Truth Prevails — Page 67
( 67 ) “It is strange that to your mind those who call me a kafir , and those who deny me, are two different kind of people, even though, in eyes of the Lord they fall into one and the same category. ” ( Haqiqatul Wahyi , page 163) Perhaps Mr. Faruqi will be kind enough to explain here whether he takes these two kinds of people to be one and the same, or whether he takes them as belonging to two different kinds. His Leader, Maulvi Mohammad Ali, anyway, has drawn a distinction between those who call him a kafir , and those who decline to accept his claim. Writes Maulvi Mohammad Ali, in his Radd-i- Takfir-i-Ahl-i-Qabila : “A man who calls the Promised Messiah a kafir , or kazib or dajjal , under the verdict of Hadith, he becomes a kafir apart from these people, there are those who have not accepted his claim, or they have not yet yielded the pledge of faith and loyalty, they do not become kafirs , just because they have denied the claim. ” ( Radd-i- Takfir-i-Ahl-i-Qabila , page 39) Here we have Maulvi Mohammad Ali deciding definitely that where a man believes in regard to the Promised Messiah that he is a kafir , kazib , or a dajjal , he himself becomes a kafir , but he does not hold that a man becomes a kafir who declines to accept the claim of the Promised Messiah. This stand of the Lahore Section is not correct since it is in regard to exactly a case of this kind that the Promised Messiah has laid down quite clearly: “It is very strange you draw a distinction between one who takes me for a kafir. and one who declines to yield faith in me”. ( Haqiqatul Wahyi , page 163) On page 179 of Haqiqatul Wahyi , the Promised Messiah has placed the word “ kafir ” against “ momin ”, and stated that kufr is of two kinds: 1. “One kind of kufr is that a man does not at all believe in Islam, and he does not accept the Holy Prophet Mohammad as an Apostle of God. ” 2. “The second kind of kufr is, for instance, that he does not believe in the Promised Messiah… Even after the whole case has been fully and duly put before him, he declines to believe in one, whose truth has been supported by the Holy Prophet, with great emphasis and insistence, and whose truth, moreover, is found to have been confirmed by the Scriptures of the earlier Prophets: Therefore, since he rejects the decision of the Apostle of God, and of Allah Himself, he becomes a kafir. When you look deeply at this question, the two kinds of kufr are found to be one and the same thing. There is really no room for doubt that in the eyes of the Lord, where the case has been fully and duly put before, a kafir of the first or the second kind, on the Day of the Qiyama , he will be held culpable. And. where, in