People who read the British spy’s confessions
given in the first section will have an idea of what the British think about
Muslims throughout the world. The following is an account of how British spies
have applied the orders they received from the Ministry of the Commonwealth on
the world’s Muslims and what activities the missionaries have been carrying on.
The British are a conceited and arrogant people.
The high value which they attach to themselves and to their own country leaves
its place to a symmetrical detestation when it comes to other people and their
countries.
According to the British, there are three groups
of people on the earth: The first group are the British, who are
self-portraited as the most developed beings Allah has ever created in the
human form. The second group are the white-coloured Europeans and Americans.
These people may also be worthy of respect, as they so generously admit. The
third group are the people who have not had the luck of being born in either of
the first two groups. They are the sort of creatures between human beings and
animals. They are not worthy of respect at all; nor do they deserve such things
as freedom, independence or a country. They have been created for living under
others’ domination, especially that of the British.
Holding such a prejudice about other people, the
British never live among the inhabitants of their colonies. Throughout their
colonies there are clubs, casinos, restaurants, baths, and even stores that are
open only to British people. Native people cannot enter these places.
French writer Marcelle Perneau, who is famous for
his travels to India in the early twentieth century, gives the following
account in his Notes on My Travel to India:
“I made an appointment with an Indian scholar, who
was widely known in Europe, so much so that he had been granted professorship
by some universities; we decided to meet in a British club in India. When the
Indian arrived, the British did not let him in, disignoring his fame. It was
only after I found out what was happening and insisted that I was able to see
the Indian in the club.”
The British have treated other people with such
cruelty as could not be inflicted on animals.
Their biggest colony is India, where they
perpetrated savage, sadistic cruelties for years; in the Amritsar city of this
country a group of Hindus who had come together for a religious rite did not
pay due respect to a British woman missionary. The missionary complained to the
British General Dyer. Upon this the general ordered his soldiers to open fire
on the people performing their rite. Seven hundred people were killed in ten
minutes, and more than a thousand people were wounded. Unsatisfied with this, the
general forced the people to walk on their hands and feet like animals for
three days. A complaint was filed and reported to London, whereupon the
government issued an order for an investigation.
When the inspector sent forth to India for the
investigation asked the general for what reason he had ordered his soldiers to
open fire on defenceless people, the general answered, “I am the commander
here. I make the decisions about the military executions here. I ordered so
because I considered it right.” When the inspector asked what was the reason
for his ordering the people to crawl face downwards, the general answered,
“Some Indians crawl face downwards before their gods. I wanted them to know
that a British woman is as sacred as a Hindu god, and, therefore, they have to
crawl in front of her, too, let alone insulting her.” And when the inspector
reminded him that the people would have to go out for shopping and other
things, the general’s answer was, “If these people were human beings they would
not crawl on their faces in the streets. They live in adjacent houses with flat
roofs. They would walk on their roofs like human beings.” These statements of
the general’s were publicized by the
British press and the general was declared a hero.
[Dyer, Reginald Edward Harry was born in 1281 [A.D. 1864] and died in London in
1346 [A.D. 1927]. The world’s histories mention him as “The famous British
general who quelled the riots against the British oppression in Amritsar city
by turning the city into a lake of blood on April 13,
The British apply a different administrative
system in their colonies with white and originally European people than the one
by which they colonize countries whose people are coloured and aboriginal. The
first group are privileged; that is, they are partly autonomous. The second
group moan with the pains of cruelty. This second group of their colonies,
which they call ‘dominions’, have self-governing states in their internal
affairs, while they are under British domination in their external matters.
Examples of these colonies are Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
Matters concerning the colonies have been assigned
to two ministries. They are the Ministry of the Commonwealth, and the Ministry
of India. The Ministry of the Commonwealth is presided over by Secretary of State for the Colonial Department. This
secretary (or minister) has two councillors and four assistants. One of the
councilors is chosen from among the House of Commons. The other councilor and
the assistants are in office permanently. Change of power will not cause them
to lose their office. One of the four assistants are in charge of matters
concerning Canada, Australia, and some islands, another one is responsible for
Southern Africa, a third one governs Eastern and Western Africa, and the last
one has been assigned to India.
Based on a fetid foundation, a mixture of
hostility against Islam, despotism, trickery and turpitude, the British Empire
formerly called itself a state on which “the sun never sets”. Such countries as
Canada, South Africa, Fiji, the Pacific Islands, Papua, Tonga, Australia, the
British Baluchistan, Burma, Aden, Somali, Borneo, Brunei, Sarawak, India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong-Kong, a part of China, Cyprus,
Malta, (and in
1300 [A.D. 1882]) Egypt, Sudan, Niger, Nigeria,
Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Bahamas, Grenada, Guiana (Guyana),
Bostwana, Gambia, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Singapore were brought
under the British sway. These countries of the world lost their religions,
languages, customs and traditions. In addition, their sources and resources
were exploited by the Britsh.
At the end of their invasions in the nineteenth
century, the Empire took possession of approximately one-fourth of the earth’s
surface, colonizing more than one-fourth of the earth’s population.
India was the most significant, the most
outstanding of the British colonies. It was India’s tremendous population of
over three hundred million [well over seven hundred million as of today] and
its inexhaustible natural wealths that earned the British their universal
domination. In the First World War alone, Britain utilized one and a half
million of India’s population as fighting soldiers and one billion rupees of
its treasury as ready money. They used most of these assets in smashing the
Ottoman Empire. In peace time as well, it was India that helped Britain’s
stupendous industries to survive and sustained the British economy and finance.
There were two reasons for India’s being an incomparably important colony:
First, India was a country where Islam, which the British considered to be the
greatest hindrance to their exploiting the whole world, was widespread, and
Muslims were in the ascendant in this country. Second, India’s natural riches.
In order to keep India under their domination, the
British mounted offensives on all the Muslim countries that had transport links
with India, sowed seeds of mischief and instigation, set brothers against one
another, took these countries under their domination, and transported all their
natural riches and national wealth back to their own country.
