Political Solidarity of Islam — Page 7
7 what possible connection there is between the numbers of a community and the profession of their faith ? Even if there was a single Ahmadi in the world, no power on earth could turn him out of the pale of Islam. One's faith is a matter of one's profession. Who is there so audacious as to dub a man a non-Muslim and seek to expel him from the Muslim Community when the latter protests that he is a Muslim ? So the very question of the expulsion of the Ahmadis from the Muslim Community is manifestly absurd. As long as we protest that we are Muslims, no power can exclμde us from the Muslim Community. It has been said that we forfeit our right to be Muslims by styling other people as Kafirs. But our calling other people Kafirs only means that we consider ourselves alone as true Muslims. Is it then possible for anyone to turn really true Muslims out of Islam? Our only offence, ifoffence. it can be, which makes us forfeit our right to be part and parcel of the Muslim Community is that we do not regard other people to be as true and good Muslims as we regard, ourselves. We are sought to be expelled from the Muslim Community on this plea. But what an absurd plea! If that is the offence which renders us liable to expulsion and excommunication, then I would say with all the emphasis at my command, that this is an offence which is very freely committed by all the Muslims. Is there any sect of Muslims which has· not been styled as Kafir by the other sects and vice versa. Has not Maulvi Zafar Ali Khan himself been. under a fatwa of K ufr and Maulvi Habibur Rahman and Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari too? These Ulema indulge in the game of kafir-making as a pastime. If in the vast ocean of Kitfr which already existed, we. added another drop, why should they lose temper over it? They themselves have made Kufr very cheap. According to the religious belief of men of their own ranks any person a part of whose trousers falls below his ankle is a Kafir, any person who while saying his prayers folds his hands above his navel is a Kafir, any person who raises his fore-finger while praying in sitting posture is a Kafir. Why then these people who themselves are so adept in dubbing other people as Kafirs over such trifles have lost their p~ace of mind for our calling them Kafi1·s? Does it