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g not show that there is either something of unusual significance in our calling them Kafirs, ot else it is mischievous on their part to raise a hue and cry ovet it. Do not the Shias style' the Sunnis as Kafirs and 'Oice -oersa. And do not the Ahl. ;i-H adith call the H anafis Kafirs and the latter call the former Kafirs, and is it not a fact that the Chakralwis style the n. on- Chakralwis as Kafirs and the latter retaliate by stigmatising the Chakralwis as Kafirs. The Chakralwis even go so far as to declare that the non-Chakralwi Muslims consider the Quran as abrogated and what sort of a Muslim is he who believes that the Quran has been abrogated. On the other hand the non• Chakralwis allege that the Chakralwis have disgraced the Holy Prophet (peace by upon him) and it requires no great intelligence to understand that a person who disgraces the Holy Prophet cannot be looked upon a-s a Muslim. If to the great storm of kafir-making raised by these people we have added a handful of dust, we do not think we have done anything bvet which they should have lost their heads. This strange attitude of theirs reminds one of the story of the wolf and the lamb who were drinking water from the same stte·am, the wolf being high up the stream and the lamb down stream'. The wolf who had a design to devour the Iamb and was in search of an excuse said to the lamb, " ate you not ashamed of yourself that you are making the water dirty while I am drinking. " The larrib meekly replied that it was not possible for her to make the water dirty as she was drinking at a point down-· stream. On hearin'g this the wolf pounced upon her saying, "What! have you become so audacious as to make a reply to met'' and devoured her. Similarly these people out of vanity and relying upon their superior numbers, say to us that we should not include ourselves among the Muslims as we call other M·uslitns Kafirs. But don't they look to their own Fatwas printed in decorative ·designs, and published under the anthoiity of ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or even a thousand Ulema, in the form of charts which can be hung on the walls, if one liked,. as a decoration. Why ate not these self-styled representatives of the 8 crores Muslims of India provoked and why is not their jealousy for Islam and the Holy Prophet excited when they see