The Beliefs of a Misguided Sect

Question

A certain group holds the belief concerning the Holy Qur’an that the Holy Qur’an has forty parts (juz’); the knowledge of thirty parts is manifest to all, while the knowledge of ten parts belongs only to our group and to no one else. Is a sect that holds this kind of belief Muslim? (2) The same sect says that every night they behold Allah the Exalted. What is the ruling of the Sacred Law concerning such a sect? (3) The same sect does not regard the five daily prayers as obligatory (fard)

Answer

(1) The Holy Qur’an which has been continuously current in the Umma since the time of the Prophet ﷺ, which is recited and is written in the mushafs — all of it is mutawatir (transmitted by uninterrupted mass transmission) and qat‘i (definitive).

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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