I stayed in Baghdad for a time. Then, receiving
the message ordering me to return to London, I left. In London, I talked with
the secretary and some officials of the Ministry. I told them of my activities
and observations during my long mission. They rejoiced greatly at the
information I gave about Iraq and said that they were pleased. On the other
hand, Safiyya, the girl friend of Muhammad of Najd, sent a report agreeing with
mine. I found out also that throughout my mission I had been followed by men
from the Ministry. These men also sent reports concurrent with the reports I
had sent and with the account I had given to the secretary.
The secretary made an appointment for me to meet
the Minister. When I visited the Minister, he met me in a manner that he had
not shown towards me upon my arrival from Istanbul. I knew that I occupied an
exceptional place in his heart now.
The minister was very pleased to know that I had
obtained Muhammad of Najd. “He is a weapon our Ministry has been looking for.
Give him all sorts of promises. It would be worth while if you spent all your
time indoctrinating him,” he said.
When I said, “I have been anxious about Muhammad
of Najd. He may have changed his mind,” he replied, “Don’t worry. He has not
given up the ideas he had when you left him. The spies of our Ministry met him
in Isfahan and reported to our Ministry that he had not changed.” I said to
myself, “How could Muhammad of Najd reveal his secrets to a stranger?” I did
not dare to ask this question to the Minister. However, when I met Muhammad of
Najd later, I found out that in Isfahan a man named Abd-ul-kerîm had met him
and ferreted out his secrets by saying, “I am Shaikh Muhammad’s [meaning me]
brother. He told me all that he knew about you.”
Muhammad of Najd said to me, “Safiyya went with me
to Isfahan and we cohabited with mut’a nikâh for two more months.
Abd-ul-kerîm accompanied me to Shîrâz and found me
a woman named Âsiya, who was prettier and more attractive than Safiyya. Making
mut’a nikâh with that woman, I spent the most delightful moments of my life
with her.”
I found out later that Abd-ul-kerîm was a
Christian agent living in the Jelfa district of Isfahan and working for the
Ministry. And Âsiya, a Jewess living in Shîrâz, was another agent for the
Ministry. All four of us coordinated to train Muhammad of Najd in such a way
that in future he would do what was expected from him in the best way.
When I related the events in the presence of the
Minister, the secretary, and two other members of the Ministry whom I did not
know, the Minister said to me, “You have deserved to receive the greatest award
of the Ministry. For you are the best one among the most significant agents of
the ministry. The secretary will tell you some State secrets, which will help
you in your mission.”
Then they gave me a ten-day leave during which I
could see my family. So I went home right away and spent some of my sweetest
moments with my son, who resembled me very much. My son spoke a few words, and
walked so elegantly that I felt as if he were a piece from my own body. I spent
this ten-day leave so cheerfully, so happily. I felt as if I were going to fly
from joy. It was such a great pleasure to be back home, to be with my family.
During this ten-day leave I visited my old paternal aunt, who loved me very
much. It was wise of me to visit my paternal aunt. For she passed away after my
departure for my third mission. I felt so sad about her decease.
This ten-day leave elapsed as fast as an hour.
Whereas cheerful days such as these go by as quickly as an hour, days of grief
seem to take centuries. I remembered the days when I had suffered that illness
in Najaf. Those days of affliction had seemed like years to me.
When I went to the Ministry to receive new orders,
I met the secretary with his cheerful face and tall stature. He shook my hand
so warmly that his affection was perceptible.
He said to me, “With the command of our minister
and the committee in charge of Colonies, I shall tell you two State secrets.
Later you will benefit very much from these two secrets. No one except a couple
of confidential people know these two secrets.”
Holding my hand, he took me to a room in the
Ministry. I met with something very attractive in this room. Ten men were
sitting
around a round table. The first man was in the
guise of the Ottoman Emperor. He spoke Turkish and English. The second one was
dressed in the attire of the Shaikh-ul-islâm (Chief of Islamic Matters) in
Istanbul. The third one was dressed in an attirement identical with that of the
Shah of Iran. The fourth one was in the atttire of the vizier in the Iranian
palace. The fifth one was dressed like the great scholar leading the Shiites in
Najaf. The last three of these people spoke Persian and English. Each of these
five people had a clerk sitting beside him to write down whatever they would
say. These clerks were imparting to the five men the information collected by
spies about their archetypes in Istanbul, Iran, and Najaf.
The secretary said, “These five people represent
the five people there. In order to know what their archetypes think, we have
educated and trained these people exactly like their archetypes. We intimate
the information we have obtained about their originals in Istanbul, Teheran and
Najaf to these men. And these men, in their turn, imagine themselves to be
their originals in those places. Then we ask them and they answer us. We have
determined that the answers given by these people are seventy-percent agreeable
with the answers that their originals would give.
“If you like, you may ask questions for
assessment. You have already met the scholar of Najaf.” I replied in the
affirmative, for I had met the great Shiite scholar in Najaf and asked him
about some matters. Now I approached his copy and said, “Dear teacher, would it
be permissible for us to wage war against the government because it is Sunnî
and fanatical?” He reflected for a while, and said, “No, it is not permissible for
us to wage war against the government because it is Sunnî. For all Muslims are
brothers. We could declare war on them (Sunnite Muslims) only if they
perpetrated cruelty and persecution on the Ummat (Muslims). And even in this
case we would observe the principles of Amr-i-bi-l-ma’rűf[1] and Nahy-i-ani-l-munkar.[2] We would stop interfering with them as soon as
they stopped their persecution.”
I said, “Dear teacher, may I have your opinion
concerning the matter that Jews and Christians are foul?” “Yes, they are foul,”
he said. “It is necessary to keep away from them.” When I asked the
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[1] Teaching, preaching, and commending the
Islamic commandments.
[2] Admonishing, warning against the Islamic
prohibitions.
reason why, he replied, “It is done so in
retaliation for an insult. For they look on us as disbelievers and deny our Prophet Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’. We therefore
retaliate for this.” I said to him, “Dear teacher, isn’t cleanliness an issue
of îmân? Despite this fact, the avenues and streets around the Sahn-i-sherîf [the area surrounding hadrat
’Alî’s mausoleum] are not clean. Even the madrasas, which are the places of knowledge,
cannot be said to be clean.” He replied, “Yes, it is true; cleanliness is from
îmân. Yet it cannot be helped because the Shiites are negligent about
cleanliness.”
The answers given by this man in the Ministry were
precisely concurrent with the answers I had received from the Shiite scholar in
Najaf. Such accurate identity between this man and the scholar in Najaf amazed
me utterly. In addition, this man spoke Persian.
The secretary said, “If you had met the archetypes
of the other four personages, you would talk to their imitations now and see
how identical they are with their originals.” When I said, “I know how the
Shaikh-ul-islâm thinks. For Ahmed Efendi, my hodja in Istanbul, gave a detailed
description of the Shaikh-ul-islâm to me,” the secretary said, “Then you can go
ahead and talk with his model.”
