Arba'in — Page 68
68 ARBAIN Muradabad; Sheikh Khalil-ur-Rahman Jamālī Sarsawah, District Saharanpur; Maulawi ‘Abdul Aziz, Ludhiana; Maulawi Muhammad, Ludhiana; Maulawi Muhammad Hasan, Ludhiana; Maulawi Ahmad Allah Amritsari; Maulawi ‘Abdul-Jabbār Ghaznavi also Amritsari; Maulawi Ghulam Rasūl, also known as Rusul Baba; Maulawi 'Abdullah Tonki, Lahore; Maulawi Abdullāh Chakralvi, Lahore; Deputy Fateh Ali Shāh-Deputy Collector Canals, Lahori; Munshi Ilāhī Bakhsh-Accountant, Lahore; Munshi Abdul Haqq-Accountant, Pensioner; Maulawi Muhammad Hasan Abul-Faiz-resident Bhayni; Maulawi Syed Umar Waʻiz, Hyderabad; Ulema-e-Nadwatul-Islam care of Maulawi Muhammad ‘Ali-Secretary Nadwatul-Ulema; Maulawī Sultān-ud-Din, Jaipur; Maulawi Masihuz-Zamān, Tutor Nizām, Shahjahanpur; Maulawi ‘Abdul Wahid Khan, Shahjahanpur; Maulawi Aʻzāz Husain Khan, Shahjahanpur; Maulawi Riāsat ‘Alī Khān, Shahjahanpur; Syed Șufi Jān Shāh, Meeruth; Maulawi Ishāq, Patiala; all Ulema of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras; all Sajjadah Nashīn [the inheritor of a spiritual endowment] and Mashā'ikh [patriarchs] of India; all people of intelligence, justice, righteousness and faith from among the Muslims. Be it known that in a meeting in Lahore, Hafız Muhammad Yūsuf, Canal Revenue Collector, under the influence of his igno- rant and misguided clerics, has stated with full confidence that if anyone falsely claims to be a Prophet, or a Messenger, or an Appointed One from Allah, and thus seeks to misguide peo- ple, that such a fraudulent person can survive for twenty-three years or more. What he means to say is that a person surviving for twenty-three years after fabricating a lie against Allah cannot serve as an argument in support of his truthfulness. Those who