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FATWA OF KUFR. One only need to read the edicts of kufr so numerously issued by the leadership of one Muslim sect against the other to realise that Abdul Hafeez, irrespective of which sect he subscribes to, has been pronounced non Muslim by non Ahmadi Muslim scholars. If he is a Wahabbi or a Deobandi, then the Barelvi leader Ahmad Raza Khan stated that both these groups are 'murtadd and kafir according to the unanimous view of. Muslims and whoever doubts their being such is himself a kafir. 18 The Barelvi leader had some grounds to state this since such a fatwa was issued against the Deoband and the Wahabbi groups by some three hundred Sunni ulama of the entire. Muslim world. They are stated to: 'have given this fatwa unanimously that the Wahabbia/. Deobandi sects are among extreme apostates and infidels. . Indeed they are infidels of such hue that any one who does not regard them as infidels is also counted among the infidels and his wife will become automatically divorced in such a situation. Any progeny from such a marriage will be illegitimate and can claim no inheritance under Muslim law. *19. In a similar fatwa issued by the Mufti and Imam of the Ka'aba and the Muftis of Medina, the Wahabbis have been declared disbelievers and apostates. The edict issued by them declares: 'The Wahabbis, in the unanimous opinion of the divines of. Mecca and Medina are disbelievers and apostates from Islam such that anyone who comes to know of their cursed writings and speeches and still doubts in their being disbelievers himself becomes a disbeliever. 120 18. Khan, Ahmad Raza. vide. Hisam al Haramain, pgs. 100 & 113 19. Ibrahim, Muhammad. Unanimous Fatwa of Three Hundred Ulama 20. Fatwa Saniyyah, 11. 409 256