Prophet, We have sent thee as a witness, and good tidings to bear and warning, calling unto God by his leave, and as a light-giving lamp." (Qur'an: xxxiii.46); and said, call thou to the way of the Lord with wisdom and God admonition and dispute with them in the better way. Surely the Lord knows very well those who have gone astray from his way, and He knows very well those who are guided." (Qur'an:xvi. 125); and said Say: "This is my way. I call to God with sure knowledge, I and whosoever follows after me. To God be glory! And I am not among the idolaters." (Qur'an: xii. 108): and said, "Let there be one community of you, calling to good, and bidding to honour, and forbidding dishonour, those are the prosperers." (Qur'an: iii. 104). Then He said, "And who speaks fairer than he, who calls unto God and does righteousness and says, 'Surely I am of the Muslims" (Qur'an: xii.33).

"We do not permit killing a child of the people of our Qiblah who has not sinned, or committed any of that about which the people of the Qiblah disputed among themselves; that is to say a sin of another older person who understood God's command and knew of the affair about which people disagreed, then chose to follow ignorance after knowledge, and blindness after the clear proof. But the state of the descendants of those who face the Qiblah today would be the same as if they were governed by a rightly-guided Imam, ruling them with obedience to God - yet some of their parents had broken away from him (i.e. the Imam) on a matter of uncertainty, so that they (the descendants) did not acknowledge either (Walaya) with the Imam, or yet (Bara'ah) from those of their parents who disagreed with the Imam. We do not hold it lawful to marry a woman married to another man in accordance with the Book of God and the Sunnah of His Apostle, unless her husband has divorced her or died, and she has waited after that for the fixed period ('iddah) for a divorced woman, or the period fixed for the widow whose husband has died.

"We declare ourselves disassociated from anyone who openly commits an act of disobedience to God, or an act for which He has threatened chastisement, and from any perpetrator of which act He has commanded excommunication and disassociation...111

"We do not take anyone for a 'waliy' except him who has openly acknowledge before us what is due to God and acted in obedience to God, in 'Walaya' with His 'awliya', and opposition to His enemies."

"We do not claim (hijrah) emigration from the land of our people like the emigration of the Prophet and his Companions from the land of their people. But those of us who come out - come out for jihad in the cause of God and obedience to Him. If he returns to the land of his people we still regard him as (waliy) if he acknowledges what is due to God with regard to himself and his