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bound to assist their Rulers, and in conjunction with them, fight such rebels. 168. Such pronouncements which declared India Darul Islam were also forthcoming from the Muftis of Mecca and Medina and other Arab divines including Sheikh Jamaluddin ibn 'Abd Allah,. Sheikh Umar Hanif, Sheikh Ahmad ibn Zihni Shafi and Sheikh. Hussain ibn Ibrahim. " They issued such edicts because. as stated by the leader of the Jamaat e Islami, Maulvi Abul Ala. Maududi: 69 'when the British supremacy was established and Muslims had accepted to live in India under their own personal law, this territory was no more Darul Harb. 170. What opinion would Abdul Hafeez now express in relation to all the aforementioned Muslim divines and leaders who agreed with Hadhrat Ahmad as that Jihad against the British rule was not permissible? Would he state that they too had abrogated this essential injunction of the Islamic faith?. Incidentally, while Hadhrat Ahmad as agreed with the ulama of the time that Jihad with the sword was not permissible against the legitimate government of India, he still considered India to be Dar ul Harb, i. e. , a place of war where Muslims were under a religious obligation to conduct a different kind of Jihad. Hence he declared: 'This country is Dar ul Harb as against Christian missionaries. . We should therefore not sit idle. But remember that our war is of the same kind as theirs. We should go forth with the kind of weapons with which they have come forth. That weapon is the pen. 171 68. Ibid. , p. 219 69. Kashmiri, Shurush. Ata, Ullah Shah Bukhari, p. 131 70. Maududi, Sayid Abul Ala. Book on Interests, pt 1, pp. 77/78 71. Ahmad, [Hadhrat] Mirza Ghulam. Al Hakam, vol. v, June 17, 1901, p. 2 238