Signed Statement of Faidullah Khan
[In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. We praise Him and invoke His blessings upon His Noble Messenger. All praise be to Allah with whose name nothing can harm, either in the earth or in the heaven. He is All-Hearing and All-Knowing.]
After praising God and invoking blessings upon the Holy Prophet of the Lord of all the worlds, I, Qadi Faidullah Khan, son of the late Qadi Zafar-ud-Din Ahmad, hereby declare that I am a Hanafi Muslim fully abiding by the tradition of the Holy Prophet(sa). I believe that after the demise of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, who is Khatamun-Nabiyyin [the Seal of the Prophets], the descent of wahi [divine revelation] is against the teachings of the Holy Quran and the Sunnah.
I reject Mirza Sahib’s claim that he is the like of, and the Promised Messiah. And Munshi Mahtab Ali son of Munshi Karim Bakhsh, a resident of Jalandhar city and a follower of the above-mentioned Mirza Sahib, claims that whoever denies this claim of his shall be overtaken by the chastisement of God.
Therefore, I pray that whoever is the liar of us two may be overtaken by a divine chastisement such as death, a disease like the plague, or incarceration resulting from some legal case. In accordance with the example of the Holy Prophet (sa), I fix one year as the time frame for this mubahalah. I prescribe the further condition that if divine chastisement overtakes any relative other than me or Munshi Mahtab, it would not be deemed to fall under this agreement.
[Our last prayer is that all praise be to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. May Allah the Almighty, send His blessings upon the Best of His creatures, Muhammad, and upon his progeny and upon all of his Companions. We beg you for Your Mercy, O the Most Merciful One.]
Qadi Faidullah Khan
Resident of Jandiala Baghwala,
District Gujranwala
Dated 12 June 1906