Arba'in — Page 69
Number Three 69 were present in that meeting were: Mirz a Khud a Bakhsh—com- panion of Naww a b Muhammad ‘Al i Kh a n; Miy an Mairaj-ud-D i n Lahori; Muft i Muhammad Sa diq; S uf i Muhammad ‘Al i , Clerk; Miy an Chittu Lahori; Khalifah Rajab D i n the Merchant, Lahori; Sheikh Yaq u b ‘Al i , Editor of the newspaper al- H akam; H ak i m Muhammad H usain Qureshi; H ak i m Muhammad H usain, the Merchant of the Ointment of ‘ I s a ; Miy an Char a gh D i n Clerk and Maulaw i Y a r Mu h ammad. He stated further that he can cite the names of many such people by way of example who made claims to be Prophets or Messengers, or Appointed Ones of Allah, and who continued to tell the people for more than twenty-three years that the word of God Almighty descends upon them, while, in fact, they were great liars. Thus, based merely on his observation, Ha fi z Sahib [Muhammad Y u suf ] insisted upon his above-mentioned claim from which it follows that the reasoning given in the Holy Quran in the verses that say that the Holy Prophet, may peace and bless- ings of Allah be on him, is from Allah is incorrect. It is as if God Almighty has totally misrepresented this argument before the Christians, Jews, and idolaters and that the past Muslim religious scholars and commentators of the Holy Quran, who presented the same argument to their opponents, did so in mere ignorance. Even Sharah ‘Aq a id Nasf i —a book that contains the Ahl-e- Sunnat beliefs—presents this argument in the form of a belief. And the ulema agree that to belittle the Quran or any one of its arguments is blasphemy. It is not clear, however, what precon- ceived notion prompted Ha fi z Sahib, despite claiming to have memorized the entire Quran, to forget the following verses of the Quran. And these are: