Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 288
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 288 They are unable, as yet, to declare their faith due to certain valid, albeit very private, reasons. Nonetheless, they are not 1 ۤاَل ىٰلِا ِءٓاَلُؤٰۤه َو ۤاَل ىٰلِا ِءٓاَلُؤٰۤه ۤاَل ىٰلِا ِءٓاَلُؤٰۤه َو ۤاَل ىٰلِا ِءٓاَلُؤٰۤه. They have expressed to you their faith and the sincerity of their devotion. Such people are not culpable. And then there are those people who present themselves as not being from among those who declare me to be a disbe- liever—these people should make a public announcement stat- ing that they are not from among those who declare me to be a disbeliever and that they dissociate themselves from those who call me a disbeliever etc. In fact, they should also write that those who declare me to be a disbeliever are themselves disbelievers, in accordance with the hadith 2 of the Holy Prophet s as , due to having declared a Muslim to be a disbeliever. Notwithstanding, it is not the way of the believers that they should come to us quietly and pretend they are one of us, and when they go to the opponents, they become one of them. I do not have the knowledge of the unseen so as to know the state of one’s heart. This avenue is available to them by which they can become—if they do not have the affliction of hypoc- risy in their hearts—a distinct community by dissociating from those who call me a disbeliever. However, if their case is akin to: 3 ْيِف ْمِهِبْوُلُق ٌضَرَّم١ۙ ُمُهَداَزَف ُهّٰللا اًضَرَم ْيِف ْمِهِبْوُلُق ٌضَرَّم١ۙ ُمُهَداَزَف ُهّٰللا اًضَرَم and they, indeed, have the fire of hypocrisy in their hearts, their affliction will increase even more by this method and will become exposed. 1. Belonging neither to these nor to those ( S u rah an-Nis a ’, 4:144). [Publisher] 2. S a hih al-Bukh a r i , Kit a bul-Adab, Hadith 6103 [Publisher] 3. In their hearts was a disease, and Allah has increased their disease to them ( S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:11). [Publisher]