Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 101
Lecture Ludhiana 101 My Tenet is to Follow the Noble Quran & the Holy Prophet, may Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon Him With great sadness and pain in my heart, I declare that not only were people hasty in opposing me, but also callous. The only dispute between us was the death of the Messiah, which I proved—and continue to prove—on the authority of the Noble Quran, the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet, may peace and bless- ings of Allah be upon him, the consensus of the Companions ra , logical arguments, and earlier books. Texts conforming with the Hanafi school of jurisprudence, the Hadith, reason, and evidence based on the Shariah, were all in my favour, but before even asking me about my views fully or listening to my argu- ments, these people crossed all limits in opposing me to the extent that they deemed me a k a fir [disbeliever], and, together with this, they imputed whatever they wished to me. Honesty, righteousness, and the fear of God demanded that they should have asked me first. Had I transgressed the Word of God and the word of the Messenger, without a doubt they would have had the right to describe me in whatever terms they so desired and to call me a deceiver, an impostor, and whatnot. Nonetheless, I have been stating from the very start that to devi- ate, however slightly, from following the Holy Quran and the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, is an act of rank disbelief. This is verily my creed that whoever digresses from this path in the least belongs in Hell. Moreover, I have explained this creed with the utmost clar- ity not only in public lectures but in almost sixty of my books, and day and night, this remains my constant preoccupation. So, if these opponents fear God, was it not incumbent upon them to ask me whether such and such thing was un-Islamic? What is the reason for this, or what answer do you have for