Reply to the Objection Raised against Hazrat Thanawi

Question

(1) Zayd says that the people of America have reached the moon by means of a rocket. (2) One or two persons of modern [secular] education, unacquainted with the rulings of the Sacred Law, say concerning Hazrat Mawlana Ashraf ‘Ali Thanawi: “The knowledge of the Sacred Law which Mawlana Hakim al-Umma possessed was only a partial knowledge of the Sacred Law — so what distinction has Mawlana Hakim al-Umma in that? There is no particularity at all.

Answer

(1) This is not impossible in itself. (2–3) If this conversation of those two really took place and is not fabricated, then ask the person who holds this belief for his proof and inform [us], because issuing a fatwa of kufr is a very great responsibility: if someone is called a kafir while he is not in fact a kafir, that kufr returns upon the one who called [him] a kafir (may…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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