Relations with the Qadianis

Question

Unfortunately, two or three persons of our small town, having become apostates, joined the misguided sect of the Qadianis, and, as in other parts of India, in our town too no attention was paid at first to uprooting this sect; mixing with the apostates, eating and drinking with them and the like continued as before. About ten years ago Mawlana Mawlawi Muhammad Ayyub Beg, a graduate of [Dar al-‘Ulum] Deoband, warned the people of the town of the deceit of this sect and instructed them to sever relations with them.

Answer

[ar]قَالَ اللهُ تَعَالَى: ﴿لَا تَرْكَنُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ فَتَمَسَّكُمُ ٱلنَّارُ﴾ الْآيَةَ، وَالرُّكُونُ إِلَى الشَّيْءِ هُوَ السُّكُونُ إِلَيْهِ بِالْأُنْسِ وَالْمَحَبَّةِ، فَاقْتَضَى ذَلِكَ النَّهْيَ عَنْ مُجَالَسَةِ الظَّالِمِينَ وَمُوَانَسَتِهِمْ وَالْإِنْصَاتِ إِلَيْهِمْ، هُوَ مِثْلُ قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى: ﴿فَلَا تَقْعُدْ بَعْدَ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ مَعَ ٱلْقَوْمِ…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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