64 - In order to spread Christianity, the British sent Protestant priests to India in 1270 [A.D. 1853]. The great scholar Rahmatullah Efendi contended against them for days, eventually defeating them so decisively that they could no longer answer him. One night they made a swift exit and went to London. Rahmatullah Efendi gives a detailed account of this victory in his book Izhâr-ul-Haqq. In revenge for this rout, the British government declared war on India, martyring thousands of Muslims, in 1274 (A.H.). This catastrophic event is written in detail in our books Confessions of a British Spy and Could Not Answer. When their weapons also proved useless in their efforts to annihilate Islam, they pursued a policy to break it from within. In 1296 [A.D. 1880], they helped a person named Ahmad Qâdiyânî to establish a new religion in India. This religion, which was called Qâdianism or Ahmadiyya, was propagated as an Islamic religion. The Islamic scholars in India wrote books proving that votaries of that religion were disbelievers. Formerly the British had supported the Wahhâbî religion for the same purpose. Abd-us-salâm, who made fame by winning the Nobel Prize for physics, is a Qâdiyânî. Ahmad Didad, a man of religion who struggled against Christians and routed them, is not a Sunnî Muslim, either. These people, on the one hand, and the Wahhâbîs and Shiite men of religion, on the other, are misinforming those Christians who have newly converted to Islam, attracting them into their heretical sects, and thereby preventing them from attaining true Islam. Indeed, the British policy causes severe harm to humanity and to Islam.

Nowadays, everybody who knows a little Arabic and who is capable of expressing himself in writing has been attempting to write religious books. By disguising as a religious man and getting a diploma, each of them has been writing different things. All of them have been demolishing Islam and defiling the belief of Muslims. Pure-hearted young people are at a loss as to what book to read and whom to believe.

Those who want to learn Islam, which Allâhu ta’âlâ likes, and to attain repose and happiness in both worlds by holding fast to Rasûlullâh’s (’alaihi ’s-salâm) religion should read ’ilm al-hâl books, which are the selections from the books that the great men of tasawwuf wrote after the Ahl as-Sunna scholars. Only the Ahl

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as-Sunna scholars have comprehended the real meaning of the Qur’ân and communicated it by writing thousands of books. They are the apples of the eyes of Islam and are praised in the Qur’ân and the Hadîth. One should not read the misguiding and concocted articles of upstart men of religion, of false shaikhs or of insidious enemies of Islam, or fall for their words and lectures. One should look for the correct books prepared by real Muslims, who adapt themselves to Islam and who make their children live compatibly with Islam, i.e., who perform every kind of ’ibâdât and abstain from the harâm.