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moral state of their souls, of their creed. Their bodies, their
limbs may not be unclean.
Every kind of thanks belongs to Allahu ta’âlâ by right. I send
my salâms to the pure people whom He has chosen. My
merciful Sir! We can not understand why you sent us Tafsîr-i-
Husainî. This interpretation, in explaining the twenty-ninth âyat
of Sûrat-ut-Tawba, says, “Since disbelievers’ souls and beliefs
are filthy, they are certainly filthy.” Also, savants of the Hanafî
Madhhab explained it in this manner. That is, they said that the
reason why Allahu ta’âlâ declared “Disbelievers are filthy” is
because their hearts, their creeds are filthy. It is written in
Tafsîr-i Husainî that some savants said, “Since disbelievers do
not perform a ghusl (ritual washing) or abstain from najâsat [1] ,
they are foul.” Yet it is not suitable to interpret it in this manner,
for the majority of the Muslims in India today do not avoid
najâsat. Some ignorant Muslims, too, like disbelievers, slight
cleanliness. If not avoiding najâsat caused one to be foul, the
life would become very difficult for Muslims. But, it was
declared: “There is no hardship in Islâm.” Though it is written in
Tafsîr-i Husainî “Abdullah Ibni Abbâs ‘radiy-Allâhu anhumâ’
said that disbelievers’ bodies are foul like dogs” great men of
religion have received much information such as this which
does not conform with what the majority of the other savants
think, and which is not like what everybody understands. Such
expressions should be somehow adapted to what is generally
accepted. How can the skin and the bodies of disbelievers be
foul in light of the fact that our Prophet ate a meal in a Jew’s
home? He cleaned himself with a disbeliever’s water container.
Also, Hadrat ’Umar (Radiyallahu anh) cleaned himself with a
Christian woman’s container. If one claims that these might
have been done before the âyat was revealed, one will have
based this statement on sheer supposition; it should be proven
that the âyat came afterwards. If it can be proven, it still does
not prove that they are foul, dirty or that the things which they
touch will be foul and harâm. At most, it shows that their creed
is foul. A prophet never does something that was harâm or that
would be harâm in his own Sharî’at or in other Sharî’ats. That
[1] Every kind of dirt. In this context, it means the dirt that prevents one from
performing namâz. It will be explained in the third fascicle of Endless
Bliss.
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