I went near the Shaikh-ul-islâm’s model and said
to him, “Is it fard to obey the Khalîfa?” “Yes, it is wâjib,” he replied. “It
is wâjib, as it is fard to obey Allah and the Prophet.”
When I asked what evidence he had to prove this, he answered, “Didn’t you hear
about Janâb-i-Allah’s âyat, ‘Obey Allah, His Prophet, and the Ulul amr
from among you’?”[1] I said, “Does this mean that Allah commands us
to obey the Khalîfa Yazîd, who permitted his army to plunder Medîna and who
killed our Prophet’s grandson Huseyn, and
Walîd who drank alcoholic spirits?” His answer was this: “My son! Yazîd was the
Amîr-ul-mu’minîn with Allah’s permission. He did not command the killing of
Huseyn. Do not believe in the Shiite lies! Read the books well! He made a
mistake. Then he made tawba for this (he repented and begged for Allah’s
forgiveness and mercy). He was right about his ordering Medina-i-munawwara
plundered. For the inhabitants of Medina had become quite unbridled and
disobedient. As for Walîd; yes, he was a sinner. It is not wâjib to imitate the
Khalîfa, but to obey his commandments compatible with the Sharî’at.” I had
asked these same questions to my hodja Ahmed Efendi and
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[1] Nisâ sűra, âyat: 59
received identical answers with slight
differences.
Then I asked the secretary, “What are the ultimate
reasons for preparing these models?” He said, “With this method we are
assessing the mental capacities of the (Ottoman) Sultan and the Muslim
scholars, be they Shi’î or Sunnî. We are searching for the measures that will
help us cope with them. For instance, if you know what direction the enemy
forces will come from, you will make preparations accordingly, post your forces
at suitable positions, and thus rout the enemy. On the other hand, if you
aren’t sure about the direction of the enemy assault you will spread your
forces here and there in a haphazard way and suffer a defeat. ... By the same
token, if you know the evidences Muslims will furnish to prove that their
faith, their madh-hab is right, it will be possible for you to prepare the
counter-evidences to rebut their evidences and undermine their belief with
those counter-evidences.”
Then he gave me a book of one thousand pages
containing the results of the observations and projects carried out by the
aforenamed five representative men in areas such as military, finance,
education, and religion. He said, “Please read this book and return it to us.”
I took the book home with me. I read through it with utmost attention during my
three-week holiday.
The book was of a wonderful sort. For the
important answers and the delicate observations it contained sounded genuine. I
think that the answers given by the representative five men were more than
seventy percent agreeable with the answers that their archetypes would have
given. Indeed, the secretary had said that the answers were seventy percent
correct.
Having read the book, I now had more confidence in
my State and I knew for certain that the plans for demolishing the Ottoman
Empire in time shorter than a century had already been prepared. The secretary
also said, “In other similar rooms we have identical tables intended for
countries we have been colonizing as well as for those we are planning to
colonize.”
When I asked the secretary where they found such
diligent and talented men, he replied, “Our agents all over the world are
providing us intelligence continuously. As you see, these representatives are
experts in their work. Naturally, if you were furnished with all the
information possessed by a particular person, you would be able to think like
him and to make the decisions he would make. For you would be his substitute
now.”
The secretary went on, “So this was the first
secret I was
ordered by the Ministry to give you.
“I shall tell you the second secret a month later,
when you return the book of one thousand pages.”
I read the book part by part from the beginning to
the end, focusing all my attention on it. It increased my information about the
Muhammadans. Now I knew how they thought, what their weaknesses were, what made
them powerful, and how to transform their powerful qualities into vulnerable
spots.
Muslims’ weak spots as recorded in the book were
as follows:
1- The Sunnite-Shiite controversy; the
sovereign-people controversy;[1] the Turkish-Iranian controversy; the tribal
controversy; and the scholars-states controversy.[2]
2- With very few exceptions, Muslims are ignorant and illiterate.[3]
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[1] This assertion is entirely wrong. It
contradicts his former statement that “it is fard to obey the Pâdishâh.”
[2] This is sheer calumniation. The written will
of Osmân (’Uthmân) Ghâzî, (the first Ottoman Pâdishâh), is a detailed example
of the value and honour the Ottoman administration set on the scholars. All the
Pâdishâhs granted the highest positions to the scholars. When the jealous
adversaries of Mawlânâ Khâlid Baghdâdî slanderously denounced him to Mahműd
Khân II and demanded that he be executed, the Sultan gave this widely known
answer: “Scholars would by no means be harmful to the State.” The Ottoman
Sultans granted a house, provisions, and a high salary to every scholar.
[3] The books on religion, ethics, îmân, and science written by thousands of Ottoman scholars are known universally. Peasants, who are supposed to be the most illiterate sort of people, were very well informed of their faith, worships, and craft. There were mosques, schools, and madrasas in all villages. Villagers were taught how to read and write, religious and worldly knowledge in these places. Women in villages knew how to read Qur’ân al-kerîm. Most scholars and Awliyâ were brought up and educated in villages.
3- Lack of spirituality, knowledge, and conscience.[1]
4- They have completely ceased from worldly
business and are absorbed in matters pertaining to the Hereafter.[2]
5- The emperors are cruel dictators.[3]
6- The roads are unsafe, transportation and
travels are sporadic.[4]
7- No precaution is taken against epidemics such
as plague and cholera, which kill tens of thousands of people each year;
hygiene is altogether ignored.[5]
8- The cities are in ruins, and there is no system
of supplying water.[6]
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[1] The Ottoman Muslims were very firm
spiritually. The people would run for Jihâd in order to attain martyrdom. After
each of the (five) daily prayers of namâz, as well as during every Friday
Khutba, the religious men would pronounce benedictions over the Khalîfa and the
State, and the whole congregation would say “Âmîn”. Christian villagers, on the
other hand, are mostly illiterate, totally unaware of their faith and worldly
knowledge, and therefore take the priests’ sermons for granted and adhere to
the lies and superstitions they have fabricated in the name of religion. They
are like senseless flocks of animals.
[2] Unlike Christianity, Islam does not separate
the religion from the world. It is an act of worship to busy oneself with worldly
matters. Our Prophet stated, “Work for the world as though you would never
die, and (work) for the Hereafter as if you were going to die tomorrow.”
[3] The emperors brought pressure to bear on the
people for the execution of the principles of the Sharî’at. They did not
perpetrate oppression like the European kings.
[4] The roads were so safe that a Muslim who set
out from Bosnia would travel as far as Mekka comfortably and free of charge,
staying, eating and drinking in the villages on the way, and the villagers
would most of the time give him presents.
[5] There were hospitals and asylums everywhere.
Even Napoleon was cured by the Ottomans. All Muslims adapt themselves to the hadîth-i-sherîf, “He who has îmân will be clean.”
[6] These slanders are not even worth answering.
Fîrűz Shâh, the Sultan of Delhi, passed away in 790 [C.E. 1388]. The orchards
and gardens irrigated by the wide
9- The administration is unable to cope with
rebels and insurgents, there is a general disorderliness, rules of the Qur’ân,
of which they are so proud, are almost never put into practice.[1]
10- Economical collapse, poverty, and
retrogression.