The perfidious character inherent in the nature of
the British policy proves itself in that they meticulously followed the
movements in the Ottoman Empire, set the Ottomans on a war with the Russians by
using all sorts of political stratagems, and thus put them into a position
wherefore it would be impossible for them to offer any help to India.
The European pioneers of India are the Portuguese.
Landing
in the port city named Calcutta in India’s coastal
Malabar region in 904 [A.D. 1498], the Portuguese engaged in trade and took
possession of India’s trade business, only to lose it to the Dutch some time
later. Those who snatched India’s trade from the Ducth were the French. It was
not long after that, however, that these people confronted with the British.
As it is related in the book As-Sawrat-ul-Hindiyya, (which means ‘the Indian Revolution’), written by Allâma
Muhammad Fadl-i-Haqq Khayr-âbâdî, one of India’s great Islamic scholars, and in
its commentary entitled Al-yawâkît-ul-mihriyya,
it was in the year 1008 [A.D. 1600] when the
British first managed to take Akbar Shâh’s permission to open trade centers in
Calcutta, India. The same year Queen Elizabeth I sanctioned the regulations for
the East Indian Campaign.
In accordance with these regulations, the campaign was granted permission to
recruit soldiers in Britain, to arm them for its own use, to establish a fleet
of its own, and to organize military and commercial expeditions to India.
They bought land in Calcutta in the time of
Shâh-i-’Âlam I.[1] They brought soldiers with the pretext of
protecting their land. Akbar Shâh was a corrupt person in credal matters. He
held all religions equal. In fact, he convened scholars from various religions
and attempted to establish a common, universal religion, a mixture of all
religions, and made an official announcement of this new religion, which he named
Dîn-i-ilâhî (Divine
Religion), in 990 [A.D. 1582]. From that time up until his death, respect for
Islamic scholars continuously decreased all over India, especially in the
palace, and people who tended towards Akbar Shâh’s religion were esteemed
highly. It was during those days when the British entered India. In return for
their successful medical treatment of Sultân Farrûh Sîr Shâh in 1126 [A.D.
1714], they were awarded the privilege of buying land anywhere they liked
throughout India. After Shâh-i-’Âlam II mounted the throne 1174 [A.D. 1760],
they extended their domination from Bengal to Central India and Racasthan. They
aroused mischief and tumults everywhere in India. In 1218 [A.D. 1803] the
British eventually managed to take Shâh-i-’Âlam II completely under their
authority. The orders which they announced from Delhi were
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[1] Shâh-i-’Âlam bin Alamgîr passed away in 1124
[C.E. 1712].
now being issued in the name of the Shâh. It did
not take them long to equalize the powers of the British governor general with
those of Shâh-i-’Âlam II. They deleted the names of the Muslim Indian emperors
from the Indian monetary coins. In 1253 [C.E. 1837] Bahâdir Shâh II became the
emperor. He could not stand the British oppressions long and, encouraged by the
army and the people, commenced a great insurrection against the British in 1274
[A.D. 1857]. Thus, he managed to have money coined bearing his name and to have
the khutba given with his name mentioned in it, yet the British reaction to
this was extremely vehement and cruel. Entering Delhi, the British soldiers
made havoc of the city, ransacked houses and shops, and pillaged whatever they
found in the name of property and money. They put all Muslims to the sword,
regardless of whether they were young or old, male or female, adult or infant.
It was such a massive destruction that the people could not even find any water
to drink.
One of the commanders of Bahâdir Shâh II, a
general named Baht Khân, persuaded the Sultan to withdraw his army. However,
another commander named Mirzâ Ilâhî Bakhsh, in an effort to ingratiate himself with
the British, misled Bahâdir Shâh, saying that if he left his army and
surrendered he would be able to convince the British that he was innocent and
had been forced to preside over the insurrection and thus would be forgiven by
the British. So Bahâdir Shâh left the main body of his retreating army and took
asylum in Humâyûn Shâh’s mausoleum, ten kilometres from a place called
Qal’a-i-Muallâ within Delhi.
A traitor named Rajab Alî betrayed the Emperor to
a British priest named Hudson, who was notorious for immoral and maladroit acts
and was serving as an intelligence officer in the British army. This man, in
his turn, reported the situation to General Wilson, the then Army Commander,
and asked for his help to arrest the Emperor. When Wilson answered that he did
not have any mercenaries to lend him, Hudson suggested that he could do this
job with a few men, advising that the Emperor must be given the guarantee that
he and his family would not be harmed if he surrendered. At first Wilson
refused this suggestion, but after a while he agreed. Upon this Hudson, taking
ninety men with him, went to Humâyûn Shâh’s mausoleum and assured the Emperor
that no harm would be inflicted on him, his sons and wife. Falling for the
priets’s promise, Bahâdir Shâh surrendered. The Emperor had two sons and a
grandson who had not
surrendered yet. So Hudson set about to arrest
them. Yet they had so many guards that it was impossible to arrest them.
Therefore he took General Wilson’s permission to give them the guarantee that
they would not be harmed if they surrendered. Sending various messengers to the
Emperor’s two sons and grandson, Hudson, the villain, assured them that they
would not be harmed. These people also were taken in by the priest’s lies and
surrendered. As soon as Hudson arrested the Emperor’s two sons and grandson, by
having recourse to a policy and stratagem peculiar to the British, he cast them
into chains.
As the Shâh’s two sons and grandson were being
taken to Delhi with their hands tied, Hudson had the young princes stripped of
their clothes and he martyred them himself by firing bullets into their chests.
He drank from their blood. He had the corpses of these young martyrs hung by
the fortress gate in order to intimidate the people. The following day he sent
their heads to the British governor general Henry Bernard. Then, he had a bowl
of soup made from the martyrs’ flesh and sent it to the Shâh and his spouse.
Being very hungry, they hastily put some into their mouths. Yet, although they
did not know what kind of meat it was, they could not chew it or swallow it.
