his sword out. The Handkerchief fell on Salahuddin's sword and onto the floor in two pieces. The General Salahuddin did not have to hit the handkerchief at all. He let it fall on the sword and the silk handkerchief split into two pieces.

This same Salahuddin had a chance to kill King Richard the Lion Heart. Salahuddin stealthily made his way into the enemy camp and found King Richard sick. Salahuddin was also a doctor of medicine. Isn't this ("Islam") a comprehensive religion? You see the m an who is leading the army for the Muslims is also a physician.

And by the way, the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization is a medical physician, with a Ph.D. (Yasser Arafat).