Extreme Lies and Verdicts of Disbelief Against the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at — Page 18
Extreme Lies and Verdicts of Disbelief Against the Founder of the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jama'at [ 18 ] care of all the requirements of the teachings of the Holy Qur’an. He said: Muslims of today are no doubt included among those who say: , 11 but they are not those who can claim:. 12 ( Lecture Ludhiana, p. 47, R uha n i Khaz a ’in , vol. 20, p. 295) By saying this, he expressed all the subtleties of the situa- tion in very few words. In the matter of Muslims, he did not permit the Ahmad i s to go beyond the point the Holy Prophet sa adopted under divine command. Allah the Almighty had commanded the Holy Prophet sa : ‘O Prophet, even you are not permitted to deny them the right to call themselves Muslims; indeed, you are not even permitted, on your own, to deny their claim of being believer or to make any such demands. ’ The light that the history and actions of the Holy Prophet sa throw upon the subject in respect of these limits and conditions is that nobody has the right to label someone else as non-Muslim [contrary to his own claim]. Accordingly, the Promised Messiah as has never used the term non-Muslim for his opponents. How- ever, as regards the issue of declaring a Muslim as disbe- liever, he said: 11. We have entered the fold of Islam. 12. We have believed.