Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 263
26 April 1907 263 Two Friday Prayers in the Same Mosque The question was presented: ‘Some mosques are of the kind that have concluded either legally or through mutual understanding that Ahmadis and non-Ahmadis have the option to offer their Prayers sep- arately there, each with their own congregations and their own Imams. At such a place, what should be done for Jumu‘ah [the Friday Prayer] as two Jumu‘ah services are not allowed in the same mosque? The Promised Messiah as said: The people who declare you as k a firs [disbelievers] and do not offer Prayers behind you, do not consider your Adh a n and your Jumu‘ah Prayer to be valid anyhow. For this reason they will go ahead and offer their own Prayers. And since they call a believer a disbeliever, they have themselves become k a fir according to the Hadith. For this reason, you also hold the view that their Adh a n and Prayers have no substance. You call your own Adh a n and offer your own Jumu‘ah with your Imam. H ajj-e-Badal [ H ajj Performed on Behalf of Someone] The heirs of a deceased Ahmadi from Khushab wrote a letter to the Promised Messiah as that the deceased had a firm intention to go for H ajj, but death did not allow him to d0 so. Is it permissible now that someone may be sponsored and sent on his behalf ? The Promised Messiah as said: It is permissible. The deceased will receive the reward of the H ajj. 1 1. Badr , vol. 6, no. 18, p. 2, dated 2 May 1907