Instead, they vomited and put the soup dishes on the floor. The villian named
Hudson said, “Why don’t you eat it. It is delicious soup. I had it cooked from
your sons’ flesh.”
In 1275 [A.D. 1858] Bahâdir Shâh II was dethroned
and was subjected to a judicial trial for the crime of causing rebellion and
massacre of Europeans. On March 29, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and
was banished to Indo-China [Rangoon]. It was during November of 1279 [A.D.
1862] that this last Sultan of the Islamic Ghurghânî Empire, Bahâdir Shâh,
passed away in a dungeon far from his country. On the other hand, Allâma
(Muhammad) Fadl-i-Haqq was martyred by the British in a dungeon on the Andaman
Islands in 1278 [C.E. 1861].
During the Ottoman-Russian War, in 1294 [C.E.
1877], the British declared India a British dependency. By submerging the
Ottoman Empire into this war, Midhat Pâsha, a registered member of the
notorious Scotch Masonic Lodge, orchestrated the worst of the damage he had
inflicted on the Islamic religion. His having martyred Sultân Abd-ul-’Azîz Khân
was another favour he did for the British. The British had trained special
agents and had them appointed to high ranking positions in the Ottoman
government. These statesmen were Ottoman in name but British
in mind and speech. Mustafa Rashîd Pâsha, the most
infamous of these men, had been in office as the last Grand Vizier only six
days when he congratulated the British for the Delhi massacre they perpetrated
on the Muslims of India on 28 Oct. 1857. Earlier than that, the British had
asked permission from the Ottomans to use the Egyptian route for the dispatch
of the British soldiers coming from Britain to suppress the Muslims who had
revolted against the British cruelty in India. The permission had been provided
by the masonic agents.
The British not only prevented the opening of new
schools in India, but they also closed all the madrasas and the primary schools
which were the foundations and the most salient symbols of the Islamic
Sharî’at, and they martyred all the scholars and religious authorities who
could have led the people. At this point we consider it appropriate to relate a
real story that a friend of ours told us when he was back from his travels to India
and Pakistan in 1391 [A.D. 1971].
“After visiting the graves of the Awliyâ, such as
Imâm-i-Rabbânî and others ‘qaddas-Allâhu sirrah’ in Serhend city, I went to
Pâniput city, and thence to Delhi. Performing the Friday prayer in the biggest
mosque in Pâniput. I went to the imâm’s house upon his invitation. On the way I
saw a huge door locked with a chain with thick rings. The inscription on the
door said it had been a primary school. I asked the imâm why it was locked. The
imâm said, ‘It has been closed since 1367 [A.D. 1947]. The British provoked the
Hindus against the Muslims and caused a massacre of all the Muslims, women,
men, children and old people, all of them. This school has been closed since
that day. This chain and the lock remind us of the British cruelty. We are
emigrants who came and settled here afterwards.’ ”
The British did away with all the Islamic
scholars, Islamic books, and Islamic schools, a practice which they applied to
all the Islamic countries. Thus they brought up young generations totally
unaware of the religion.
The notorious British Lord Macauley, as soon as he
arrived in Calcutta in 1834, prohibited all sorts of Arabic and Persian
publications and ordered that the ones that were already in the process of
printing should be stopped, and this attitude of his earned him a great deal of
acclamation from his British colleagues. This oppression was assiduously
carried on in places with a Muslim majority, especially in Bengal.
While closing the Islamic madrasas in India on the
one hand, the British opened one hundred and sixty-five colleges, eight of
which were for girls, on the other hand. The students educated in these
colleges were brainwashed and were made hostile towards their fathers’
religion, towards their own ancestors. Two-thirds of the British army that
perpetrated the aforesaid cruelties and savageries in India was made up of the
native people who had been brainwashed, made hostile against their own nation,
Christianized, or hired.
The laws that were enacted in 1249 [C.E. 1833]
served the expansion of the missionary activities and the consolidation of the
Protestant organization in India. Before this spreading of missionary
activities and India’s being fully under British domination, the British were
respectful of the Muslims’ religious belief; they would have cannons fired to
celebrate the Muslims’ holy days, offer them help for the restoration of their
mosques and other places of worship, and even join services in the pious
foundations pertaining to mosques, convents, shrines and madrasas. The
imperative messages arriving from Britain in 1833 and 1838 prohibited the
British from activities of this sort. As these facts show clearly, the policy
employed by the British in their attacks on the Islamic religion is based on deceiving
the world’s Muslims by first pretending to be friendly and helpful and by
spreading the impression far and wide that they love Muslims and serve Islam,
and then, after attaining this subsidiary goal, annihilating gradually and
insidiously all the Islamic essentials, books, schools, and scholars. This
double-faced policy of theirs has done the worst harm to Muslims and all but
exterminated Islam. Later on, they increased their efforts to have English
adopted as the official language and bring up Christianized new generations
from the native people. To this end they opened schools thoroughly under the
control of the missionaries. In fact, the British Prime Minister Lord
Palmerston and many other British Lords said that “God hath given India to the British
so that the Indian people might enjoy the blessings of Christianity.”
Lord Macauley spent his utmost energy and support
for constituting in India a British nation who were Indian in blood and colour
and British in inclinations, thoughts, belief, moral values, and mental
capacity. Therefore, the schools opened by the missionaries allotted very much
importance and time in their curricula to the teaching of the English language
and
literature and Christianity. Scientific knowledge,
(such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc.), was totally disignored. Thus a
number of Christianized people who knew nothing but the English language and
literature were educated and produced. Then these people were employed in the
civil service.
