The claim of the head of the Baha'is that he is the owner of all endowment properties
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Q4: And he claims that he is the absolute owner of all endowment properties, and that he is not accountable for all the charities, and that he is Allah on earth, as the late head of the scholars, our master Tahir Saif al-Din, claimed in a case in the Supreme Court in the city of Bombay , and he has complete power over all his followers.
A4: What was mentioned in the question regarding the claim of the head of the Baha'is that he is the absolute owner of all endowment properties, and that he is not accountable for all the charities, and that he is Allah on the entire earth, are false claims, whether they came from him or from anyone else. As for the first, it is because the specific properties of endowments are not owned, but rather the right to benefit from their produce is owned, and that is by spending it on the purposes for which it was endowed,
and not on anything else. So the head of the Baha'is does not own the specific properties—meaning the endowments—nor does he own any of their produce, except the produce of what was endowed for him, if he is qualified for that. And as for the second: which is the claim that he is not accountable, it is because every person is accountable for all his actions, including the disposition of charities and others, by the explicit text of the Book and the Sunnah and the consensus of the Ummah. And as for the third: which is the claim that he is Allah in the earth—it is clear disbelief, and whoever claims that is a taghut who calls for deifying himself and worshipping him, and the falsity of that is known from the religion of Islam by necessity.
A4: What was mentioned in the question regarding the claim of the head of the Baha'is that he is the absolute owner of all endowment properties, and that he is not accountable for all the charities, and that he is Allah on the entire earth, are false claims, whether they came from him or from anyone else. As for the first, it is because the specific properties of endowments are not owned, but rather the right to benefit from their produce is owned, and that is by spending it on the purposes for which it was endowed,
and not on anything else. So the head of the Baha'is does not own the specific properties—meaning the endowments—nor does he own any of their produce, except the produce of what was endowed for him, if he is qualified for that. And as for the second: which is the claim that he is not accountable, it is because every person is accountable for all his actions, including the disposition of charities and others, by the explicit text of the Book and the Sunnah and the consensus of the Ummah. And as for the third: which is the claim that he is Allah in the earth—it is clear disbelief, and whoever claims that is a taghut who calls for deifying himself and worshipping him, and the falsity of that is known from the religion of Islam by necessity.
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