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3 October 1905 9 to the Government. Our Mirza Sahib 1 also gave fifty horses to the Government by way of assistance at that time. [The rest of ] India is nowhere close to the extent to which the Punjabis have accepted me. 2 3 October 1905 Denial of a Prophet Inevitably Leads to Kufr The Promised Messiah as said: The denial of a Prophet leads to kufr [disbelief ]. In fact, even the denial of a wal i [friend (of Allah)] can cause a loss of faith and ultimately lead to kufr. It is written in S a hih al-Bukh a r i , 3 ِ لِی ْ وَلِیًّا فَاٰذَنْتُہ ٗ لِلْحَرْب ِ لِی ْ وَلِیًّا فَاٰذَنْتُہ ٗ لِلْحَرْب ى َى َمَن ْ عَاد مَن ْ عَاد —meaning, whoever shows enmity towards My wal i , I call out to him to come and fight Me. God Almighty recounts the story of Bal’am—that because of his opposition to Moses, peace be on him, he became dis- graced to the extent that he was likened to a dog. Denial of a Prophet inevitably leads to outright disbelief. However, when one becomes the enemy of a wal i , he is stripped of Divine grace without even realising it. 1. Reference is to Mirza Ghulam Murtaza, the father of the Promised Messiah as. [Publisher] 2. Al- H akam, vol. 9, no. 40, p. 10, dated 17 November 1905 3. In S a hih al-B u k hari , Kit a b al-Raq a ’iq, b a b at-Taw ad u‘, Hadith 6502; it is written as: ِ ا فَقَد ْ آذَنْتُه ُ بِالحَرْب یًّ قَالَ: مَن ْ عَادَى لِي وَلِ ِ ا فَقَد ْ آذَنْتُه ُ بِالحَرْب یًّ هّٰللَّٰ قَالَ: مَن ْ عَادَى لِي وَلِ هّٰللَّٰا َّ ا َّ إِن إِن. [Publisher]