Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 263
26 APRIL 1907 263 Two Friday Prayers in the Same Mosque The question was presented: 'Some mosques are of the kind that have concluded either legally or through mutual understanding that Ahmadis and non-Ahmadis have the option to offer their Prayers sep- arately there, each with their own congregations and their own Imams. At such a place, what should be done for Jumu'ah [the Friday Prayer] as two Jumu'ah services are not allowed in the same mosque? The Promised Messiahas said: The people who declare you as kāfirs [disbelievers] and do not offer Prayers behind you, do not consider your Adhān and your Jumu'ah Prayer to be valid anyhow. For this reason they will go ahead and offer their own Prayers. And since they call a believer a disbeliever, they have themselves become kāfir according to the Hadith. For this reason, you also hold the view that their Adhān and Prayers have no substance. You call your own Adhān and offer your own Jumu'ah with your Imam. Hajj-e-Badal [Hajj Performed on Behalf of Someone] The heirs of a deceased Ahmadi from Khushab wrote a letter to the Promised Messiahas that the deceased had a firm intention to go for Hajj, but death did not allow him to do so. Is it permissible now that someone may be sponsored and sent on his behalf? The Promised Messiahas said: It is permissible. The deceased will receive the reward of the Hajj. ¹ 1 1. Badr, vol. 6, no. 18, p. 2, dated 2 May 1907