Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 484
484 MALFUZAT ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME IO circumstances? I did not initiate any fatwa [religious verdict] against them. Now when they are called kafir, it is the conse- quence of their own proclamation [not mine]. One individual petitioned for a mubahalah [prayer duel] with me. I replied that a mubahalah is not permissible between two Muslims. He wrote in reply, 'I consider you a full-fledged kafir. This person submitted, 'If they say that you are a kafir let them, but what is the harm if you do not say the same. The Promised Messiahas said: I never call him a kafir who does not call me one. But, if I do not consider him who calls me kafir to be one himself, it would, necessarily, be antagonistic to a hadith and a unanimous reli- gious precept, and this, I cannot do. The same person asked, 'What is the harm in joining those in Prayers who do not call you a kafir?' The Promised Messiahas said: A believer is not bitten from the] لَا يُلْدَغُ الْمُؤْمِنُ مِنْ جُحْرٍ وَاحِدٍ مَّرَّتَيْنِ same hole twice']. I have tested this thoroughly that such peo- ple are, in fact, hypocrites. Their condition is: وَإِذَا لَقُوا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا قَالُوا آمَنَّا وَإِذَا خَلَوْا إِلَى شَيْطِينِهِمْ قَالُوا إِنَّا مَعَكُمْ إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُسْتَهْزِءُونَ 2 Meaning that in your presence they say they are not opposed to you but when they are among their own, they say that we 1. Şahih al-Bukhārī, Kitābul-Adab, Hadith 6133 [Publisher] 2. Surah al-Baqarah, 2:15 [Publisher]