It being an Islamic rule that a Muslim who
abandons his faith will become an apostate, while Hindus considered those who
turn away from Hinduism irreligious, people who were Christianized could not
inherit property from their parents. In order to eliminate this rule, the missionaries
passed a law, which was first enacted in Bengal, in 1832, and then promulgated
all over India, in 1850, thus making it possible for the Christianized native
apostates and renegades to have a share from their parents’ inheritance. For
this reason, Indians called the British schools in India Satanic Registers. [In India and in the Ottoman
Empire official bureaus and institutions were called Defter (Register).] French
writer Marcelle Permeau visited India in 1344 [A.D. 1925] and published a book
when he returned. He says in this book of his, “Calcutta, India’s primary city,
was in such a miserable state that the poverty-stricken purlieus around Paris
and London would fall far short of exemplifying. People and animals living
together in cottages, children crying, ill people moaning. Beside them you see
people utterly enervated from continuous use of alcohol and drugs, sprawling on
the ground in a manner no different from dead people. Watching these
exceedingly hungry, miserable, weak and exhausted people, one cannot help
asking oneself what on earth these people could do.
“Clouds of people are scudding towards factories,
and how much of their profits are these factories paying these people? Needs,
difficulties, infectious diseases, alcohol and drugs are destroying,
annihilating the already enervated, defenceless people. Nowhere else on earth
has human life been treated with such shameless indifference as it is here. No
work, no toil is considered to be hard or unhealthy here. It is not a problem
if a worker dies. Another one will take his place. The only concern for the
British here is how to increase the production rates and how to earn more and
more money.”
Williams Jennings Bryan, a former U.S. Foreign
Secretary, confirms with evidences that the British government is more cruel
and baser than Russia; the statements he makes in
his book British Domination in India can
be paraphrased as follows: “The British, who claim to have bestowed welfare and
happiness on the living of the Indian people, sent millions of Indians to their
graves. This nation (the British), who boast everywhere that they instituted
law courts and disciplinary forces, robbed India to the core through a
political embezzlement. ‘Robbery’ may sound somewhat too tough a term, yet no
other word could depict the British atrocity more explicitly.
“The conscience of the British people, who claim
to be Christians, is not willing to hear the Indian Muslims’ call for help.”
Mister Hodbert Keombtun says in his book Life of the Indian, “The Indian is
tormented by his master [the British], yet he continues to work and serve till
he loses everything he has, till he dies.”
The Indian Muslim workers being employed in the
other British colonies were even under worse conditions. In 1834 the British
industrialists began to employ Indian workers instead of African natives.
Thousands of Muslims were transported from India to South African colonies. The
position of these workers, who were called coolies, was
worse than that of slaves. They were bound by a contract called indentured labour. According to this contract,
the coolie would be indentured for five years. During this period he could not
leave his work or get married; he would have to work day and night under
continuous whipping. In addition, he was liable to a taxation of three British
gold coins yearly. “These facts were announced all over the world through
publications such as Labour in India,
Post-Lecturer in the University of New York.”
Ghandi, a widely known Indian Ruler, received his
education in Britain and returned to India. He was the son of a Christianized
Indian. In fact, his father was the Archbishop of Porbandar city. When in 1311
[A.D. 1893] he was sent by a British company in India to South Africa and
witnessed the heavy conditions the Indians were being employed under and the
barbarous treatment they were being subjected to, he put up a struggle against
the British. Although he was the son of a person brought up and even
Christianized by the British, he could not bear the sight of this British
cruelty and savagery. This was his
first step towards the movement that would later
earn him his renown.
The basis of the policy which the British have
followed throughout the Muslim world consists of this three-word slogan:
“Break, dominate, and destroy their faith.”
They have not hesitated to fulfil all the
requirements of this policy, whatsoever.
The first thing they did in India was to find the
people who would serve them. Using these people, they slowly lit the fire of
mischief. The people most suitable for this purpose were the Hindus living
under Muslims’ domination; so they used these people. The Hindus were leading a
peaceful life under the equitable ruling of the Muslims, when the British
approached them and gradually imbued them with the thought that Hindus were the
real owners of India, that Muslims had been killing the Hindu gods in the name
of religious sacrifice, and that this practice should soon be put an end to.
The Hindus were on the British side now. They employed some of them as
mercenaries. Thus the Hindu nescience and the British hostility against Islam
and avarice for money were brought together to carry out Queen Elizabeth’s
advice for the formation of an army. Discord was sown between the Muslim
governors and the Hindu maharajahs. In the meantime, from amongst the Muslims,
people slack in their faith were hired.
The British Sir Lord Strachey, who served as the
regent on several occasions and who was a member of the (Indian Organization),
states about the Muslim-Hindu enmity, “Anything that will be done in order to
dominate or sow discord is compatible with our government’s policy. The greater
support for our policy in India is the co-existence of two autonomous societies
who are hostile to each other.” Aggravating this hostility, the British
supported the Hindus continuously from 1164 [A.D. 1750] until 1287 [A.D. 1870],
and joined them in all the massacres of Muslims they perpetrated.
Commencing in 1858, the Muslim-Hindu conflicts
grew wider and wider. The British would provoke the Hindus against the Muslims
and then sit and enjoy the fights as the Hindus attacked. Not a single year
passed without bloody events and mischievous tumults that broke out upon the
killing of a cow as a religious sacrifice and which resulted in the massacre of
hundreds, nay,
thousands of Muslims. In order to kindle the
mischief from both ends, they, on the one hand, spread among the Muslims the
belief that killing one cow as a sacrifice would be more pious than killing
seven sheep, and, on the other hand, they rumoured among the Hindus that
rescuing their bovine gods from death would earn them a lot of rewards in the
next world. This mischief of theirs continued after their withdrawal from
India. We would like to exemplify this fact by relating an event written in a
magazine entitled Ittilâ’at, which
was published in Iran in the time of its Prime Minister Musaddiq.
On a day of Qurbân[1] two bearded Muslims wearing turbans and long
robes bought a cow to kill as a sacrifice. As they were passing a Hindu quarter
on their way home, a Hindu stopped them to ask them what they were going to do
with the cow. When they said they were going to kill it as a sacrifice, the
Hindu began to shout, “Hey, people! Help! These men are going to sacrifice our
god.” And the two Muslims also shouted, “O Muslims! Help! These men are going
to seize our sacrifice.” Hindus and Muslims gathered around the place and began
to fight by using sticks and knives. Hundreds of Muslims were killed. Later,
however, the two people who had been taking the cow through the Hindu quarter
were seen disappearing into the British embassy. This comes to mean that this
event was provoked by the British. The correspondent who relates this event
adds, “We know how you spoiled Muslims’ day of Qurbân.” With tricks of this
sort and innumerable other types of cruelty they tried to destroy Muslims.
