The Sunni Voice

Those Who Affirm that Allāh Can Lie

Ismā.īl Dihlawī was the first of the Wahhābīs of India to forward the heresy of imkān kadhib or .the possibility of lying. (on the part of Allāh Most High!)1 and was imitated in this belief by the Deobandīs Shaykhs Ah.mad Rashīd Gangohi (d. 1323/1905) in his Fatawa-e-Rashidia and his apologist Khalīl al-Saharanfūrī (d. 1927) in his al-Barāhīn al-Qāt.i.a.

Those Who Disparage the Prophet

Ismā.īl Dihlawī is also notorious for affirming in his purported .Straight Path. (al-S.irāt al-Mustaqīm) . apparently co-authored with his close associate Sayyid Ah.mad Barelwī  that .Becoming absorbed (s.arf-e-himmat) in the Prophet Muhammad “, were it to occur during Salāt, is much worse than to become absorbed in the thought of an ox or a donkey..7 It goes without saying that such a statement constitutes clear disparagement of the Prophet “, which is passible of death in all four Sunnī Schools. [..read on..]

 

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