The Heavenly Decree — Page 6
6 A sm a n i Fai s lah Sahib stirred a furious storm among the common people, and the people of Punjab and India were greatly agitated. The people of Delhi were particularly fired up by these flaming words of Mi yan Sahib. There are sixty or seventy thousand Muslims in Delhi, and it would be a rare person among them who has neither participated in uttering abuse, curse and ridicule upon me, nor heard such things. All this is to the account of Mi yan Sahib who has accumulated it for the hereafter in his last days. He covered up true testimony and firmly instilled in hundreds of thousands of hearts the idea that I was in fact a kafir and accursed and outside the pale of Islam. I was in Delhi at the time and when I saw all this commotion, I published a special announcement addressing Mi yan Sahib, and also wrote some letters to him. With deep humility and modesty I made it clear that I am not a kafir; that Allah knows I am a Muslim, and I believe in all the articles of faith which the Ahl-e-Sunnah wal Jam a ‘at * profess, that I believe in the Kalimah 4 , that I face the Qibla when praying, that I am not a claimant to Prophethood and that, in fact, I consider such a claimant to be outside the pale of Islam. I wrote also that I do not deny the existence of the angels. I swear * Sunni. [Publisher] 4 There is none worthy of worship except Allah; and Muhammad sa is the Messenger of Allah. [Translator]