11- There is not an orderly army, nor adequate
weaponry; and the weapons in stock are classical and friable. [Are they unaware
of the systematic army established by Orhan Ghâzî, who ascended to the
(Ottoman) throne in 726 (C.E. 1326), Yýldýrým (The Thunderbolt) Bâyezîd Khan’s
immaculate army, which
routed the great army of crusaders in Nighbolu in
799 (C.E. 1399)?]
12- Violation of women’s right.[2]
13- Lack of environmental health and cleanliness.[3]
After citing what was considered as Muslims’
vulnerable spots in the paragraphs paraphrased above, the book advised to cause
Muslims to remain oblivious of the material and spiritual superiority of their
faith, Islam. Then, it gave the following information about Islam:
1- Islam commands unity and cooperation and
prohibits disunion. It is stated in the Qur’ân, “Hold fast to Allah’s rope altogether.”[4]
2- Islam commands being educated and being
conscious. It is stated in the Qur’ân, “Travel on
the earth.”[5]
3- Islam commands acquiring knowledge. It is
stated in a hadîth, “Learning knowledge
is fard for every Muslim, male and female alike.”
4- Islam commands working for the world. It is
stated in the Qur’ân, “Some of them: O
our Allah! Allot to us whatever is beautiful both in the world and in the
Hereafter.”[6]
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[1] They must be confusing the Ottomans with those French generals who were awarded for pouring their kings’ excrement into Seine.
[2] At a time when the British were totally
oblivious to arts, weaponry, and women’s rights, the Ottomans formulated these
concepts in the most exquisite way. Would they have the face to deny the fact
that the Swedish and the French kings asked for help from the Ottomans?
[3] The streets were extremely clean. In fact, there
were health services allotted to cleaning the spittles in the streets.
[4] Âl-i-’Imrân sűra, âyat: 103
[5] Âl-i-’Imrân sűra, âyat: 137
[6] Baqara sűra, âyat: 201
5- Islam commands consultation. It is stated in
the Qur’ân, “Their deeds are (done)
upon consultation among themselves.”[1]
6- Islam commands to build roads. It is stated in
the Qur’ân, “Walk on the earth.”[2]
7- Islam commands Muslims to maintain their
health. It is stated in a hadîth, “Knowledge
is (made up) of four (parts):
1) The knowledge of Fiqh for the
maintenance of faith; 2) The knowledge
of Medicine for the maintenance of health; 3) The knowledge of Sarf and Nahw (Arabic
grammar) for the maintenance of language; 4) The
knowledge of Astronomy so as to be aware of the times.”
8- Islam commands development. It is stated in the
Qur’ân, “Allah created everything on the earth
for you.”[3]
9- Islam commands orderliness. It is stated in the
Qur’ân, “Everything is based on calculations,
orders.”[4]
10- Islam commands being strong economically. It
is stated in a hadîth. “Work for your
world as though you would never die. And work for your hereafter as if you were
going to die tomorrow.”
11- Islam commands establishing an army equipped
with powerful weapons. It is stated in the Qur’ân, “Prepare as many forces as you can against them.”[5]
12- Islam commands observing women’s rights and to
value them. It is stated in the Qur’ân, “As men
legally have (rights) over women,
so women have rights over them.”[6]
13- Islam commands cleanliness. It is stated in a
hadîth, “Cleanliness is from îmân.”
The book recommended degenerating and impairing
the following power sources:
1- Islam has negated racial, lingual, traditional,
conventional, and national bigotry.
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[1] Shűrâ sűra, âyat: 38
[2] Mulk: 15
[3] Baqâra sűra, âyat: 29
[4] Hijr: 19
[5] Enfâl sűra, âyat: 60
[6] Baqara sűra, âyat: 228
2- Interest, profiteering, fornication, alcoholic spirits,
and pork are forbidden.
3- Muslims are firmly adherent to their ’Ulamâ
(religious scholars).
4- Most of the Sunnî Muslims accept the Khalîfa as
the Prophet’s representative. They
believe that it is fard to show him the same respect as must be shown to Allah
and the Prophet.
5- Jihâd is fard.
6- According to the Shî’î Muslims, all non-Muslims
and Sunnî Muslims are foul people.
7- All Muslims believe that Islam is the only true
religion.
8- Most Muslims believe that it is fard to expel
the Jews and Christians from the Arab peninsula.
9- They perform their worships, (such as namâz,
fast, hajj...), in the most beautiful way.
10- The Shi’î Muslims believe that it is harâm
(forbidden) to build churches in Muslim countries.
11- Muslims hold fast to the principles of the
Islamic belief.
12- The Shi’î Muslims consider it fard to give
one-fifth of the Humus, i.e.
booties taken in Holy War, to the ’Ulamâ.
13- Muslims raise their children with such
education that they are not likely to abandon the way followed by their
ancestors.
14- Muslim women cover themselves so well that
mischief can by no means act on them.
15- Muslims make namâz in jamâ’at, which brings
them together five times daily.
16- Because the Prophet’s
grave and those of ’Alî and other pious Muslims are sacred according to them,
they assemble at these places.
17- There are a number of people descending from
the Prophet, [who are called
Sayyids and Sherîfs]; these people remind of the Prophet
and keep Him always remain alive in the eyes of Muslims.
18- When Muslims assemble, preachers consolidate
their îmân and motivate them to do pious acts.
19- It is fard to perform Amr-i-bi-l-ma’rűf [advising piety] and
nahy-i-ani-l-munkar [admonishing against wrongdoing].
20- It is sunnat to marry more than one women in
order to contribute to the increase of Muslim population.
21- Converting one person to Islam is more
valuable to a Muslim than possessing the whole world.
22- The hadîth, “If a person
opens an auspicious way, he will attain the thawâbs of people who follow that
way as well as the thawâb for having attained it,” is
well known among Muslims.
23- Muslims hold the Qur’ân and hadîths in very
profound reverence. They believe that obeying these sources is the only way of
attaining Paradise.
The book recommended to vitiate Muslims’ staunch
spots and to popularize their weaknesses, and it prescribed the methods for
accomplishing this.
It advised the following steps for popularizing
their vulnerable spots:
1- Establish controversies by inducing animosity among
2- Obstruct schooling and publications, and burn
literature whenever possible. Make sure that Muslim children remain ignorant by
casting various aspersions on religious authorities and thus preventing Muslim
parents from sending their children to religious schools. [This British method
has been very harmful to Islam.]
