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A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 5 ] admitted by the critics themselves that the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at never received any favour from the British. In contrast, who were the people who reaped vast boun- ties? It was in fact certain clerics of the Wahhabi 3 or the Deobandi sects. That is, the forefathers of our bitterest opponents today. They were the people who spoke in favour of the British with the greatest force. Along with them, there were some Shia 4 scholars who were great sup- porters of the British. They all benefited from the British. Their support was not motivated by any feeling of doing good or promoting national interest; rather, they had per- sonal interests in doing so. It is noted in Qai s arut- Taw a r i kh , volume 2, page 351, printed in Lucknow: After the insurgency was quelled, one of those who were rewarded was the prominent scholar and jurist, Sul ta nul-‘Ulam a’ Syed Mu h ammad. He was remunerated by the British government with a per- manent stipend of eight hundred rupees per month for himself and his future descendants. 3. A member of a strictly orthodox Sunni Muslim sect, the pre- dominant religious force in Saudi Arabia. Named after the founder, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-92). ( Com- pact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English, 3rd ed, Ox- ford University Press) 4. One of the…branches of Islam, regarding Ali, the fourth ca- liph, as Muhammad’s first true successor. ( Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English, 3rd ed, Oxford Univer- sity Press)