Later on, when they saw that the Hindus were
gradually rising against them, they began, by 1287 [A.D. 1870], to support the
Muslims against the Hindus.
There appeared strange people who bore Muslim
names yet who were hostile against the Ahl as-sunna, said that it was not fard
to make Jihâd with the sword, said ‘halâl’ about what Islam has prescribed to
be harâm, and attempted to change Islam’s principles of belief. Sir Sayyed
Ahmad, Ghulâm Ahmad Qâdiyânî, Abdullah Ghaznawî, Ismâ’îl-i-Dahlawî, Nazîr
Huseyn Dahlawî, Siddiq Hasan Khân Pehûpâlî, Rashîd Ahmad Kenkuhî, Wahîd
uz-zamân Haydar Âbâdî, Ashraf Alî Tahânawî, and
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[1] One of the Muslims’ holy days on which they
slaughter a sheep, a cow, or a camel as a religious sacrifice.
Muhammad Is-haq, who was Shâh Abd-ul-azîz’s
grandson, were only a few of these people. Supporting these people, the British
caused the appearance of other new sects. They strove to make Muslims follow
these sects.
The most notorious of these sects was the Qâdiyânî, which appeared in 1296 [A.D.
1879]. Its founder, Ghulâm Ahmad, said it was not fard (Islam’s commandment) to
make Jihâd (Holy War) by means of weaponry and that Jihâd which was fard was
advice. So did the British spy Hempher say to Muhammad of Najd.
Ghulâm Ahmad was a heretic belonging to the
Ismâ’îlî group. He died in 1326 [C.E. 1908]. The British hired him for a
considerable sum of money. Formerly he claimed to be a Mujaddîd; then he
promoted his claim to being the promised Mahdî; his next step was to assert
that he was Jesus the Messiah. Finally, he announced that he was a Prophet and had been revealed a new religion. He
called the people he had managed to deceive his ‘ummat’, asserted that many
âyats had foretold of him and that he displayed more miracles than had any
other Prophet. He alleged that those
who would not believe him were unbelievers. His sect spread among the ignorant
people in Punjab and Bombay. The Qâdiyânî sect is still spreading under the
name Ahmadiyya movement
in Europe and America.
The Sunnî Muslims said that it was fard to perform
Jihâd through arms and that it was heresy to serve the British. Muslims who
preached or advised this were punished vehemently and mostly killed. The
Sunnite books were gathered and destroyed.
Islamic scholars who could not be hired or would
not serve the British purposes would be isolated from the Muslim community.
They would not be executed lest they should become famous, but they would be
given life imprisonment in the notorious dungeons on the Andaman Islands. All
the Islamic scholars arrested throughout India on the pretext that they had
been collaborating with the rebels during the revolution were sent to the same
dungeons. [Likewise, when they invaded Istanbul after World War I, they
banished the Ottoman Pâshas and scholars to Malta Island.]
In order that the Muslims should not notice their
grudge against Islam, they received fatwâs defining India as a Dâr-ul-islâm and
not as a Dâr-ul-harb, and spread these fatwâs everywhere.
The hypocrites whom they had trained and named
scholars propagated the impression that the Ottoman Sultans were not Khalîfas,
that caliphate belonged to the Qoureishis by right, that the Ottoman Sultans
had taken possession of caliphate by force and therefore should not be obeyed.
[The hadîth-i-sherîf,
“The Khalîfa shall be from the Qoureish
tribe, (from their descendants),” means, “If there are
Qoureishis, [e.g. sayyids], among the people who deserve to be and fulfil the
conditions for being the Khalîfa, you should prefer (one of) these people.” If
there is not such a person, someone else should be elected. If a person has not
been elected the Khalîfa, or has refused to obey the elected Khalîfa and has
seized power by using force or violence, this person will have to be obeyed.
There can be only one Khalîfa on the earth. All Muslims have to obey him.]
In order to extirpate religious teachings and
demolish Islam from within, they opened a madrasa for the teaching of Islamic
knowledge and an Islamic university in Aligarh. In these schools they educated
religious men who were unaware of religion and hostile to Islam. These people
caused great harms to Islam. A group of these people were chosen, sent to
Britain, trained in such a way as to demolish Islam from within, and brought to
government positions where they would preside over Muslims. Ayyub Khân, who was
made Pakistan’s president in place of M. Jinnah, was one of them.
Although the British seem to have been one of the
winners of the Second World War, actually they lost the war. In fact, Britain,
“a country where the sun never sets,” as the British called their land, became
“a country where the sun never rises” after the war. Having lost all its
colonies, it was like a plucked hen.
Ali Jinnah, who was made Pakistan’s president, was
a Shiite and a British fan. When he died in 1367 [A.D. 1948] Ayyub Khân, a freemason, seized power by staging a coup
d’etat. Also Yahyâ Khân, who took this disbeliever’s place, was a bigoted
Shiite. When he was defeated in the war between Pakistan and India in early
1392 [C.E. 1972], he lost control of Eastern Pakistan and was imprisoned. In
1971 Yahyâ Khân handed the government over to Zulfikâr Ali Bhutto, who was
another British agent educated and trained in Britain. In 1974, the order that
he gave for the killing of his adversaries cost him his own execution.
Ziya-ul-Haqq, who took power by casting out
Zülfikâr Ali Bhutto, was keen enough to perceive the enemies’ plans to destroy
Islam and annihilate Muslims; he would not carry out their desires. He
endeavoured for his country’s improvement in science, technology and arts.
Knowing very well that Islam is the only source of welfare and prosperity for
individuals, for families, for the society, and for the whole nation, he was
thinking of making laws compatible with the Sharî’at. He decided to refer this
question to his people. A referandum was held and the people voted for the
proposal.
