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Al Hamd behind the Imam while being led in congregational prayers because they are considered to be misguided sects and their practices alleged to be opposed to the Sunnis. 24 On the other side of the coin, the Hanafis or as Abdul Hafeez would like to be called, the Ahnafs have had a fatwa issued against them by the Ahle Hadeeth because their beliefs and practices are stated by the Ahle Hadeeth leadership to be against those of the Sunnis and therefore such as to lead to polytheism. 25 In fact, the Ahle Hadeeth leader, Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan of Bhopal was of the opinion that 'the word polytheists can be aptly applied to the Ahnafs as could the word polytheism be applied to their practice. 126 Hence, he stated that since most people are muqallid or conformists, more commonly known as the Hanafis or Ahnaf, the Quranic verse, Most people believe not, they are but polytheists, applies quite aptly to them, i. e. , to the Ahnafs. 127. Incidentally, the Ahnafs have also been included in another edict of kufr which also involves the followers of all four schools of Islamic Jurisprudence the Hanafi, the Shafi'i, the. Maliki and the Hanbali as well as the followers of the four Sufi orders the Chishtiyya, the Naqshbandiyya, the Qadiriyya and the Mujaddiyya. 28 How does this pir of Gujjo who professes to belong to the Ahnaf persuasion explain his statement that the 'religious scholars of Ahnafs have labelled the Ahmadi Muslims as Kafirs29 in the light of the aforementioned pronouncement against the followers of the Hanafi school of Jurisprudence also known as the Ahnaf?If he considers this fatwa against the Ahnaf of no relevance, which one is certain he would want to, then why should the fatwa of the religious scholars of the Ahnaf against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community be of any relevance? Could the author of Two in One explain this in the next edition of his grotesque book. 24. Arguments with regard to the expulsion of Wahabbis from Mosques 25. Collection of Fatwas, pp. 54/55 26. Khan, Nawab Siddiq Hasan. Iqtaraab as Sa'a, p. 16 27. Ibid. 28. Jami al Shuhood, p. 2 29. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One, p. 50 258