Truth About the Split — Page 147
147 Promised Messiah as to show that he regarded his deniers as kuffar. Some of the passages, quoted in the article, are reproduced here in brief: To the apostate Abdul Hakim of Patiala, he wrote: "At any rate, when the great God has revealed to me that every body whom my Call has reached and who has failed to accept my claim, is not a Muslim, and is liable to account before God, how can I at the instance of one individual, whose heart is steeped in a thousand darknesses, ignore the command of God. It is easier to cut off such a one from my Community. Accordingly from this date I hereby exclude you from the Community of my followers. " Following this, I proceeded to explain the purport of the above passage in the following words. "The above words apply not merely to those who take an active part in denouncing the Promised Messiah as ; but every person who fails to accept him is not a Muslim. Further on, I explained, in the words of the Promised Messiah as himself, the meaning he attached to the expression "reaching of Call. " This was that the Promised Messiah as had made his Call reach every part of the globe, and hence the whole world might be said to have received his Call. It was unnecessary for this purpose that the information should be carried separately to each individual. After this, I went on to prove from the