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the Government of the country. ' 116. It is also stated in relation to the Nidawatul Ulama and Maulvi. Rashid Ahmad Gangohi of Deoband: 'The Deobandis made sure that they conformed in every way to a posture of loyalty. Rashid Ahmad, for this reason, refused to accept a grant of 5000 rupees a year from the Shah of. Afghanistan. ' +17. They are on record for having 'celebrated all ceremonial occasions like coronations with appropriate pomp, and observed times of crisis, like Queen Victoria's last illness, with fitting prayers and messages (18 while Alama Muhammad Iqbal composed an eulogy in honour of Queen Victoria and held her death in similar reverence to the martyrdom of Hadhrat. Hussain. He also bestowed upon her the epitaph of shadow of. God Almighty and lamented that India had been deprived of the Divine shadow with her death. 19 The Ahrar leader, Maulvi. Zafar Ali Khan stated that 'Muslims cannot for a minute contemplate being cynical of the British and if any bad natured. Muslim did dare show cynicism towards it, then he would affirm that that Muslim was not a Muslim. 120 He also stated: 'For every drop of our Emperor's sweat, we are prepared to shed our blood and these sentiments are shared by the entire. Muslim populace. ' +21. One does not know of any protest recorded by the hereditary pirs of Gujjo to the above declaration by Maulvi Zafar Ali. Was it because they also shared these sentiments of the entire. Muslim populace as the editor of Zamindar had stated or was it because they were not Muslims? 16. Al Nadwa, Deoband, vol, 5, 1908 17. Metcalf, Dr. Barbara Daly. Islamic Revival in British India, p. 155 19. Iqbal, Muhammad. Bakayyat e Iqbal 18. Ibid. 20. Khan, Zafar Ali. Zamindar, Lahore, 23 November 1911 21. Ibid. , 11 November 1911 251