Truth Prevails — Page 152
( 152 ) This is the belief the Khalifatul Masih II owned up before the Inquiry Commission, where he was asked: “Does not the denial of a true Prophet amount to kufr ?” He replied: “Yes, it does amount to kufr. But kufr is of two kinds: one which throws a man out of the Millat ; the second which does not entail exclusion from the Millat. Denial of the Muslim Kalima is kufr of the first kind; while kufr of the second kind results from other minor denials, or wrong beliefs. ” These question and answers Mr. Faruqi has set forth on page 54 of Truth Triumphs. It is apparent that Hazrat Khalifatul Masih gave a reply which fully, also strictly, conforms to what the Promised Messiah said on the point, on page 179 of Haqiqatul Wahyi , where kufr is shown to be of two kinds; and denial of the Promised Messiah has been reckoned as kufr of the second kind. In the Court of Inquiry, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih was asked: “Do you hold Mirza Sahib to be among the Mamurin , faith in whom is essential for qualifying a man to be called a Muslim?” He replied he had answered the question already, that a man who does not accept Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, he cannot be held to have gone out of the pale of Islam. Here Mr. Faruqi has the following objection to raise: “The readers may please compare the reply given by Mirza Mahmud Ahmad with his previous statements in his books as quoted against item (i) and (ii) above. This then is the third change that Mirza Mahmud Ahmad has made in his beliefs. ” (Truth Triumphs, page 54) We have already discussed the matter of the first and second change alleged. The third cited is no more than an attempt to create a misunderstanding. The fact is that in Anwar-e-Khilafat and A’ina-i-Sadaqat , Hazrat Khalifatul Masih did not at all say that the non-Ahmadis, by their rejection of the Promised Messiah, had thrown themselves outside the apparent outward fold of Islam. In Anwar-i-Khilafat , there is an expression that we should not take the non-Ahmadis to be Muslims. But it does not mean that we have rejected the idea of taking them as Muslims even as far as the outward form is concerned. Otherwise, expressions of this kind, in their limited sense and meaning, have often been used by the Promised Messiah himself. For instance take the following quotations: “It is a firm proposition in the Hadith that where a man says in regard to a momin that he is a kafir , the man who says this, himself he becomes a kafir. So in my case, when nearly 200 maulvis have declared that I am a kafir ; and they applied a fatwa of kufr on me; and when, on the basis of their own fatwa it stands established that he who says in regard to a real momin that he has become a kafir , he himself thereby, becomes a kafir , the remedy in such cases is easy. If