Reply to a Mockery — Page 27
Response to the booklet entitled Ilh a m i Girgit 27 The British very cunningly planted the Te h r i k-e-Najdi y at (the Ahl-e-Hadith refer to the Wahh a b i Movement as the Te h r i k-e-Najdiyat) in India and then nurtured it with his own hands. ( Tu f a n, 7th November 1962) Dear readers! You can see how history furnishes evidence. The religious academy of the Deoband i group (Id a ra-e-Nadwa-tul- ‘Ulam a’ ) was founded by the British. The academy’s magazine an-Nadwah reports that on 28 November 1908, His Honour Lt. Governor Sir John Hugh Prescott, K. C. S. I. E. , laid the foundation stone of Nadwatul-‘Ulam a’. ( An-Nadwah, December 1908, p. 1, 2, 4, vol. 5, no. 11) Further on the same page it is written that this famous reli- gious academy is indebted to an Englishman for its existence. ( An-Nadwah, December 1908, p. 1, 2, 4, vol. 5, no. 11) The reasons for establishing the academy, its motto and its charter are explained further: A necessary requirement of the ‘Ulam a’ here is that they should recognize the blessings and favours of the British Government and instruct the general population to be loyal to the government. ( An-Nadwah, July 1908, p. 1, vol. 5, no. 6) This is what should be known as a British agent. Planted by the British, it was carefully nurtured and when it grew strong it bore fruit in all seasons, and it always begged for more favours from its masters. As for Majlis-e-Ahr a r, an offshoot of the Deobandi sect, their