The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 336
BATALĀWI'S STATEMENTS & THEIR RESPONSES 335 curse him, call him dajjāl, and hold it lawful to kill him and to rob him of his property? As for my statements which you characterize as being heretical, their reply is set out in this book for every impartial reader to read himself. Your scholarship, honesty, and understanding of the Quran and Hadith has been amply exposed thereby, so there is no need to separately write anything further. His Statement: Apart from your false beliefs that are opposed to the religion of Islam and the former faiths, telling lies and deception has become such an integral part of your character as if it was ingrained in your very nature. My Statement: Shaikh Şahib! Anyone who is God-fearing and of pure birth would not, in the first place, dare accuse his brother of any transgression and disbelief without full investigation. But if he would make any such accusation, he would furnish such perfect proofs about it that would make the day dawn upon those looking on. So, if you possess both of these above-mentioned qualities, I adjure you in the name of the Powerful God who is the Lord of Glory—the invocation of whose oath elicited a considered reply even from the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him-to prove that I have these two types of evils in me that you think I possess; that firstly, I am hostile to the religion of Islam and am a kāfir, and secondly that I am given to lying. The Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, has said that: Most truthful indeed are the dreams of the one who is most truthful in all that he says. In this hadith the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, has appointed this as a sign of the truthful; that truth should be dominant in their dreams. ¹ You have just made the claim that you believe in the Holy Prophet, 1. Şahih Muslim, Kitabur-Ruʼyā, Bāb fi Kaunur-Ru'yā minallāh waʼannahā Juzw minun-Nubuwwah, Hadith 5905 [Publisher]