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you. ' Hence he is stated to have declared it 'unlawful to wage war against the British. " The Ahle Hadeeth leader Nawab. Siddiq Hasan Khan of Bhopal is also stated to have written the book, Tarjuman e Wahabiyyat to assure the British Government that the Ahle Hadeeth in India were loyal to the British. Government¹² and within this book he stated: 'No Muslim subject of India and the Indian states bears malice towards this great power. ' 113. The leader of the Wahabbia Movement in India, Maulvi. Muhammad Jaffar was also grateful to the British Government and considered it better than the regime of the then Khalifatul. Muslameen of the non Ahmadiyya Muslims, the Sultan of. Turkey, He stated: 'Before all, I thank the British government under which we can publicly, and with the beat of drums, teach the religious doctrines of our pure faith without interference whatsoever, and we can pay back our opponents whether they be. Christians or others in their own coin. Such liberty we could not have seen under the Sultan of Turkey. ' 114. The Jamait e Ahle Sunnat considered the British rule of India lawful also and according to its leadership, India, under the. British, was considered to be a country of Islam¹ while the leadership of the Nidawatul Ulama of Deoband in India claimed that its: 'main objective was to produce enlightened ulama whose bounded duty it is to be fully aware of the beneficence of the. British rule and also to inculcate the spirit of loyalty towards 11. Kashmiri, Shurush. Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, p. 135 12. Metcalf, Dr. Barbara Daly, Islamic Revival in British India, p. 279 13. Khan, Nawab Siddiq Hasan. Tarjuman e Wahabiyyat, p. 4 14. Jaffar, Maulvi Muhammad. Barakat ul Islam. p. 2 15. Hunter, W. W. Indian Musalmans, p. 122 250