Was Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Planted By The British? — Page 30
Was Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Planted by the British? 30 Historical Events Speak Their Own Language Casting aspersions and levelling accusations against anyone furnishes no proof as such. Just as when they accuse us and we shrug it off, similarly when they dub each other as ' khud k a shta pauda ' [of the British] we regard it as simply meaningless because taken by itself it proves nothing. However, it is true that the actual events of history have a language of their own: and when history speaks, one has no option but to listen to it. It is a historically established fact that the Nadwatul ‘Ulama’ the institution of the Diyuband i sect was founded by the British and its Maulaw i s remained on the British payroll—those who were so nourished are being eulogized today as anti-British, even first-ranking freedom fighters. The foundation stone of Nadwatul ‘Ulama’ was itself laid by a British man. In this regard, their own official organ, An- Nadwah , not any non-Nadw i source, recorded the following: 'On 28 November, 1908, the foundation- stone of the Academy of Learning, Nadwatul ‘Ulama’, was laid by His Honourable Lieutenant Governor bah a dur of the United Provinces, Sir John Scott Hughes, K. C. S. I. E. ' 27 Having read the above portion of this excerpt, one 27 An-Nadwah , Dec. 1908, p. 4. [Publisher]