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14 Mahzarnama complete text of the Holy Quran as it was revealed to the Holy Prophet sa. [Ghaali Shia] viii. To believe that, in Jama'at Khanas, instead of observing five daily prayers, it is permissible to pray in front of the picture of a saint, and it is permissible to address this picture of a saint in the act of prayer, instead of supplicating to God, and regard such a ritual to be a substitute for the daily prayer. [Isma'ili Sect] ix. To believe that, with the exception of the Five Blessed persons ( sic. of the family of the Holy Prophet sa ) and six others among the Companions, all the rest of the Holy Prophet's Companions—including three among the Rightly Guided Caliphs, viz. Hadhrat Abu Bakr, Hadhrat Umar and Hadhrat Uthman (may Allah be pleased with them all) had all strayed away from Islam and, God forbid, lived as hypocrites. Moreover, to believe that the first three Caliphs were, God forbid, usurpers so therefore it is permissible, indeed essential, to curse them. [Shia] x. To believe with regard to any saint that God has permeated within him, either temporarily or permanently. [Holooli Sect] The foregoing points call for careful consideration because concrete and decisive evidence exists according to which the religious divines and scholars who belong to various sects of Islam have, in due course, issued religious edicts ( fatwa ) that those who hold beliefs as noted above are certainly outside the pale of Islam even if they believe in the other essential elements of Islam. And a person who is less than sure of their disbelief is himself to be clearly regarded as outside the pale of Islam. In view of the foregoing, we make an impassioned plea that if the objective is to determine the status, within Islam, of the