Arba'in — Page 72
72 and Istifs a r, and Reverend Pfander could not think of any rebuttal to it. Despite the fact that these people have great proficiency in the study of history, they could not cite any example 1 ٭ to break this argument, and thus remained unable to respond. Yet today Ha fi z Muhammad Y u suf—being a son of Muslims—is rejecting this argument of the Quran. And this matter is not merely verbal anymore, we have a written document with Ha fi z Sahib’s signa- ture on it which he gave to my dear brother Muft i Muhammad Sa diq with the promise that he would present evidence of [the existence of ] such liars who had claimed to be appointed by God, or claimed to be Prophets or Messengers of God, and lived for more than twenty-three years after making such a claim. It should be known this gentleman belongs to the group of Maulaw i Abdullah Ghaznavi and is well known as a believer in the Oneness of God, whereas the state of their beliefs is as written here by way of example. It is not hidden from anyone that to deny arguments presented by the Quran is to deny the Quran, and if one argument of the Holy Quran is rejected, then the promise of safety and 1. ٭ In his book The Miz a n ul H aqq, Reverend Pfander only wrote the reply that observation testifies to the fact that there are millions of idol-worshippers in the world. But this is a rather worthless reply since idol-worshippers do not claim in their idol worship to being the recipi- ents of revelation from Allah. They do not say that God has commanded us to propagate idol-worship in the world. These people are misguided, they are not attributing lies to Allah. This reply has nothing to do with the topic under dispute; on the contrary, it is a fallacious analogy, be- cause the debate has to do with claiming prophethood and fabricating lies against Allah, and not simply about someone’s misguidance from the right path. Author