3-4- Praise Paradise in their presence and
convince them that they need not work for a worldly life. Enlarge the circles
of Tasawwuf. Keep them in an unconscious state by encouraging them to read
books advising Zuhd, such
as Ihyâ-ul-’ulűm-id-dîn, by
Ghazâlî, Mesnevî, by
Mawlânâ, and various books written by Muhyiddîn Arabî.[1]
5- Wheedle the emperors into cruelty and dictatorship by the following demagogic falsifications: You are Allah’s shadows on
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[1] Zuhd, which is commended by books of Tasawwuf, does not mean to cease from worldly labour. It means not to be fond of the world. In other words, working for the world, earning worldly needs, and using them compatibly with the Sharî’at will provide as much thawâb as other acts of worship will.
the earth. In fact, Abű Bakr, ’Umar, ’Uthmân, ’Alî, Umayyads and Abbasids
came to seize power by sheer force and the sword, and each of them was a
sovereign. For example, Abű Bakr assumed power with the help of ’Umar’s sword
and by setting fire to the houses of those who would not obey him, such as
Fâtima’s house.[1] And
’Umar became Khalîfa upon Abű Bakr’s commendation. ’Uthmân, on the other hand,
became the president with ’Umar’s order. As for ’Alî; he became head of the
State by an election held among bandits. Muâwiya assumed power by the sword.[2] Then, in the time of the Umayyads, sovereignty
was turned into an inheritance transferred through paternal chain. So was the
case with the Abbasids. These are the evidences for the fact that in Islam
sovereignty is a form of dictatorship.
6- Delete death penalty for homicide from the penal code. [Death punishment is the only deterrent to homicide and
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[1] There are indications in hadîth-i-sherîfs that Abű Bakr, ’Umar, ’Uthmân, and ‘Alî ’radiy-Allâhu anhum’ would become Khalîfas. Yet there is not a clear statement concerning their times. Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ left this matter to his Sahâba’s choice. The Sahâba had three different kinds of ijtihâd in electing the Khalîfa. Caliphate was not a property to be inherited by one’s relatives. Abű Bakr, who had been the first person to become a Muslim, who had caused others to become Believers, behind whom our Prophet had performed namâz by telling him to be the imâm and conduct the namâz, and with whom the Prophet had migrated (to Medina), was the most suitable candidate. Some (of the Sahâba) went to hadrat ’Alî’s place. One of them, namely, Abű Sufyân, said, “Hold out your hand! I shall pay homage to you! If you like, I shall fill all the place with cavalrymen and infantrymen.” Hadrat ’Alî refused this, answering, “Are you trying to break the Muslims into groups? My staying home is not intended for being elected Khalîfa. Bereavement from Rasűlullah has shocked me. I feel demented.” He went to the mosque. He paid homage to Abű Bakr in the presence of all the others. Upon this Abű Bakr said, “I don’t want to be Khalîfa. I accept it willy-nilly to prevent confusion.” ’Alî replied, “You are more worthy of being Khalîfa.” The statements of praise hadrat ’Alî made of Abű Bakr that day are quoted in our (Turkish) book Se’âdet-i Ebediyye. Hadrat ’Umar accompanied hadrat ’Alî to his house. Hadrat ’Alî would say, “After Rasűlullah, Abű Bakr and ’Umar are the highest of this Ummat (Muslims).” People who believed the Shiite lies and slanders are responsible for the wretched state Muslims are in today. The British are still pushing on this instigation.
[2] Hadrat Muâwiya became Khalîfa upon hadrat
Hasan’s paying homage to him. Please read the book Documents of the Right
Word.
banditry.
Anarchy and banditry cannot be prevented without death penalty.] Hinder the
administration in punishing highwaymen and robbers. Make sure that travelling
is unsafe by supporting and arming them.
7- We can make them lead an unhealthy life with
the following scheme: Everything is dependent on Allah’s foreordination.
Medical treatment will have no role in restoring health. Does not Allah say in
the Qur’ân, “My Rabb (Allah)
makes me eat and drink. He cures me
when I am ill. He alone will kill me and then resurrect me.”[1] Then, no one will recover from an illness or
escape death outside Allah’s will.[2]
8- Make the following statements for encouraging
cruelty: Islam is a religion of worship. It has no interest in State matters.
Therefore, Muhammad and his Khalîfas did not have any ministers or laws.[3]
9- Economic decline is a natural consequence of
the injurious activities advised so far. We can add to the atrophy by rotting
the crops, sinking the trade ships, setting fire to the market places,
destroying dams and barrages and thus leaving agricultural areas and industrial
centers under water, and finally by contaminating their networks of drinking
water.[4]
10- Accustom statesmen to such indulgences as [sex,
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[1] Shűrâ sűra, âyats: 79-80-81
[2] British agents distort the meanings of âyat-i-kerîmas and hadîth-i-sherîfs in order to mislead Muslims. It is sunnat (something done, advised, recommended, liked by the Prophet) to have medical treatment. Allâhu ta’âlâ has created a curing effect in medicine. Our Prophet commanded to take medicine. Allâhu ta’âlâ, the creator of everything, is the healer. Yet He has created a law of causation and commands us to obey this law by holding on to the causes. We must work hard, discover the causes, and use them. To say, “He cures me,” means to say, “He gives me the means that will cause healing.” It is a commandment (of Islam) to do research to discover the causes. Our Prophet stated, “It is farz both for men and for women to study and acquire knowledge.” At another time he stated, “Allâhu ta’âlâ likes those who work and earn.”
[3] Worship does not only consist of namâz, fast
and hajj. It is also worship to do worldly business because Allâhu ta’âlâ
commands it but in a manner compatible with the Sharî’at. It is very thawâb
(deserving reward in the Hereafter) to work for useful things.
[4] See the savagery, the cruelty perpetrated by the British, who call themselves civilized and repeat the phrase ‘human rights’ so often!
sports,] alcohol, gambling, corruption which cause sedition and
intriguing, and spending the State property for their personal advantages.
Encourage the civil servants to do things of this sort and reward those who
serve us in this way.
Then the book added the following advice: The
British spies assigned this duty must be protected secretly or openly, and no
expense must be spared to rescue the ones arrested by Muslims.
11- Popularize all sorts of interest. For interest
not only ruins national economy, but also accustoms Muslims to disobeying the
Koranic rules. Once a person has violated one article of law, it will be easy
for him to violate the other articles, too. They must be told that “interest is
harâm when in multiples, for it is stated in the Qur’ân, ‘Do not receive interest in multiples.’[1] Therefore, not every form of interest is
harâm.” [The pay-off time of a loan must not be appointed in advance. Any extra
payment agreed on (at the time of lending) is interest. This type of interest
is a grave sin, be the extra payment stipulated worth only a dirham. If it is
stipulated that the same amount (borrowed) must be repaid after a certain time,
this is interest according to the Hanafî madh-hab. In sales on credit, time of repayment must be appointed; yet
if the debtor cannot pay off at the appointed time and the time is protracted
and an extra payment is stipulated, this kind of interest is called Mudâ’af. The
âyat-i-karîma quoted above states this type of interest in trade.]
12- Spread false charges of atrocity against scholars, cast sordid aspersions against them and thus alienate Muslims from them. We shall disguise some of our spies as them. Then we shall have them commit squalid deeds. Thus they will be confused with scholars and every scholar will be looked upon with suspicion. It is a must to infiltrate these spies into Al-Az-har, Istanbul, Najaf, and Kerbelâ. We shall open schools, colleges for estranging Muslims from scholars. In these schools we shall educate Byzantine, Greek and Armenian children and bring them up as the enemies of Muslims. As for Muslim children; we shall imbue them with the conviction that their ancestors were ignorant people. In order to make these children hostile towards Khalîfas, scholars, and statesmen, we shall tell them about their errors and convince them that they were busy
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[1] Âl-i-’Imrân sűra, âyat: 130
with their sensuous pleasures, that Khalîfas spent
their time having fun with concubines, that they misused the people’s property,
that they did not obey the Prophet
in anything they did.
