Fazl-e-Umar — Page 176
Fazle Umar 176 of the barbaric atrocity, and the authorities in Afghanistan who were responsible for it were harshly criticized. Naimatullah Khan’s execution was carried out under the orders of Amanullah Khan, who advocated liberalism in every sphere of life and was anxious to modernise Afghanistan. God’s retribution was not long delayed. King Amanullah’s modernising methods were deeply resented by the mullahs who roused the populace against him. Bacha Saqua (son of water carrier) headed a rising against him and advanced upon Kabul. He met with no opposition in Kabul, and Amanullah finding himself deserted by everyone departed in the utmost haste from Kabul, accompanied by his wife, and requested the British authorities of India to provide him with facilities for travel to Italy. Arrived in Rome he rented an apartment and settled down to an inglorious existence of degrading humiliation. His wife and daughter were disgusted with him and left him to die in lonely misery. This was the end of the line of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, at whose insistence Maulvi Abdur Rahman, a disciple of Sahibzada Abdul Latif, had been strangled to death while in custody. L A y I n G OF T H E F OU n d AT IO n S TO n E OF T H E L O n d O n M O S QU E Before leaving England and starting on his return journey to India, Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih laid the foundation stone of the London Mosque on 19 October 1924. The construction of the Mosque was completed in the summer of 1926, and Shaikh Sir Abdul Qadir performed the opening ceremony on 3 October 1926 in the presence of a distinguished gathering of Muslims from all countries and British guests prominent in public life. Four English gentlemen announced their acceptance of Islam. This was the first mosque established within the area of Greater London.