Truth Prevails — Page 99
( 99 ) Further: “Allah admonishes you never to return to the like thereof, if you are believers. ” (24:19) Unfortunately, however, if our dear Mr. Faruqi is bent upon totally divesting himself of the mantle of human decencies, we cannot help it; we leave him to his own unfortunate devices, in ignorant, or willfull defiance, of the commandments from the Lord. Further says the Holy Book: “Those who love that immorality should spread among the believers will have a painful punishment in this world and the Hereafter, And Allah knows while you know not. ” (24:20) These verses of the Holy Book should more than amply suffice to show Mr. Faruqi and his friends, how they stand on the questions they have tried to rake up, to discredit Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II. The Fraud of Mobahila In his reference to Mistri Abdul Karim, Mr. Faruqi has also said that this man put forth a serious allegation against Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II, and threw a challenge to him for a mobahila on the issue, which straight cut road to a heavenly decision, Khalifatul Masih II has been avoiding, under various pretexts. We gladly take this opportunity to state the precise position. The Promised Messiah has held that recourse to mobahila is justified, exclusively, where i) a man who does not hold belief in Islam, likes to have the issue decided in a direct reference to Allah, by means of, prayer and supplication, that the party on the right path be upheld, the other put into distress and destroyed, ii) where a man raises a serious scandal against an innocent party, with intent to drag it into the mire. We accept the view that a recourse to mobahila is justified in these two cases alone. There is no provision to support the challenge of a party to mobahila which flings a calumny against another party, then tops that allegation with challenge for mobahila. In a case of accusation the accused and the wronged party would be justified to propose recourse to mobahila , not the accuser. The Islamic Sharia does not envisage a mobahila at the instance of the party that manufactures a scandal, then tops it with a challenge for mobahila. So there is no question here of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II being evasive over a justified challenge. The true position is that the throwing out the challenge has no valid basis in the Islamic Sharia for the stand taken by it. The challenge being unjustified, un-Islamic, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih was never free to upset the principles of the Sharia by accepting this challenge.