Truth Prevails — Page 153
( 153 ) the rest of the people have even a grain of honesty and iman , and if they are not mere hypocrites, they should come forward and denounce these maulvis , and their fatwa against me, name by name, in a big poster, and declare that they had all become kafirs , because they had said in regard to a momin that he was a kafir. When they have publicly, and quite openly disassociated themselves from this unjust fatwa , I shall readily take them as Muslims – provided in their action there is no trace of hypocrisy, and provided they do not seek to term as false open and obvious signs and miracles. ” ( Haqiqatul Wahyi , page 165) Now please think very seriously here. Although the Promised Messiah in this passage does not take the non-Ahmadis to be Muslims, you interpret the general sense of the passage to mean that there is here no denial involved of the fact that outwardly they still remain formal Muslims, so to say, then what is the difficulty in holding that precisely this, and no more is the sense and meaning of the passages under reference from Anwar-i-Khilafat and A’ina-i- Sadaqat ? In this case, too, there is no intention to deny that outwardly, in any case, such Muslims remained formal Muslims. Now remains the specific passage in A’ina-i-Sadaqat. So it is to be remembered that words of this kind, in Islam, have been used in two meanings. One meaning is to say that the person in question is a non-Muslim. The second is that the person in question is alien to the real spirit of Islam, and he has fallen a victim to a serious error in belief. This is what the Holy Prophet Muhammad, himself, has to say on the point: “Where a man sallies forth to give support to an unjust person, knowing that he is unjust, the supporter, thereby, throws himself outside the bounds of Islam. ” When Mr. Faruqi and his friends interpret this Hadith to mean that such a person becomes an alien to the real inner spirit of Islam, though in outward form he remains a Muslim; what is to prevent them from taking the passage in question, in the same way? Here is another instance from the writings of the Promised Messiah ( Izala-i-Auham , small edition, page 298) “Now let it be quite clear that these days the objection of some unitariuns, that in species of birds, some are the creation of the Lord God, and some of Hazrat Isa, is entirely misleading and idolatorous; and the person who holds this view, without any doubt, he is outside the pale of Islam. ” Evidently, the Muslims with respect to whom the expression in question occurs in the case under discussion – that “they are outside the pale of Islam”, undoubtedly Mr. Faruqi must be interpreting this passage to mean that people of this kind are alien to the spirit of Islam – not that they have become non- Muslims. Well, this is exactly the stand Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II took before the Inquiry Commission. Hazrat Khalifatul Masih was asked: “Do you still