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PRAYER AND MARRIAGE. The author of Two in One also alleges that in the beginning of this century, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as 'labelled all non. Ahmadis to be kafirs and asked his followers not to pray behind them nor marry them '30 although Hadhrat Ahmad as is on record for having declared: 'From the beginning, I have been of the view that no one becomes a kafir or a dadjaal by rejecting my claim. Such a one would certainly be in error and astray from the right path. . I do not call him faithless but he who rejects the truth which. God Almighty has disclosed to me would be in error and astray from the straight path. I do not designate anyone who believes in the Kalimah as a kafir, unless by rejecting me and calling me a kafir, he himself becomes a kafir. In this matter, my opponents have always taken a lead. they called me kafir and prepared fatwas against me. I did not take the lead in preparing fatwas against them. They would be prepared to confess that if I am a Muslim in the estimation of God. Almighty, then by calling me a kafir, they themselves become one according to the fatwa of the Holy Prophetsa. Thus I do not call them kafir but they themselves fall within the purview of the fatwa of the Holy Prophetsa 131. This statement should establish that Hadhrat Ahmadªs did not consider average Muslims to be kafirs, except if they, through calling him a kafir first fell within the purview of the fatwa of. Hadhrat Muhammadsa in which he is reported to have stated that: 'If a Muslim calls another a Kafir, then if he is a kafir, let it be so otherwise he is himself a kafir. *32 30. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One, pgs. 22 & 29 31. Ahmad, [Hadhrat] Mirza Ghulam. Tiryaqul Qulub, pp. 130/31; Ruhani Khazain, vol. 15, pp. 32. Sunan Abu Dawood, vol. 3, p. 484 432/33 259