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The Allegation That He Was Misleading
His Followers

Those far from the religious morality have always accused be-
lievers of misleading those they call to the right path. Even though
they themselves have gone astray, they accuse those who abide by

Allah’s book, demonstrating that it is with the religion itself that
they are at war. Allah had revealed:
They said, “These two magicians desire by their magic to
expel you from your land and abolish your most excellent
way of life.” (Surah Ta-Ha, 63)

Accusation Of Heresy

One of the allegations against Bediuzzaman was that he was
promoting a religion other than Islam and that he had invented his
own religion. The purpose behind these allegations was to incite
the public and religious but ignorant people against him. The
verses of the Qur’an reveal that the same allegations were made
against believers in the past:

The ruling circle of his [Nuh’s] people said, “We see you in
flagrant error.” (Surat al-A‘raf, 60)
For this purpose, they misinterpreted some of Bediuzzaman’s
practices and exploited them in their propaganda war against him.
Bediuzzaman writes, in one of his letters, that incited by a secret
committee, some naïve Imams accused him of not attending the
Friday prayers and not growing a beard. 33 In response to such
provocations, Bediuzzaman always made the appropriate state-
ments and his innocence was thus established.

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