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English Book: Deoband to Bareilly - The TruthAnyone denying even one of the absolutes from among the essentials of the Deen (religion) after having recited theKalimah would be governed by a special logic instead of the ordinary logic, for to be a Mu’mins it is absolutelynecessary to fully believe in all the essentials of the Faith, and to deny even one of the essentials is sufficient to makehim an infidel, like when the Qadiani-Mirza'i-Ahmadi-Lahori people denied the finality of Prophethood and they wentout of the pale of the Faith.Obviously; to believe in the finality of Prophethood, that is, to believe that the holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SallalLaahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) is the last Prophet of Al-Laah, is a belief not an act, and since Ieemaan (Faith) means havingcorrect beliefs, no man can truthfully lay claim to be a man of Faith even though he might be reciting KalimahTaiyyibah, saying Salaat (prayer) and keeping Saum (fast). When the holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam)departed from this world, some of the tribes refused to pay Zakaat (alms). Although they did not refuse to sayNamaaz or to keep fast yet the caliph of the holy Prophet, Hazrat Saiyyidina Abu Bakr Sid-deeq (Radiyal Laahu 'Anhu)waged a holy war against them for the sake of Al-Laah. A person denying the essentials of the Faith after havingaccepted Islaam, and not repenting it, is, in Islamic terminology, an apostate and the punishment to be inflicted onhim is death. The principle is that he who defies the law is called a traitor and a rebel, and in every law in force in theworld the punishment of a traitor and a rebel is death.These days, many people holding wrong beliefs, strut about as self-appointed monopolists of Faith and Islaamalthough they might appear to be reciting the Holy Qur'aan and saying Namaaz and keeping the fast. People withknowledge of the Sunnat know it full well that the holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) had called out thenames of many of those who recited the Kalimah and said their Namaaz, and ordered them to be expelled from hismasjid (mosque).The Qur'aan and the Ahaadeeth have called such people hypocrisies (Munuafiq). Al-Laah Subhaanahu has specificallysaid about them:"Wa Minan-Naasi Maien-Yaqoolu Aaman-naa Bil Laahi Wa Bil Yaumil Aakhiri Wa Maa Hum Bi Mu'mineen."(People who might say that we believe in the Almighty Al-Laah and the Doomsday are the people who are not at allMu’mins).And He has also explained why this is so: "Fee Quloobihim Maradun" ("There is a disease in their hearts").Surely, the disease referred to did not relate to palpitation or a wrong condition of the heartbeat. The disease wasthat their real ideology, that is beliefs, was not right. Although those people had been reciting the Kalimah and sayingNamaaz, but the Divine Verdict is that they are not Mu'min (believers).That the disease is in their hearts means that an evil resides in their hearts. Al-Laah Himself says: "I have inscribedIeemaan on the hearts of men." If a Mu’mins Ieemaan is inscribed on the heart, then the infidel's infidelity andhypocrisy is also inscribed on the heart. This means that belief is the name of a firm belief embedded in the heart andAl-Laah's Aayat (Verse) clearly indicates that he whose belief is not correct has a diseased heart and he cannot be aMu'min, no matter how regular he might be in saying Namaaz and keeping the fast. .Men and women who can read and hear, specially the youths, get very frustrated at this stage, because there aremany factions amongst Musalmaans and each faction tries to prove itself to be in the right on the basis of the Qur'aanand the Sunnat and its opponents to be in the wrong; the 'Ulama (scholars) of each faction sport beard; appear to becommitted Namaaz and fasting; study the Qur'aan and the Ahaadeeth; seem to be brazenly giving arguments infavour of their own standpoint to the best of their knowledge. We who hear and read them are at a loss as to who toconsider to be in the right and who to be in the wrong. Consequently, as a result of this confusion, they have ceasedlistening to Maulvees and some of them have ceased to frequent- Masaajld (mosques) and some have altogetherdiscarded them.In reply, let me tell them in all honesty and with fear of Al-Laah in my heart that there is no doubt those person arereally much perturbed because of the contradictory statements of the generality of the Maulvees. Since people ingeneral are not fully conversant with religious knowledge so they cannot distinguish between truth and falsehood,NooreMadinah Network - http://www.NooreMadinah.net