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Recantation under Islam. Commenting on this assertion, the Court of Inquiry observed:. According to this doctrine, Chaudhri Zafrullah Khan must be executed if he has not inherited his present religious beliefs, but has elected of his own free will to be an Ahmadi. And the same fate should befall Deobandis and Wahabis, (including Maulana Muhammad. Shafi Deobandi, member, Board of Talimat-i-Islami attached to the. Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, and Maulana Daud Ghaznavi) if any one of the ulema (shown perched on every leaf of a beautiful tree in the fatwa (Ex. D. E. 14) were the head of such an Islamic state. And if Maulana Muhammad Shafi Deobandi were the head of the state, he would exclude those who have been pronounced by Deobandis to be kafirs from Islam. He would then execute them, if they came within the definition of murtadd, namely, if they had changed and not inherited their religious views. . The genuineness of the fatwa (Ex. D. E. 13) by the Deobandis (which says that Ithnashri Shias are kafirs and murtadds) was questioned in the course of our inquiry. But Maulana Muhammad Shafi examined the subject from Deoband and received from the records of that institution the copy of a fatwa signed by all the teachers of the. Darul Uloom, including Maulana Muhammad Shafi himself. The records say, in effect, that those who do not believe in the sahabiyyat of Hazrat Siddiq Akbar and who are qazif of Hazrat Aisha Siddiqa and have been guilty of tehrif of the Quran, are kafirs. This opinion is also shared by Mr Ibrahim Ali Ghishti who knows and has studied this subject. He thinks the Shias are kafirs because they believe that Hazrat. Ali shared the prophethood with our Holy Prophets. He refused to answer the question of whether a Sunni who changed his views and agrees with the Shias is guilty of irtidad, thus deserving death. According to the Shias, all Sunnis are kafirs and Ahl-i-Quran - persons who consider hadith unreliable and therefore not binding - are also kafirs. . So are all independent thinkers. The net result is that neither Shias nor. Sunnis nor Deobandis nor Ahl-i-Hadith nor Brelvis are Muslims. And that, if the government of the state is run by a party which considers the other party to be kafirs, then any change from one view to another must result in the death penalty. . It does not take much imagination to judge the consequences of this doctrine when it is remembered that no two ulema have ever agreed before us on the correct definition of a Muslim. Indeed, if all their definitions are taken in total, the grounds on which someone may be indicted for apostasy would be too numerous even to count. 4 45 73