13- In order to spread the calumniation that Islam
abhors womankind, we shall quote the âyat, “Men are
dominant over women,”[1] and the hadîth, “The woman is an evil altogether.”[2]
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[1] Nisâ sűra, âyat: 34
[2] It is stated in a hadîth-i-sharîf, “A woman (wife) who obeys the Sharî’at is one of the blessings of Paradise. A woman who follows her sensations and disobeys the Sharî’at is evil.” A poor single woman’s father has to subsist her, be her unmarried or widowed. If he does not, he is to be imprisoned. If she does not have a father, or if her father is (too) poor (to subsist her), her mahram relatives will (have to) care for her. In case she does not have such relatives, either, the government will have to allot a salary for her. A Muslim woman will never have to work for a living. The Islamic religion has burdened man with all the needs of his woman. In return for this heavy burden, man might as well have been made the only inheritor of his progenitors; yet, as another kindness toward womankind, Allâhu ta’âlâ has commanded that they should be given half the property inherited by their brothers. A husband cannot force his wife to work within or without the house. If a woman wants to work, she can do so with her husband’s permission, with the proviso that she should be covered and there should not be men at the place where she works; and in this case her earnings will belong to her. No one can force a woman to relinquish earnings of this sort or property she has inherited or the mehr (she has deserved through marriage agreement). Nor can she be forced to spend it for her or her children’s needs or for anything needed in the house. It is fard for the husband to provide all such needs. In today’s communist regimes, women as well as men are made to work in the heaviest jobs for food only, like animals. In Christian countries, said to be free world countries, and in some Arabic countries said to be Muslim countries, women work like men in factories, in fields, in trade businesses under the sophistry that “life is common.” As it frequently appears in daily newspapers, most of them regret having married, so that law courts teem with files of divorce suits. Utterances spoken by the blessed mouth of the Messenger of Allah are of three kinds: The first kind comprises utterances which come from Allâhu ta’âlâ both in tenor and in vehicle. These utterances are called âyat-i-kerîma, which make up the Qur’ân al-kerîm collectively. The utterance, “Every good and useful thing coming to you is willed and sent by Allâhu ta’âlâ. Every evil and harmful thing is wished by your nafs. All these things are created and sent by Allâhu ta’âlâ,” is the seventy-eighth
14- Dirtiness is the result of lack of water.
Therefore, we must deter the increasing of the water supplies under various
schemes.
The book advised the following steps for
destroying Muslims’ strongholds:
1- Induce such chauvinistic devotions as racism
and nationalism among Muslims so as to retract their attention towards their
pre-Islamic heroisms. Rejuvenate the Pharaoh period in Egypt, the Magi period
in Iran, the Babylonian period in Iraq, the Attila and Dzengiz era [tyrannisms]
in the Ottomans. [They contained a long list on this subject.]
2- The following vices must be done secretly or
publicly: Alcoholic spirits, gambling, fornication, pork, [and fights among
sports clubs.] In doing this, Christians, Jews, Magians, and other non-Muslims
living in Muslim countries should be utilized to a maximum, and those who work
for this purpose should be awarded high salaries by the treasury tepartment of
the Ministry of the Commonwealth.
3- Sow suspicion among them concerning Jihâd;
convince them that Jihâd was a temporary commandment and that it has been
outdated.
4- Dispel the notion that “disbelievers are foul” from the hearts of Shiites. Quote the Koranic verse, “As the food of those given a (heavenly) Book is halâl for you, so is your .
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.âyat of Nisâ sűra. The second kind includes utterances whose words belong to our Prophet while their meanings are inspired by Allâhu ta’âlâ. These utterances are called hadîth-i-qudsî. The utterance, “Be inimical towards your nafs. For it is My enemy,” is a hadîth-i-qudsî. In the third kind are those utterances belonging to our Prophet both in wording and in meaning. They are called hadîth-i sherîf. The utterance, “A woman who obeys the Sharî’at is one of the blessings of Paradise. A woman who follows her nafs is evil,” is a hadîth-i-sherîf. Hadrat Muhyiddîn-i-Arabî explains this hadîth-i-sherîf in the first volume of his book Musâmarât. The British spy withholds the first half of the hadîth and reveals only the latter half. If women all over the world knew about the value, the comfort and peace, the freedom and the right to divorce Islam has conferred on them, they would immediately become Muslims and endeavour to disseminate Islam all over the world. It is a shame that they cannot realise these facts. May Allâhu ta’âlâ bless all humanity with the fortune of learning Islam’s luminous way correctly!
food halâl for them,”[1] and tell them that the Prophet had a Jewish wife named Sâfiyya and a
Christian wife named Mâriya and that the Prophet’s
wives were not foul at all.[2]
5- Imbue Muslims with the belief that “what the Prophet meant by ‘Islam’ was ‘a perfect religion’ and therefore this religion could be Judaism or Christianity as well as Islam.” Substantiate this with the following reasoning: The Qur’ân gives the name ‘Muslim’ to members of all religions. For instance, it quotes the Prophet Joseph (Yűsuf ‘alaihis-salâm’) as having invoked, “Kill me as a Muslim,”[3] and the Prophets Ibrâhîm and Ismâ’îl as having prayed, “O our Rabb (Allah)! Make us Muslims for Yourself and make a Muslim people for
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[1] Mâida sűra, âyat: 5
[2] Hadrat Sâfiyya, whom the British call a Jew,
had already become a Muslim (when she married our Prophet). As for Mâriya, an
Egyptian, she was not one of the blessed wives of the Messenger of Allah. She
was a jâriya. She, too, was a Muslim. (When she passed away), ’Umar
‘radiy-Allâhu anh’, who was the Khalîfa at that time, conducted the ritual prayer (performed when a
Muslim dies). According to the belief of Ahl as-sunna, a Christian woman can be
a jâriya as well as a wife (for a Muslim man). Contrary to the Shiite credo (in
this respect), disbelievers are not foul themselves. What is foul in them is
the belief they hold.
[3] Belief in the information a Prophet has brought from Allâhu ta’âlâ is called Îmân. The information to be believed is of two sorts: (1) Information to be believed only; (2) Information both to be believed and to be practised. The first sort of information, which is the basis of îmân, comprises six tenets. All Prophets taught the same basic principles of îmân. Today, all the Jews, Christians, scientists, statesmen, commanders all over the world, and all these so-called modernists believe in the Hereafter, that is, in resurrection after death. Those who call themselves modern people have to believe, like these people. On the other hand, Prophets’ Sharî’ats, i.e. the commandments and prohibitions in their religions, are not the same. Having îmân and adapting oneself to the Sharî’at is called Islam. Since each Prophet has a different Sharî’at, the Islam of each Prophet is different from that of another. Each Messenger of Allah brought a new Islam, abrogating the Islam of the Prophet prior to him. The Islam brought by the last Prophet Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ shall remain valid till the end of the world. In the 19th and 85th âyats of surat Âl-i-’Imrân, Allâhu ta’âlâ commands Jews and Christians to give up their former Islams. He declares that those who do not adapt themselves to Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ shall not enter Paradise and that they shall suffer eternal burning in Hell. Each of the aforenamed Prophets, i.e. Ibrâhîm, Ismâ’îl, and Yűsuf, supplicated for the Islam that was valid in his time. Those Islams, going to church, for instance, are not valid today.
