Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 134
134 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad laziness. The non–Muqallidin have a tendency to combine the Prayers even at the slightest of rain or if they must go to court. In fact, they even consider it permis - sible to combine the Prayers when there is no rain or any apparent reason either. However, I truthfully proclaim that we have no need to concern ourselves with this argument—nor do I wish to engage in such a debate—because inherently it is my nature that I prefer to offer the Prayers on their own time, and I hold very dear the teaching of offering the Prayers at their appointed time. In fact, even in heavy rain I naturally desire that the formal prayer be offered at its own time. Although the Shias and non–Muqallidin have had lengthy debates on this issue, I have no concern with this. Others do this only due to their own indolence. They turn to such hadith which allow relaxation and then they use them to justify their own purpose; and wherever they feel hardship, they class such narrations as fabricated and unreliable. This is not my view; rather, my belief in respect of the hadith has always been that one ought to follow any narration—even if classed as weak—that is not contradictory to the Quran and Sunnah. Now, as for the Prayers being combined at the present time, the actual fact is that I do not do this without guidance, inspiration and revelation from Allah the Exalted. There are certain matters that I do not disclose; however, most things are communicated to you. As far as God Almighty has disclosed to me in rela - tion to the combining of Prayers, I can say that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, made a magnificent prophecy in my connection which was as follows: ُۃُ ْو َٰلٰ � َاَلٰص ُ ٗہ َُْجَْمَُعُ َل َت The Prayer will be combined for him. This prophecy is now being fulfilled. It is also my belief that if something is dis - closed to me from God Almighty, for example, in relation to the authenticity or unreliability of a certain hadith, even if the literalist scholars and the Muhaddithin adjudge it as being fabricated and weak, I will conversely declare those narrations which oppose and contradict the narration in question as being a fabrication if God has disclosed to me that it is authentic. For example, there is the hadith: ْی ٰ ُّس ِْیْ ْع َ � َاْل ِ َا َ ْی ِْدِ ُھ َ َاْلَِم There is no Mahdi except for Jesus. The scholars of hadith question the authenticity of this narration, however, God p. 405 ُۃُ ْو َٰلٰ َاَلٰص ُ ٗہ َُْجَْمَُعُ َل َت