Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 460
464 of Allah revealed to me. If they accept and believe, you can pray along with them ; otherwise, not. " The gentleman 8aid again that his countrymen were hot tempered and were of the Shia Sect. The Promised Messiah said "Submit yourself to Allah who befriends him whose accounts with Him are clear- Tue Holy Book shows that they who believe not and reject are doomed and it is not therefore meet that any of my followers should conjoin his prayers with them. Can a living man say his prayers with the dead ? Remember then that as Allah has informed me it is unlawful (hardm\ absolutely unlawful (qatai hardm\ for you to say your prayers in the lead of him who calls me a kafir or rejects me (mukazzib) or who is in suspence (mutaraddid) Your Imam must be from amongst you, and this is what a saying of the Holy Prophet given in the Bukharee teaches OQ the point. The actual words are f&* ^ I* ) i. e. when the Promised Messiah will appear, you will have to leave the different sects and your Imam, will be one of you. Would you like to be held guilty before Allah, and be deprived of the fruits of your deeds and you be ignorant all the. while? Whosoever believes in me submits wil- lingly to what I say, holds me as the last arbiter and turns to me for decision on every disputed point. But he who does not believe in me from the sincerity of his heart, is puffed up with vanity and self-conceit. Know of him therefore that he is not of me, for he does not pay any regard to what Allah has said to me. He, therefore, finds no favour with Allah. " On the 10th January 1903 Khan Mohd A jab Khan of Zaida N. W. Frontier Province, said "Sometimes we meet people who are quite ignorant of your claims. Can we follow the lead of such people in our prayers?. " The Promised Messiah replied, " I know of no such place where my claims and teachings are unknown ; and if there be such a people, put your creed before them. If they accept it they are of you and you can say your prayers along with them ; otherwise not. In that case, say your prayers by yourself. Allah wants to create a people seperate from those who be- lieve Him not ; why then ruix up deliberately with those from whom He likes to keep you apart. "