Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 483
15 May 1908 483 components of Salat to be absurd acts. To them, the Prophet was illiterate as were his companions, and this commandment was appropriate for them alone. This is one extreme. The second kind of people are those who trivialize. They have usurped the rights of Islam. The ascetics have invented a variety of their own methods of remembrance of God. Allah the Exalted says, ‘You are وَّسَطًا ً اُمَّۃ [A people following the middle path]. ’ Therefore, one should be moderate and it is incumbent to take the middle path. I Do Not Declare Anyone who Subscribes to the Kalimah as being Outside the Pale of Islam Then a respected guest (Mr. Fazal Husain, Barrister at Law) stated that if all non-Ahmadis are called kafirs then Islam is left with nothing. The Promised Messiah as said: I do not consider anyone who affirms the Kalimah to be outside the pale of Islam until he becomes a kafir [disbeliever] himself by declaring me to be a kafir. You may not know perhaps that after I proclaimed having been appointed by God, Muhammad Husain Maulawi Abu Saeed of Batala very painstakingly pre- pared a fatwa [religious verdict] in which it was declared that this person is a kafir [disbeliever], dajjal [deceiver], and zall [misguided one]; that no one should offer my funeral prayer; and anyone exchanging greetings of peace with me or shaking hands with me or considering me a Muslim would be a kafir just as well. Now, pay heed!! It is a universally accepted precept that if anyone calls a Muslim kafir , he himself becomes one. How can I deny this precept? You tell me what is my option in these