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204 me. This, he says, has led me to condemn Ahmadis as Fasiqs (rebels). Such a charge comes with very bad grace from him who, in the very first pages of his book has been pleased to call me and my Companions by the name of Dal (perverts). I ask which is the harsher term, Dal or Fasiq. Dal implies such a bad sense that Muslims have been taught to pray five times a day, that is, in all their daily prayers, that they may be saved from being turned into Dal. But, nevertheless, Maulawi Muhammad Ali has not scrupled to bestow that title on us. (pp. 3—8 of The Split ). If, however, it is contended that we have been given that name under the authority of the Quran and the Hadith then our rejoinder is that the name of Fasiq has been given to Maulawi Muhammad Ali and his party in conformity with the verse relating to the institution of Khilafat in Chapter Nur of the Holy Quran, where after promising the advent of Khulafa’ from among Muslims, the Holy Quran proceeds to say that those who will not obey such Khulafa’ will be Fasiqs , Thus, whereas our opponents possess no justification for giving us the name of Dal , we have the sanction of the Quran in our use of the term Fasiq. Besides the explicit dictum of the Quran, we possess the precedent of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra who openly called them Fasiqs who refused to obey his