Was Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Planted By The British? — Page 17
Was Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Planted by the British? 17 Sikhs and granted them freedom of religion—the reason explicitly given by the Promised Messiah as for thanking and praising the British. Rather these people perceived the British regime at that time to be superior to all the Islamic regimes regardless of any of the above-mentioned reasons. No matter where the Ahl-e- H ad i th went and settled—whether it was Turkey or Arabia or any other country—they did not desire to become the subjects of any other regime except that of the British. As for the Shiites, their elders continued to publish a similar viewpoint in their writings. An excerpt from ‘All a ma ‘Al i al- Ha ’ir i , published in Mau‘i z ah-e-Ta h r i f-e-Qur’ a n , (April, 1923, pp. 57-58), discusses the subject in the same vein. Yearning for 'A Munificent Glance from the British' Maulana Z afar ‘Al i Kh a n, who was at one time a notable A h r a ri but later on declared A h r a ries to be traitors to the country as well as to Islam, summed up his long experience as follows: 'The Muslims. . . . . . cannot think ill of such a government [i. e. , the British government] even for a moment!. . . . . . if a wretched Muslim has the audacity to be rebellious against the Government, then we say it out loud that such a Muslim is not a Muslim. ' 18 18 Newspaper, Zam in d a r , Lahore, 11 Nov. 1911. [Publisher]