Yourself from among our
offspring,”[1] and the Prophet
Ya’qűb as having said to his sons, “Die only
and only as Muslims.”[2]
6- Repeat frequently that it is not harâm to build
churches, that the Prophet
and his Khalîfas did not demolish them, that on the contrary they respected
them, that the Qur’ân states, “If Allah had not
dispelled some people by means of others, monasteries, churches, synagogues,
and mosques wherein Allah’s name is mentioned very much would have been
annihilated (by now),”[3] that Islam respects temples, that it does not
demolish them, and that it prevents those who would otherwise demolish them.
7- Confuse Muslims about the hadîths, “Deport the Jews from the Arabic Peninsula,” and,
“Two religions cannot coexist on the
Arabic peninsula.” Say that “If these two hadîths
were true, the Prophet would not have had a
Jewish wife and a Christian one. Nor would he have made an agreement with the
Najran Christians.”[4]
8- Try to hamper Muslims in their worships and
make them falter about the usefulness of worships by saying that “Allah does
not need men’s worships.”[5] Prevent them from their worship of
hajj as well as from any sort of worship that will
bring them together. Likewise, try to obstruct construction of mosques,
mausoleums and madrasas and the restoration of Ka’ba.
9- Mystify the Shiites about the rule that one-fifth of the ghanîma property taken from the enemy in combat is to be given to the ’Ulamâ and explain that this one-fifth belongs to the ghanîma property taken from (Dâr-ul-harb) and that it has nothing to do with commercial earnings. Then add that “Humus (the one-fifth mentioned above) is to be given to the Prophet or
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[1] Baqara sűra, âyat: 128
[2] Baqara sűra, âyat: 132
[3] Hajj sűra, âyat: 40
[4] See the footnote 2 on page 56.
[5] Worships are performed because Allâhu ta’âlâ
has commanded them. Yes, Allâhu ta’âlâ does not need His born slaves’ worships.
Yet the born slaves themselves need worshipping. These people (Christians) go
to church in crowds. On the other hand they prevent Muslims from going to
mosques.
to the Khalîfa, not
to the ’Ulamâ. For the ’Ulamâ are given houses, palaces, animals, and orchards.
Therefore, it is not permissible to give them the (Humus).”
10- Insert heresies into Muslims’ credal tenets
and then criticize Islam for being a religion of terror. Assert that Muslim
countries are retrogressive and that they have undergone shocks, thus impairing
their adherence to Islam. [On the other hand, Muslims established the greatest
and the most civilized empire of the world. They declined as their adherence to
Islam deteriorated.]
11- Very important! Alienate children from their
fathers, thus depriving them of their elders’ education. We shall educate them.
Consequently, the moment children have parted from their fathers’ education,
there will no longer be any possibility for them to maintain contact with their
belief, faith, or religious scholars.
12- Provoke the womenfolk to get rid of their
traditional covers. Fabricate such falsifications as “Covering is not a genuine
Islamic commandment. It is a tradition established in the time of the Abbasids.
Formerly, other people would see the Prophet’s
wives and women would join all sorts of social activities.” After stripping the
woman of her traditional cover, tempt the youth towards her and cause
indecencies between them! This is a very effective method for annihilating
Islam. First use non-Muslim women for this purpose. In the course of time the
Muslim woman will automatically degenerate and will begin to follow their
example.[1]
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[1] Before the revelation of the âyat of Hijâb
(veiling), women would not cover themselves; they would come to the Messenger
of Allah, ask him questions, and learn from him what they did not know.
Whenever the Messenger of Allah visited one of them in her home, other women
would go there, too, sitting, listening, and learning. Six years after the
Hijrat Nűr sűra was revealed to prohibit women from sitting or talking with men
(other than spouse or other close
Umm-i Salama ‘radiy-Allâhu anha’, blessed wife of Rasulullah, narrates: Mayműna ‘radiy-Allâhu anha’, another wife of Rasulullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ and I were with the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’, when Ibn-i-Umm-i-Maktűm ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’
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asked for permission and entered. When the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu
alaihi wa sallam’ saw him he said to us, “Withdraw behind the curtain!” When
I said, “Isn’t he blind? He won’t see us,” the Messenger of Allah answered, “Are
you blind, too? Don’t you see him?” That is, he meant, “He may be blind,
but you aren’t.” This hadîth-i-sherîf was quoted
by Imâm-i-Ahmad and Tirmuzî and Abű Dâwűd ‘rahimahumullâhi ta’âlâ.’ According
to this hadîth-i-sherîf, as it is harâm for a
man to look at a woman who is not his spouse or a close relative, so is it
harâm for a woman to look at a man who is not her spouse or a close relative.
Our madh-hab îmâms took other hadîth-i-sherîfs
into consideration as well, and said that “It is harâm for a woman to look at a
nâ-mahram man’s awrat parts. It is easy to do this. These easy
commandments and prohibitions are called (Rukhsat). It is Azimat for a
woman not to look at a nâ-mahram man’s head and hair. A man’s awrat part for a
woman (the part which is forbidden for a woman to look at) is between his knee
and navel. And (obeying) this (rule only, without paying attention to the
Azîmat), is (called) Rukhsât. As is seen, the Azwâj-i-tâhirat (the pure
wives of the Messenger of Allah) ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhunna’ and the
As-hâb-i-kirâm ‘radiy-Allâhu anhum’ would always act on the Azîmat and they
would refrain from the Rukhsât. The Zindiqs who try to destroy Islam
from within put forward the fact that women did not cover themselves before the
revelation of the âyat of Hijâb and say that “Women did not cover themselves in
the Prophet’s time. Women’s veiling themselves like ogres, a practice which is
so common today, did not exist at that time. Hadrat Âisha, for one, would go
out bare headed. Today’s practice of veiling was invented by the bigoted men of
fiqh afterwards.” The hadîth-i-sherîfs quoted
above show clearly that these statements of theirs are lies and slanders.
The four right Madh-habs, which are
the explanations of the commandments and prohibitions of Allâhu ta’âlâ, give
different accounts pertaining to men’s awrat parts, that is, parts of
their body which are forbidden (for others) to look at or (for them) to show to
others. It is fard for every man to cover those parts of his body which the
Madh-hab he is in prescribes to be harâm. It is harâm to look at someone else’s
parts of awrat. The following hadîth-i-sherîfs
are written in the book Eshi’at-ul-leme’at:
“Let men and women not look at the
awrat parts of people of their own sex.” In the Hanafî Madh-hab, a man’s
parts of awrat for other men are the same as those of
a woman for other women: the area between the knees and the navel. A woman’s
parts of awrat for men nâ-mahram to her, on the other hand, are all her body
with the exception of the hands and face. (Any member of the opposite sex who
is not one of a person’s close relatives called mahram is called nâ-mahram.