The British villains did their masters another
service by assassinating Ziya-ul-Haqq and all his suite. Some time later Ali
Bhutto’s daughter became prime minister and set free all the villains who had
been imprisoned for various crimes against the State, the people, and Islam.
She appointed them to high adminisitrative positions. Tumults and conflicts
commenced in Pakistan. This state of affairs was what the British desired.
After the First and Second World Wars, in many
countries people who would carry out the British plans and protect the British
interests were brought to high positions by the British. These countries have
had their own national anthems, national flags, and presidents, yet they have
never attained religious freedom.
For the last three centuries, any sort of treason
committed against the Turkish and Islamic worlds has had the British plotters
at its root.
They demolished the Ottoman Empire and established
twenty-three big and small states on its lands. Their purpose in doing this was
to hinder Muslims from establishing a powerful and great state.
They always instigated hostilities and wars among
countries said to be Islamic countries. For instance, they made the
nine-percent Nusayrîs dominant in Syria, where the Sunnîs hold a majority. In
1982 the armed forces attacked the cities Hama and Humus, devastating the two
cities and bombing the unarmed, defenceless Sunnî Muslims.
They killed true Sunnî scholars, destroyed Islamic
books, including copies of Qur’ân al-kerîm.
Instead of these Islamic scholars, they brought religiously ignorant, heretical
people they had schooled. Of these people:
Jamâladdîn Afghânî was
born in Afghanistan in 1254 [A.D. 1838]. He read philosophy books. He spied on
Afghanistan for the Russians. He went to Egypt, where he became a freemason and
was appointed the chief of the masonic lodge. Adip Is-haq of Egypt states in
his book Ed-durer that
he was the chief of Cairo masonic lodge. It is stated as follows in the hundred
and twenty-seventh page of the book Les
Franço-Maçons, which was printed in France in 1960:
“Jamâladdîn Afghânî was appointed chief of the masonic lodges founded in Egypt,
and he was succeeded by Muhammad Abdoh. They provided a great deal of help in
the spreading of freemasonry among Muslims.”
Alî Pâsha, a five-time Grand Vizier during the
reigns of Sultân Abd-ul-Majîd and Sultân Abd-ul-’Azîz, was a freemason
affiliated with the British lodge. He invited Afghânî to Istanbul. He gave him
some duties. The time’s Istanbul University Rector, Hasan Tahsin, who had been
declared a heretic through a fatwâ, had Afghânî deliver speeches. Hasan Tahsin
had, in his turn, been trained by the Grand Vizier Mustafa Rashîd Pâsha, an
affiliated member of the British masonic lodge. Afghânî strove to spread his
heretical ideas far and near. Hasan Fehmi Efendi, the time’s Shaikh-ul-islâm,
confuted Afghânî and proved that he was an ignorant heretic; hence, Alî Pâsha
had to expel him from Istanbul. This time he tried to promulgate his ideas of
revolution and religious reformation in Egypt. He pretended to support the
plotters of A’râbî Pâsha against
the British. He made friends with Muhammad Abdoh, who was the Muftî of Egypt in
those days. He corrupted him with his ideas of making reforms in Islam.
Supported by masonic lodges, he began to issue a periodical in Paris and
London. Then he went to Iran. He would not behave properly there, either.
Consequently, he was fastened with chains and left somewhere on the Ottoman
border. Freed somehow, he went to Baghdad, and thence to London, where he wrote
articles castigating Iran. Then he went back to Istanbul and used religion as a
means for political ends by cooperating with the Bahâîs in Iran.
The most notorious of the victims who fell for
Jamâladdîn Afghânî’s propagations intended to demolish Islam from within under
the cloak of a religious man, was Muhammad
Abdoh, born in Egypt in 1265 [A.D. 1849], and died there
in 1323 [C.E. 1905]. Spending a part of his life in Beirut, he left for Paris,
where he joined Jamâladdîn Afghânî’s activities prescribed by masonic lodges.
They began to issue a periodical named Al-urwat-ul-
Wuthqâ. Then
he came back to Beirut and Egypt, endeavouring to carry out in these places the
decisions made by the Paris masonic lodge. Backed by the British, he became the
Muftî of Cairo and assumed an offensive attitude towards the Ahl as-sunna. The
first step he took in this way was to defile and spoil the curricula in the
Jâmi’ul az-har madrasa, thus hindering the teaching of valuable religious lore
to the younger generation. He had the lessons being taught at the university
level abrogated and put into their curricula the teaching of books that were
currently being taught in the secondary level. Stripping the schools of their
capacity as places of knowledge on the one hand, he, on the other hand,
vituperated the Islamic scholars, pledged that these scholars hindered the
teaching of scientific knowledge, and claimed that he would enrich Islam by
adding this knowledge to it. He wrote a book entitled Islam and Christianity, in which he says, “All
religions are the same. They are different only in their outward appearance.
Jews, Christians and Muslims should support one another.” In a letter he wrote
to a priest in London, he says, “I hope to see the two great religions, Islam
and Christianity, hand-in-hand, embracing each other. Then the Torah and the
Bible and the Koran will become books supporting one another, being read
everywhere, and respected by every nation.” He adds that he is looking forward
to seeing Muslims read the Torah and the Bible.
In his interpretation of Qur’ân al-kerîm, which he wrote in
cooperation with Shaltut, the
director of Jâmi’ul az-har, he gives the fatwâ stating that bank interest is
permissible. Later on, fearing that this might incur the wrath of Muslims, he
pretended to have withdrawn from this opinion.
Hannâ Abû Râshid, president of the masonic lodges
in Beirut, makes the following acknowledgement in the hundred and
ninety-seventh page of his book Dâira-tul-ma’ârif-ul-masoniyya,
which he published in 1381 [A.D. 1961]:
“Jamâladdîn Afghânî was the chief of the masonic lodge in Egypt. The lodge had
nearly three hundred members, most of them were scholars and statesmen. After
him Muhammad Abdoh, the imâm, the master, became the chief. Abdoh was a great
freemason. No one could deny the fact that he promoted the masonic spirit all
over the Arabic countries.”
