Arba'in — Page 93
Number Three 93 verbally claim to believe in the Holy Quran, yet they reject its pre- sented arguments. If, believing in the Holy Quran, they had established this very principle as the standard for my being truthful or false, they would have quickly discovered the truth. However, for the sake of their hostility towards me, they now refuse to even accept this principle of the Holy Quran. They allege that if anyone makes a claim to be God’s Prophet or Messenger or an Appointee from Allah, through which God speaks to him and from time to time reveals to him the verities of the right path for the reformation of His servants, and this claim goes on for twenty-three or twen- ty-five years—that is, the period elapses which was the period of the prophethood of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him—yet the individual neither dies nor is killed during that period, then it does not necessarily follow that that individual is a true Prophet or true Messenger or a true Mu s le h and Mujaddid from God, and that God, in fact, speaks to him. Nevertheless, it is obvious that this is a statement of kufr [dis- belief ] since the falsification and disdain of the Word of God necessarily follows. Every rational person can understand that Almighty God adopted this very argumentation in the Holy Quran to establish the truthfulness of the message of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him—that had this man lied about God Almighty, I [God] would have destroyed him. All ulema know there is a unanimous consensus that making light of God’s presented arguments is kufr , because derision of rea- soning given by God concerning the Holy Quran or truthfulness of the Messenger necessitates rejecting the Holy Quran and the Messenger of God, and is clearly an act of kufr. But what is the point in feeling sorry for these people!