Islam names one’s mahram relatives. They are eighteen). A woman’s hair is
within her parts of awrat. It is harâm to look at someone’s parts of awrat even
without any feeling of lust.
“If you see a woman, turn your face away from her! Although
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Exploit every opportunity to put an end to performing namâz in jamâ’at by
casting aspersions on the imâms in mosques, by revealing their mistakes, and by
sowing discord and adversity between them and the jamâ’ats (groups of Muslims)
who perform their daily prayers of namâz behind them.
14- Say that all mausoleums must be demolished to
the ground, that they did not exist in the Prophet’s
time. In addition, deter Muslims from visiting the graves of Prophets, Khalîfas and pious Muslims by arising
doubts about visiting graves. For instance, say, “The Prophet was buried beside his mother and Abű Bekr
and ’Umar were buried in the cemetery called Bâkî’.’Uthmân’s grave is unknown.
Huseyn’s head was buried at (a place called) Hannana. It
is not known where his body was buried. The graves in Kâzimiyya belong to two caliphs. They do
not belong to Kâzim and Jawâd, two descendants of the Prophet. As to the one in Tus (city); that grave
belongs to Hârun, not to Ridâ, a member of the Ahl-i-Bayt (the Prophet’s Family). The graves in Samerra belong to the Abbasids. They do
not belong to Hâdî, Askerî, and Mahdî, members of the Ahl-i-Bayt. As it is fard
to demolish all the mausoleums and domes in Muslim countries, so is it a must
to bulldoze the cemetery called Bâkî’.”
15- Make people feel sceptical about the fact that Sayyids
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.it is not sinful to see one unexpectedly, it is
sinful to look at her again.”
O ’Alî! Do not open your thigh! Do
not look at someone else’s thigh, be it a corpse or a person who is alive.”
“May Allah curse those who open
their parts and those who look at them!”
“A person who makes himself like a community will become one of them.” This hadîth-i-sherîf shows that a person who adapts himself to enemies of Islam in ethics, behaviour or styles of dressing will become one of them. Those who adapt themselves to disbelievers’ wicked fashions, who name harâms ‘fine arts’, and who call people who commit harâms ‘artists’, should take this hadîth-i-sherîf as a warning. It is written as follows in Kimyâ-i-sa’âdat: “It is harâm for women and girls to go out without covering their heads, hair, arms and legs or in thin, ornamented, tight, perfumed dresses. If a woman’s parents, husband or brothers condone her going out in this manner, they will share her sin and the torment (she will suffer for this sin in the Hereafter).” If they make tawba they will be pardoned. Allâhu ta’âlâ likes those who make tawba.
are the Prophet’s descendants. Mix
Sayyids with other people by making non-Sayyids wear black and green turbans.
Thus people will be perplexed in this matter and will consequently begin to
distrust Sayyids. Strip religious authorities and Sayyids of their turbans so
that the Prophetic pedigree will be
lost and religious authorities will not be respected any more.[1]
16- Say that it is fard to demolish the places
where Shiites mourn, that this practice is a heresy and aberration. People
should be prevented from visiting those places, the number of preachers should
be decreased and taxes should be levied on preachers and owners of the places for mourning.
17- Under the pretext of love of freedom, convince all Muslims that “Everyone is free to do whatever he likes. It is not fard to perform Amr-i-bi-l-ma’rűf and Nahy-i-anil-munkar or to teach the Islamic principles.” [On the contrary, it is fard to learn
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[1] Sayyid Abd-ul-Hakîm Arwâsî ‘rahmatullâhi alaih’, a great scholar, states in the book (As-hâb-i-kirâm), which he wrote in Istanbul: “Hadrat Fâtimâ, the blessed daughter of the Messenger of Allah, and all her offspring till the end of the world are members of the Ahl-i-Bayt. It is necessary to love them even if they are disobedient Muslims. Loving them, helping them with one’s heart, body, and/or property, respecting them and observing their rights will cause one to die as a Believer. There was a law court allotted for Sayyids in Hamâ, a city in Syria. In the time of the Abbasid Khalîfas in Egypt, the descendants of Hasan ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ were named Sherîf and it was decided that they were to wear white turbans, and Huseyn’s ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ sons were named Sayyid, who were to wear green turbans. Children born from these two families were registered in the presence of a judge and two witnesses. During the reign of Sultân Abd-ul-majîd Khân ‘rahmatullâhi alaih’ Rashîd Pasha, the masonic vizier, cancelled these law courts under the directions of his British bosses. People without any known genealogical origin or religious madh-hab began to be called Sayyid. Bogus Iranian sayyids spread far and wide. It is stated in Fatâwâ-i-hadîthiyya, ‘In the early days of Islam anyone who was a descendant of the Ahl-i-Bayt was called Sherîf, e.g. Sherîf-i-Abbâsî, Sherîf-i-Zaynalî. Fâtimî Rulers were Shiite. They called only the descendants of Hasan and Huseyn Sherîf. Ashraf Sha’bân bin Huseyn, one of the Turcoman Rulers in Egypt, commanded that Sayyids should wear green turbans so that they be distinguished from Sherîfs. These traditions spread widely, though they do not have any value from the Islamic point of view.’ There is detailed information in this subject in Mir’at-i-kâinât and in the Turkish version of Mawâhib-i-ledunniyya and in the third chapter of the seventh section of the commentary called Zarqânî.”
and teach Islam. It is a
Muslim’s first duty.] In addition, imbue them with this conviction: “Christians
are to remain in their own faith (Christianity) and Jews are to abide by theirs
(Judaism). No one will enter another person’s heart. Amr-i-ma’rűf and
Nahy-i-anil-munkar are the Khalîfa’s duties.”
18- In order to impede Muslims from increasing in
number, births must be limited and polygamy must be prohibited. Marriage must
be subjected to restrictions. For instance, it must be said that an Arab cannot
marry an Iranian, an Iranian cannot marry an Arab, a Turk cannot marry an Arab.
19- Make sure to stop Islamic propagations and
conversions to Islam. Broadcast the conception that Islam is a religion
peculiar to the Arabs only. As an evidence for this, put forward the Koranic
verse which reads, “This is a Dhikr for thee and
thine people.”
20- Pious institutions must be restricted and
confined to the State monopoly, to the extent that individuals must be unable
to establish madrasas or other similar pious institutions.