Another most notorious disbeliver whom the British
propagate as an Islamic scholar all over India is Sir Sayyed
Ahmad Khân. He was born in Delhi in 1234 [A.D.
1818]. His father had migrated to India during the reign of Akbar Shâh. In 1837
he began to work as a secretary for his paternal uncle, a judge at a British
law court in Delhi. He was made a judge in 1841 and was promoted to a higher
judgeship in 1855.
Another so-called religious man educated by the
British in India is Hamîdullah. He was born in 1326 [A.D. 1908] in Haydarâbâd,
where the Ismâ’îlî group were the majority. He was brought up in the Ismâ’îlî
group and, therefore, as a fanatical adversary of the Ahl as-sunna. He is a
member of the research institution called CNRS in Paris. He strives to
introduce Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ as the Prophet
for Muslims only.
In their war to annihilate Islam, the most
effective weapon the British used for deceiving Muslims zealous for serving
their country and nation was the method of propagating that Islam should be
adapted to time, modernized and restored to its original purity, which again
was intended to establish an irreligious society. The Shaikh-ul-islâm Mustafa
Sabri Efendi, a great Islamic savant, was one of the people who perceived this
very well. By stating, “To abrogate the madh-habs means to build a bridge
leading to irreligiousness,” he elucidated what their real purposes were.
The British and the other enemies of Islam
endeavoured assiduously to corrupt the dervish convents and paths of Tasawwuf.
They strove hard to annihilate Ikhlâs,which is the third component of the
Sharî’at. The superior leaders of Tasawwuf never busied themselves with
politics, nor would they expect any worldly advantages from anybody. Most of
those great people were profoundly learned mujtahids. For ‘tasawwuf’ means to
follow the way guided by Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’. In other words, it means to
strictly observe the Sharî’at in whatever one says or does, in everything.
However, for a long time, ignorant, sinful people, and even foreign agents, in
order to attain their vile goals, have instituted diverse guilds by using the
names of great men of Tasawwuf, and thus caused the Islamic religion and its
Sharî’at to collapse, to deteriorate. Dhikr, (for instance), means to remember
Allâhu ta’âlâ. This is essentially the heart’s business. Dhikr purifies the
heart of any sort of love except that of Allâhu
ta’âlâ, such as love of the world or of other creatures,
and thus love of Allah settles firmly
in the heart. It is not dhikr for a number of
people, men and women, to come together and articulate some strange sounds in
the name of dhikr. The way followed by those superior men of religion, by the
As-hâb-i-kirâm, has already been forgotten. Sins have been committed in the
name of worshipping. So much so that, especially recently, there is next to no
dervish convent left where wrongdoing and sins have not entered, where
heretical practices such as Shi’a have not penetrated. These practices carried
on in the name of Tasawwuf have become the most effective weapons in demolishing
the Sharî’at. Music has been inserted into dervish convents. Playing musical
instruments, singing, men and women dancing together hand-in-hand and without
even women covering themselves, and all other eccentricities of this sort have
been called worships. Concepts such as ‘Turkish Religious Music’ and ‘Music of
Tasawwuf’ have been fabricated.
Today there is virtually no scholar of Tasawwuf in
Istanbul, in Asia Minor, in Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Syria or Hedjaz, or in any other
Islamic country. There are, however, quite a number of sham murshdîs and men of
tasawwuf exploiting credulous Muslims. The closing of the dervish convents in
Turkey meant closing of the sinning dens where people of doubtful origins had
been meeting and slandering the real great men of Tasawwuf. An example of these
things is still being seen today on some occasions, such as on the Mawlânâ
Jalâladdîn-i Rûmî ‘quddisa sirrûh’ memorial day, when some people who are no
more than ordinary sinners who drink alcohol and commit atrocities in the open,
cry religious chants and whirl in a so-called religious ecstacy. Upon watching
these things, people who are unlearned in religious matters think that Islam
means doing these things.
As it is seen, British agents and missionaries
first corrupted these homes of knowledge, sagacity and beautiful morality, and
then, on the pretext that they were places of depravity, they abrogated not
only the corrupt ones but also the ones that had not been adulterated. All the
sects founded by the British, such as Wahhabism, religious eclecticism and
reformism, and the Salafiyya sect, embody a systematic hostility against
Tasawwuf.
Enemies of Islam, particularly the British,
employed all sorts of methods to retard Muslims in science and technology.
Muslims were hampered from trade and arts. Atrocities such as alcoholic
spirits, indecencies, revels and gambling were encouraged and
popularized in order to spoil the beautiful moral
qualities existent in Islamic countries and to annihilate Islamic
civilizations. Byzantine, Armenian and other non-Muslim women were employed as
agents for depraving people. Young girls were lured into losing their chastity
by means of resplendent decoys, such as fashion houses, dance courses, and
schools for training mannequins and actresses. Muslim parents still do have
very much to do in this respect. They have to be wide awake so as not to let
their children fall into the traps set by these impious people.
Towards its declining years, the Ottoman Empire
sent students and statesmen out to Europe. Some of these students and statesmen
were persuaded into joining masonic lodges. Those who were to learn science and
technology were taught techniques for demolishing Islam and the Ottoman Empire.
Of these people who did the greatest harm to the Empire and to Muslims was
Mustafâ Rashîd Pâsha. His stay in London was entirely appropriated to
disciplining him as an avowed and insidious enemy of Islam. He cooperated with
the Scottish masonic lodges. It was too late when the Sultân, Mahmûd Khân, took
heed of Mustafâ Rashîd Pâsha’s treacherous acts and ordered that he be
executed; for the remainder of his lifetime was not long enough for him to have
his order carried out. After the Sultân’s passing away, Mustafâ Rashîd Pâsha
and his colleagues returned to Istanbul and did Islam and Muslims the severest
harm they had ever suffered.
