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STRICTER DEMANDS BY OTHER SECTS. One is at a loss to understand why the publishers of Two in. One should take exception to the Ahmadiyya Muslim. Community's policy not to pray behind non Ahmadi Muslims or marry their daughters to them when this decision had been taken as a necessary step to ensure the safety and security as well as the well-being of its members after the general run of the mullah in countries wherever Ahmadi Muslims had spread had shown such hostility towards it and also refused to accept the conciliatory offer of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas. This situation is further aggravated by the fact that much stricter policies have been adopted by all other Muslim sects. Ahmadi. Muslims aside, are Dr. Rashid Ali and Abdul Hafeez not aware that according to one fatwa of 300 Sunni ulama, it is not permissible for Sunnis to have any kind of a social contact with people of Deobandi persuasion since the edict declared: * 'The Deobandis, because of their contempt and insult in their acts of worship towards the saints, prophets and even the. Holy Prophet Muhammad and the very Person of God Himself are definitely murtadd and kafir. Their apostasy and heresy is of the worst kind so that if anyone who doubts their apostasy and heresy even slightly is a murtadd and a kafir. Muslims should be very cautious of them and stay away from them. . Let alone praying behind them, one should not let them pray behind one, or allow them into mosques, or eat the animal slaughtered by them, or join them on happy or sad occasions, or let them come near one, or visit them in illness, or attend their funerals, or give them space in Muslim grace yards. To sum up, one must stay away from them completely. ' 164. What opinion would the authors of Two in One express in relation to these three hundred ulama of the Sunni tendency? 64. Ibhraim, Muhammad. Unanimous Fatwa of Three Hundred Ulama 267