21- Arouse doubts as to the authenticity of the Qur’ân in Muslims’ minds; publish Koranic translations containing excisions, additions, and interpolations, and then say, “The Qur’ân has been defiled. Its copies are incongruous. A verse one of them contains does not exist in another.” Excise the verses insulting Jews, Christians and all other non-Muslims and those commanding Jihâd, Amr-i-bi-l-ma’rűf and Nahy-i-anil munkar.[1] Translate the Qur’ân into other languages such as
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[1] These British contrivances came to naught. For Allâhu ta’âlâ has been protecting Qur’ân al-kerîm from interpolation. He did not promise also that He would protect the Injîl (the heavenly Book revealed to hadrat Îsâ). It is for this reason that false books in the name of Bible were written. Even these books were changed in the course of time. The first interpolation in them was made by a Jewish convert named Paul. The greatest of the changes that were made in every century was the one constituted by the three hundred and nineteen priests who convened in Nicea in 325 upon the order of Constantine, the first Roman emperor in Istanbul. In 931 [C.E. 1524], Martin Luther, a German priest, established the Protestant sect. Christians who followed the Pope in Rome were called Catholics. The massacres of Saint Bartholomew and Scotland, the catastrophic mass killings after the tribunals called Inquisition are recorded in Christian history as well. In 446 [C.E. 1054], Michael Kirolarius, Patriarch of Istanbul, dissented from the Pope and established the Orthodox Church. The Syrian Monophysite sect was
.Turkish, Persian, Indian, thus to
prevent Arabic from being learned and read outside Arabic countries, and again,
prevent the (Ad-hân), (Namâz), and (Duâ) from being done in Arabic outside of
Arabic countries.
Likewise, Muslims will be made to feel doubts
about hadîths. The translations, criticisms and interpolations planned for the
Qur’ân should be applied to hadîths as well.
When I read through the book, which was entitled How Can We Demolish Islam, I found it really
excellent. It was a peerless guide for the studies I was going to carry on.
When I returned the book to the secretary and told him that it afforded me
great pleasure to read it, he said, “You can be sure that you are not alone in
this field. We have lots of men doing the same job as you have been carrying
on. Our Ministry has assigned over five thousand men to this mission. The Ministry
is considering increasing this number to one hundred thousand. When we reach
this number we shall have brought all Muslims under our sway and obtained all
Muslim countries.”
Sometime later the secretary said: “Good news to
you! Our Ministry needs one century at the most to realize this program. We may
not live to see those happy days, but our children will. What a beautiful
saying this is: ‘I have eaten what others sowed. So I am sowing for others.’
When the British manage this they will have pleased the entire Christendom and
will have rescued them from a twelve-century-old nuisance.”
The secretary went on as follows: “The crusading expeditions which continued for centuries were of no use. Nor can the Mongols [armies of Dzengiz] be said to have done anything to extirpate Islam. For their work was sudden, unsystematic, and ungrounded. They carried on military expeditions so as to reveal their enmity. Consequently, they became tired in a short time. But now our valuable administrators are trying to demolish Islam by means of a very subtle plan and a long-range patience. We must use military force, too. Yet this should be the final phase, that is, after we have completely consumed Islam, after we have hammered it from all directions and rendered it into a miserable state from
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.founded
by Jacobus (Baradaeus), d.
which it will never recover again and fight against us.”
The secretary’s final words were these: “Our superiors in Istanbul must have been very wise and intelligent. They executed our plan precisely. What did they do? They mixed with the Muhammadans and opened madrasas for their children. They built churches. They were perfectly sucessful in popularizing alcoholic spirits, gambling, indecencies, and breaking them into groups by means of instigation [and football clubs]. They aroused doubts in the minds of young Muslims. They inserted controversies and oppositions into their governments. They spread mischief everywhere. They depraved administrators, directors, and statesmen by filling their houses with Christian women. With activities of this sort they broke their forces, undermined their adherence to their faith, corrupted them morally, and disrupted their unity and communication. Now the time has come to commence a sudden war and extirpate Islam.”[1]
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[1] The British applied the twenty-one-article destruction plan, which they had prepared in order to annihilate Islam, to the two great Islamic Empires, Indian and Ottoman. They established heretical Islamic groups, such as Wahhabi, Qâdiyânî, Teblîgh-i-jamâ’at, and Jamâ’at-i-Islâmiyya, in India. Then the British army easily invaded India and destroyed the entire Islamic State. They imprisoned the Sultan and butchered his two sons. Extremely valuable articles and the choicest treasures that had been preserved throughout centuries were plundered and shipped to London. They stole the precious stones, such as diamonds, emeralds and rubies, ornamenting the walls of the mausoleum called Taj-mahal, which the Indian Sultan Shâh-i-Jihân had built in 1041 [C.E. 1631] over the grave of his wife Erjumend Beghum in Aghra, plastering their places on the walls with mud. Today these plasters shout out the British savagery to the whole world. And the British are still spending this stolen wealth for the annihilation of Islam. As is expressed by an Islamic poet, “If the cruel have oppression, the oppressed have Allah with them,” the divine justice rose and they had their deserts in the Second World War. Fearing that the Germans might invade Britain, most of the wealthy British clergymen, households of Statesmen and ministers, and tens of thousands of enemies of Islam boarded ships and were on their way to America, when the magnetic mines released from the two German warships of Graf von Spee and two similar ships caught and sank their ships. They all drowned in the Atlantic Ocean. After the war, upon a decision taken by the center of United Nations Human Rights in New York, they receded from their colonies all over the world. They lost most of their sources of income which the Ministry of the
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.Commonwealth had been exploiting for centuries. They were confined to the island called Great Britain. Food and consumer goods were rationed. I remember the Chief of Turkish General Staff, General Salih Omurtak, saying at a dinner party in 1948, “In London, an official guest as I was, I always left the meal table without being fully fed. In Italy, on my way back, I fed myself up by eating plenty of spaghetti.” This I am quoting because I was seated opposite the general at the dinner table and I heard exactly what he said. His words are still echoing in my ears. Thenâullâh-i-Dahlawî ‘rahmatullâhi aleyh’ makes the following observation in his explanation of the eighty-second âyat-i-kerîma of Sűra-i-Mâida: “Muhy-is-sunna Huseyn Beghawî stated that not all Christians are polytheistic. For polytheism means to deify something, i.e. to worship it. Polytheists, like Jews, bear bitter enmity towards Muslims. They kill Muslims, devastating their homelands and demolishing their mosques. They burn copies of Qur’ân al-kerîm.” Imâm-i-Rabbânî ‘rahmatullâhi aleyh’ states in the third letter of the third volume (of his Mektűbât), “A person who worships any being other than Allâhu ta’âlâ is called a polytheist. A person who has not adapted himself to a Prophet’s Sharî’at is a polytheist.” Christians all over the world today deny Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ and are therefore disbelievers. Most of them are polytheistic because they say that Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ is a god, or that he is one of the three gods. Some of them, who profess that “Jesus is a born slave and a prophet of God”, are Ahl-i-kitâb (People of the Book). All these people maintain an inimical attitude towards Islam and Muslims. Their attacks were administered by the British. We have been informed in 1412 [1992 A.D.] that the Christians recently concocted ten questions and distributed them in Muslim countries. Islamic savants in Bengladesh by preparing answers to these questions disgraced the Christian priests. Hakîkat Kitâbevi in Istanbul, distributes these answers throughout the world under the title of Al-Ekâzîb-ul-cedîde-tül-Hristiyâniyye.