Truth Prevails — Page 66
( 66 ) to accept him, directly turns a man into a kafir , in the sense of a non-Muslim. Where a man accepts the Holy Prophet, holds the Quran to be the Word of God, but rejects the Promised Messiah, his kufr would not be of the kind which turns a man into a non-Muslim. The Promised Messiah being an Ummati Nabi , refusal to accept him, would turn a man into a kafir of an Ummati Nabi. Being a member of the Ummat-i-Muhammadia , he would be called a Muslim, but he would turn into a kafir when he declines to accept the Promised Messiah. Denial of the Promised Messiah is not kufr , directly, it is kufr indirectly just as the Nabuwwat of the Promised Messiah, is Nabuwwat indirectly. This is the soul and spirit of what the Promised Messiah has said in the following passage: “The point is worth remembering that to denounce as kafirs those who do not accept his claim, behave the position of those Prophets, alone, who bring a new Sharia. Apart from the bearer of a new Sharia , all the Mulhams and Mohaddathin in the history of the Ummat , howsoever elevated their position, even though blessed by direct communion with Allah, where a man denies them, by doing that, he does not become a kafir. ” This passage from Tiryaqul Qolub , Page 130, Mr. Faruqi has reproduced on page 22 of his Truth Triumphs. Tiryaqul Qolub , was written before 1901, so the kufr mentioned in it is kufr of the first kind. i. e. the kufr resulting from denial of a Prophet bearing a new Sharia. On the basis of this passage, someone raised a question, which the Promised Messiah has reproduced and answered in Haqiqatul Wahyi : “In thousands of places you have written that it is in no way correct and proper to say in regard to a man who believes in the Islamic Kalima , and the Qibla of the Muslims, that he becomes a kafir. It is clear from this, that apart from people who become kafir , by calling you a kafir , no one becomes a kafir merely by not yielding faith in you. But to Abdul Hakim Khan you have written that everyone reached by your message, who has not accepted you, he is no more a Muslim. In this statement, and what you have been saying in your earlier books, there is a contradiction, namely, now you say denial of your claim turns a man into a kafir. ” ( Haqiqatul Wahyi , page 163) If the Promised Messiah had answered that a man who held him to be a kafir , became thereby a kafir himself, but one who simply did not believe in him, even actively denied him, he did not become a kafir on the basis of that denial: that the enquirer had not taken in the correct meaning and sense of these passages. If the matter had been like that, the position of the Lahore Section would have been correct and proper, that one who denied the Promised Messiah would not become kafir. But the reply given by the Promised Messiah does not yield any foothold for them. Said he: