A Conclusive Argument in Favour of Islam — Page 30
Sheikh Muhammad Husain Abu Sa’id is in an extremely precarious state these days. He considers me to be a disbeliever and in his edict many of his elders have gone even further to denounce me as the worst of disbelievers. He has also put his elderly teacher, Nazeer Husain of Delhi, into the same difficult situation. Holy is Allah! A man believes in Allah, the Glorious, and His Noble Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him; observes prayer and fasts regularly; is among those who turn their faces towards the Ka’bah; acts in exact conformity with the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him; yet Mr Batalvi labels him an infidel, rather the worst of disbelievers and a permanent inmate of Hell. And he does so simply because the person in question believes the Messiah, peace be upon him, to have died according to the following clear statement of the Holy Quran: 9 ْ ْتَنِي ی تَوَفَّ فَلَمَّا Moreover, based on the prophecies of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, the accused believes that the Promised Messiah will be 9 ‘But since You caused me to die. . . ’ ( al-Ma’idah 5:118)