With-Love-to-Muhammad

256 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn
present it! As opposed to that, the Ahmadī Muslims believe that
a person can become righteous in this world by obeying Allāh
and His Messenger sa . Once he has become righteous, he can
then progress to the higher spiritual stages mentioned in the
verse.
As a result, we have no option but to conclude that just as
people have been confounding truth with falsehood since time
immemorial, the case of Farhan Khan’s book is no different.
Allāh, the Exalted, forbids this in the Holy Qur’ān in these
words:
وَلاَ‏ تَلْبِسُ‏ وْا الْحَقَّ‏ ابِ‏ لْبَاطِلِ‏ وَتَكْتُمُوْا الْحَقَّ‏ وَاَنْتمُ‏ ْ تَعْلَمُوْ‏ نَ‏
And confound not truth with falsehood nor hide the
truth, knowingly. 250
Farhan Khan has done exactly what has been forbidden in the
above verse. This is not simply a false allegation on Farhan
Khan’s book. The fact of the matter is that his book is filled with
dishonesties and fallacies and these have been mentioned
throughout this book.
A second problem in his arguments for the topic under
discussion is that he has presented a hadīth 251 related to
Thawban ra andlaid the entire foundation of his argument on it
but he cunningly chose not to give its reference. One wonders
why? It may come as a surprise to the readers but that hadīth
does not appear in any of the six authentic compilations of
ahādīth. This appears to be the reason why he does not provide
the reference. The compilers of the six authentic books of ahādīth
did not find it authentic enough to include it in their
250
Sūrah Al-Baqarah, 2:43
251
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