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under the pretext of Jihad. He warned: 'Be concerned about those people who are ignorant of their religious teachings, in that they wish to efface the British. Government, and to end the current peace and tranquillity by disorder under the name of Jihad. This is sheer stupidity and foolishness. 160. He referred to the period of the Indian mutiny of 1857 which fanned the flames of battle and stated that: 'If anyone lets loose such mischief today, he would also be the same kind of trouble maker and from the beginning to the end, he would stain the name of Islam. '61. The Nawab of Bhopal also declared that whosoever acted against the British Raj in India, he: 'is not only a mischief maker in the eyes of the rulers but he shall be the farthest from what Islam requires and from the way of the believers, and he shall be regarded as a violator of the covenant, unfaithful to his religion, and a perpetrator of the greatest sin. What his condition will be on the Day of. Judgement will become evident there. 162. Such pronouncements by Muslim divines, scholars and leaders were neither few nor far in between. The author of Two in One may reject the opinions of Maulvi Muhammad Hussain Batalvi on the grounds that he had always been a controversial figure63 but that does not deny the fact that in 1875, he declared that: 'all religious wars against the British Government of India and against the authority which has granted religious freedom, is forbidden by and contrary to the law of Islam and those people who take up weapons against the British Government 60. Khan, Nawab Siddiq Hasan. Tarjuman e Wahabiyya, p. 7 61. Ibid. , p. 15 62. Ibid. , p. 17 63. Shah, Syed Abdul Hafeez. Two in One, P. 68 236