Truth About the Split — Page 326
326 of Muslims one may properly include even such people as do not believe in the Holy Prophet sa. According to him, a belief in the Holy Prophet is a secondary matter, lack of which will not render a man kafir. In the same strain and on the same page he writes: "One who denies the truth of La Ilaha Illallah (No God but Allah) is altogether excluded from this circle. One, however, who accepts this creed though he rejects some part of the faith, nevertheless remains within the circle, but is a kafir so far as that part is concerned. " From this also, it is evident that according to Maulawi Muhammad Ali everybody who believes in the formula La Ilaha Illallah is a Muslim. Disbelief in any of the other parts of Islam, including disbelief in the prophethood of Muhammad sa cannot affect the fact of his being a Muslim. The only difference it makes is to prove him a disbeliever in a part of Islam. It does not exclude him from the circle of Islam. Maulawi Muhammad Ali therefore concludes that denial of the Promised Messiah as likewise is denial only of a part of Islam; it does not exclude anybody from the pale of Islam. Such a doctrine is fraught with the gravest possible danger. It strikes at the very root of Islam.