Mahzarnama (The Memorandum) — Page 186
186 Mahzarnama called female or male deities (devi and devta). 26 [Tajdeed-O-Ih'yaa-e-Deen, 4th ed. , p. 10, footnote] 5. The Holy Quran has neither the orderly arrangement nor the style of a book. [Preface to Tafheem-ul-Qur'an, p. 25] 6. Hadhrat Abu Bakr Siddique committed mistakes. [Tarjumaan-ul-Qur'an, vol. 33, no. 2; p. 99] 7. Hadhrat Umar's heart could not be rid of his passion for megalophilia (Jazba-e-Akaabir Parasti). [Tarjumaan-ul-Qur'an, vo. 12, no. 4, p. 295, quoted in Maudoodiyyat ka Postmortem, p. 38] 8. Hadhrat Khalid bin Waleed could not definitively judge the boundaries of the un-Islamic sentiments. [Tarjumaan-ul-Qur'an, vo. 12, no. 4, p. 295, quoted in Maudoodiyyat ka Postmortem, p. 38] 9. The basic philosophy of Islamic Sufism (Islami tasawwuf) contains a gigantic fault. [Tarjumaan-ul-Qur'an, vo. 37, no. 1, p. 10] 10. It is not right to accept, without criticism, the Ahadith reported by Bukhaari Sharif. [Tarjumaan-ul-Qur'an, vol. 39, p. 117] 11. It is an error on the part of Muslims to call the history from the era of the Holy Prophet sa to that of Mustafa Kamaal as "Islamic. " [Tarjumaan-ul-Qur'an, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 7] 12. Ahle Hadith, Hanafis, Deobandis, Barelvis, Shias, Sunnis— all these denominations are born of ignorance. [Khotobaat, p. 76, by Maulana Abul A'ala Maudoodi] 26 This sentence has been expunged from the recent editions of the book