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A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 11 ] In other words they believe that the graves of the saints possess divine powers and they are partners of God in this sense. Based on these conceptions, there are hundreds of thousands of graves in Pakistan with various flags or rags of cloth in different colours. Each grave is said to possess an honourable quality. One grave can cure illnesses, the other can bestow children, one can give sons and the other is capable of awarding daughters. Another grave can even cure tuberculosis. In other words, whatever miraculous expectations a believer has from God—and which a true Muslim cannot imagine addressing to anyone else—are sought by these people from the dead. They even offer justification of this idea according to religious laws. According to Maulav i Ahmad Raza Khan Barelwi, it is certainly a true belief that the saints exercise their will from the graves—granting favours to some and withholding them from the others. (For details see, A h k a me-Shar i ‘at, by Ahmad Raza Khan Barelwi, vol. 2, issue 27, p. 106, Naz i r Sons Publishers, 40 Urdu B a z a r, Lahore, Pakistan) Citing the Quranic verse that says that the non-believers have become disappointed with the inhabitants of the graves—which is really a reference to the disbelievers’ denial of the resurrection of the dead—the writer infers that the disbelievers deny the powers of the graves. According to them, a clear reference from the Holy Quran proves that the dead are partners with God Almighty in