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72 who share all your religious beliefs as disbelievers. They follow the same qiblah and are averse to shirk [associating partners with God]. They regard obedience to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, as the sole basis of salvation. They believe that those who turn their back upon him are accursed, damned, and the inmates of hell. O mischievous maulaw i s! Once you die you will know what fruit this wicked impetuosity of yours brings you. Have you torn open our heart to see whether it con- tains disbelief and not faith; that it is dark and not enlightened? Be patient, this world will not last long. In your opinion, only certain mischievous maulaw i s, who are a disgrace for Islam, are Muslims while the rest of the world is kafir. Alas! How hard-hearted they have become! What veils have covered their hearts! O Lord, have mercy on this ummah and pro- tect them from the evil of these maulaw i s; guide them if they are worthy of being guided or else wipe them off the face of the earth so that evil does not spread. In fact, they are not even maulaw i s; that is why I addressed their leader, the chief mischief-maker and mentor, Sheikh Muhammad Husain Batalavi, in my book N u rul- H aqq and challenged him to present the like of that book if he had any proficiency in Arabic, and obtain the prize money of 5,000 rupees. But the Sheikh paid no attention to it despite the fact that he is like a mentor to all these people and it is at his instigations that these lifeless corpses start moving. I reiterate emphatically that the Sheikh and all his followers are just ignorant, foolish, and have no knowledge of the Arabic sciences. I wrote a commentary on S u rah al-F a ti h ah in order to test these people. Although the book N u rul- H aqq was written with a view to testing the scholarship of the Christians, some of