Mahzarnama (The Memorandum) — Page 159
Mahzarnama 159 Printer: Syeed Mahmood Ahmad Rizvi, Co-operative Capital Printing Press, Lahore. Office of Rizwaan, interior Dehli Darwaaza, Lahore, Pakistan] Maulana Wali Hasan Tonki has the following to say about the rules of Shariah which apply to the aforesaid group: "Ghulam Ahmad Pervez is a kaafir according to the Shariah of (Hadhrat) Muhammad, and he is outside the pale of Islam. Neither a Muslim woman can continue to remain in valid marriage with him, nor can any Muslim woman now marry him. Neither his funeral prayer will be held, nor shall it be legitimate to bury him in a Muslim graveyard. And this decision is applicable not only to Pervez but to all the kaafirs; and it would also apply to every one of his followers who affirms the former's tenets of disbelief (kufr). And since he is determined to be a murtad, therefore it is illegitimate, according to Shariah, retain any kind of Islamic affiliation with him. " [Wali Hasan Tonki, ghafar Allah, Mufti and Professor, Madrasa Arabiyya Islamia, New Town, Karachi, and Muhammad Yusuf Binori, Sheikh-ul-Hadith, Madrasa Arabiyya Islamia, New Town, Karachi, Pakistan] An organ of Jama'at-e-Islami, Tasneem, contained this fatwa : ". . . . If those who give this advice imply that Shariah only comprises of the Holy Quran, and the rest is not Shariah then this is definitely kufr (disbelief), and very much like the kufr of Qadianis—albeit much more hardened and intense. " [Article by Maulana Ameen Ahsan Islaahi; the Daily Tasneem, Lahore, 15 August, 1952, p. 12] 5. Or, should we pray behind the Shi'as about whom the ulema of the generality of Muslims have warned in the following hair- raising words: "The definitive, unequivocal, degree by general consensus against these Raafizis and Tabarra'is is that these are, in general, kaafir and murtad; the animal slaughtered at their hands (sic. for