Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 167
KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH 167 then they performed their Z uhr Prayer. They presumed that if the issue of Jum‘ah Prayer was correct then they were safe and so also if Z uhr prayer was true. They called it I h ti yati (precaution) instead of Z uhr Prayer. And they believed that if God rejected their Jum‘ah Prayer then they would present their Z uhr Prayer and vice versa. If anybody did not perform I h ti yati , he was presumed to be a Wahhabi. An Incident of Maulaw i Ghulam Ali The Promised Messiah as used to say that once he went to Gurdaspur with Maulaw i Ghulam Ali. It was time for Jum‘ah Prayer on their way. They went to a mosque for Prayer. The practice of the Promised Messiah as was somewhat similar to that of Wahhabis because they considered it necessary to practice according to A ha d i th and their faith is that it is necessary to practise the sunnah of the Holy Prophet sa for salvation; so he accompanied Maulaw i Ghulam Ali and performed the Jum‘ah Prayer. After the Jum‘ah Prayer, Maulaw i Ghulam Ali performed four rak‘ a ts of Z uhr Prayer. When he was questioned about the four rak‘ a ts of Z uhr Prayer, he said that it was I h ti yati. The Promised Messiah as asked Maulaw i Sahib that being a Wahabbi why had he done contrary to his faith? What did mean by I h ti yati ? He said that it was not in the sense that God would accept his Jum‘ah Prayer or Z uhr but it was in this sense that people might not raise an objection on his doing so.