Truth About Ahmadiyyat — Page 97
97 (5) Maulvi Murtaza Ahmad Khan Sahib has recorded that the Khalifatul Muslimeen Sultan Abdul Hameed II of Turkey communicated a declaration to the British that the Muslims of India should not fight the British as they had proved to be the allies of and in symp athy with the Islamic Khilafat. ( History of the Nations of the World, p. 639). (6) Maulvi Syed Nazir Hussain Sahib Delhvi declared: As the conditions of Jihad do not exist in this country it would be ruin and sinful to carry on Jihad here. (Fatawa Naziriyya, Vol. IV, p. 472) He also declared that the rebellion of 1857 was not Jihad under the Islamic law but was a faithless proceeding involving a breach of covenant and disorder and rancor and that participation in it or any assistance rendered towards it was sinful. ( Ishaatus Sunnah, Vol. VI, No. 10 ) (7) Maulana Maudoodi Sahib declared: When the Muslims were defeated and the British Government was established and the Muslims were content to live in this country with freedom to practise their personal law, this country ceased to be a country at war. (Book on Interest, p. 1) All this shows that all serious minded Muslims have been grateful to the British Government who rescued them from the oppression and religious persecution of the Sikhs and gave them complete religious freedom. Muslim divines were united in declaring that i t was not permissible to enter upon Jihad against