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Barelvi's th disciple, Hadhrat Sayyid Muhammad Ismail. Shaheed th, who was, incidentally, martyred at Balikot while conducting Jihad against the Sikhs. When he was asked as to why did he not give a pronouncement of Jihad against the. British, he replied: 'In no way is it obligatory to fight Jihad against them. Firstly, we are their subjects. Secondly, they do not interfere in the performance of our religious duties. We have every kind of freedom under their rule. In fact, if someone attacks them,. Muslims must fight the attacker and not let their government be harmed a whit. '57. Sayyid Nazir Husain, the then Muhaddith of Delhi and the most prominent leader of the Jama'it e Ahle Hadeeth in India was a contemporary of Hadhrat Ahmadas. Although opposed to the entire realm of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's philosophy, he expressed an opinion that: 'The authority of the British in India is lawful and in accordance with the Quranic injunction: "O ye who believe, obey Allah and His Messenger and those in authority amongst you," it is unlawful to wage war against the British Raj. 158. The Muhaddith of Delhi declared British India Darus Salam, i. e. , the land of peace, and stated: 'Since the criterion of Jihad is absent from this land, to conduct Jihad here would be a means of destruction and sin. '59. Another prominent leader of India, Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan of Bhopal of the Wahabbi section of the Ahle Hadeeth censured those people who wished to create disorder in British India 57. Shaheed, [Hadhrat] Sayyid Muhammad Ismail. vide. Hayyat Tayabba 58. Husain, Maulvi Nazir. vide. Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, p. 135 59. Ibid. , Fatwa Naziriyya, vol. iv, p. 472 235