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13. The rest of the book is divided into twelve chapters the earlier portions purporting to describe the perverted morals of Arab society at the time of the appearance of the Prophet. Here reference is made to the general prevalence at that time of drunkenness, superstition, adultery, incest and bestiality and it is asserted that although the Prophet posed as a reformer of morals he became in fact "a victim of all the vices just enumerated."
14. When examined before us with reference to this particular passage the writer deposed that what he meant to convey by it was that while Mohammad professed to condemn these immoral practices he nevertheless sanctioned them in the law (shariat) which he promulgated for the guidance of Islam.