Abd-ul-majîd Khân, who became the Pâdishâh in 1255
[A.D. 1839], was in his eighteenth year yet. He was too young and quite
inexperienced. Nor did any of the scholars around him warn him. It was this
state that caused the deplorable turning point in the Ottoman history and
brought the whole Empire to a declining rhythm from
which it could never recover. The gullible, pure-hearted young Emperor fell for
the cajolery of the British, the formidable and insidious enemies of Islam, and
appointed the ignoramuses trained by the Scottish masons to administrative
positions. He was too immature to sense their policy of demolishing the State
from within. And there was no one to caution him. Lord Rading, a cunning member
of the Scottish Masonic Organization, which
had been established in Britain with a view to demolishing Islam, was sent to
Istanbul as the British ambassador. With blandishing statements such as, “If
you would appoint this cultured and successful vizier as Grand Vizier, all the
disagreements between the British Empire and your great Empire
would be solved, and the great Ottoman Empire
would make progress in economic, social and military areas,” he managed to
persuade the Khalîfa.
As soon as Rashîd Pâsha took possession of the
position of Grand Vizier in 1262 [A.D. 1846], he began to open masonic lodges
in large cities, using as a basis for his move the so-called law of Tanzîmât [Reorganization], which he had
prepared in coordination with Lord Rading as he was Foreign Minister in 1253
and officially promulgated in 1255. Homes of espionage and treason began to
function. Young people were educated without any religious knowledge. Following
the plans dictated from London, they, on the one hand, executed administrative,
agricultural, military reorganizations, thus using these activities as show
business to distract public attention, and, on the other hand began to
devastate Islamic morality, love of ancestors, and national unity. Training
agents suitable for their purposes, they located these people in important
administrative positions. In those years Europe was taking gigantic strides in
physics and chemistry. New discoveries and improvements were being made, and
tremendous factories and technical schools were being constructed. All these
renovations were being neglected by the Ottomans. On the contrary, subjects
such as science, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy, which had been in the
curricula of the madrasa system since the reign of Fâtih (Muhammad the
Conqueror of Istanbul), were abrogated once and for all. Thus the education of
scientifically learned scholars was hampered under the sophistry that “men of
religion would not need scientific knowledge.” Then, enemies of Islam who came
afterwards tried to estrange Muslim children from Islam by saying that “men of
religion do not know science. Therefore they are ignorant, backward people.”
Whatever was harmful to Islam and Muslims would be called ‘modern’ and
‘progressive’. Each law passed would be against the State. Turks, the true
owners of the country, would be treated as second class citizens.
Whereas Muslims who would fail to do their
military service were fined very high amounts of money which were beyond their
ability to pay, the non-Muslims would have to pay very insignificant fines for
the same offence. While the real children of this country were being martyred
in the wars contrived by the British, the country’s industries and trades were
gradually being transferred into the hands of non-Muslims and freemasons as a
result of the intrigues carried on by Rashîd Pâsha
and his masonic henchmen.
Alleging that the Russian Czar Nicholas I was
provoking the Orthodox community in Jerusalem against the Catholics, the
British urged the Emperor of France Bonaparte III, who was already nervous
about any probable Russian power in the Mediterranean, into joining the Crimean
War between the Turks and the Russians. This cooperation, which was actually
intended for the British interests, was presented to the Turkish people as a
result of Rashîd Pâsha’s diplomatic accomplishments. It was the Sultân himself,
again, who was the first to take notice of these destructive strategies which
the enemies were striving to conceal under falsely-adorned advertisements and
the ostentation of a counterfeit friendship. He felt such bitter remorse that
from time to time he would shut himself up in his private section in the palace
and sob bitterly. He would desperately search for ways of fighting against
these enemies gnawing at the country and the people, and deploringly beseech Allâhu ta’âlâ for help. Therefore, he
dismissed Rashîd Pâsha from the office of Grand Vizier several times, yet each
time this foxy man, who had appropriated for himself such nicknames as ‘grand’
and ‘great’, somehow managed to overthrow his rivals and resume his position.
Unfortunately, the deep feeling of distress and remorse the Sultân had been
suffering developed into turberculosis, which in turn put an early end to the
young Emperor’s life. What remained for Mustafâ Rashîd Pâsha to do in the years
to come was to make sure that all sorts of administrative positions, university
fellowships and law court presidencies be shared among his disciples only; and
he did so, too. Thus he paved the way for a period called the Qaht-i-rijâl (scarcity of competent men) in
Ottoman history and caused the Ottoman Empire to be called the Sick Man.
Ömer Aksu, a professor of economics, says in his
article published on the January 22, 1989 issue of the daily Türkiye newspaper, “The 1839 Tânzimât
Firman has been shown as the starting point of our movement of Westernization.
So far we do not appear to have understood the fact that what we should borrow
from the West is technology; culture, on the other hand, should remain
national. We have looked on Westernization as adoption of Christianity. The
trade agreement that Mustafâ Rashîd Pâsha made with the British was the
severest blow on our
efforts of industrialization.”
Scotch masonic lodges carried over their
domination in the Ottoman Empire. Pâdishâhs were martyred. Whatever would have
been useful for the country and the nation was objected to. Rebellions and
revolutions broke out one after another. Who waged the most die-hard struggle
against these traitors was Sultân Abd-ul-hamîd Khân II (may his abode be
Paradise). They therefore announced him to be the “Red Sultân”. Sultân
Abd-ul-hamîd improved the Empire economically, opened very many schools and
universities, and developed the country. He had a medical faculty built; this
school did not have an equal in Europe with the exception of the one in Vienna.
A faculty of political sciences was constructed in 1293 [A.D. 1876]. He founded
a faculty of law and the Audit Department in 1297. He instituted an engineering
department and a boarding high school for girls in 1301. He had water from the
Terkos lake conveyed to Istanbul. He had a school for silkworm breeding opened
in Bursa, and a school for agriculture and veterinary medicine established at
Halkalı. He had a paper factory built at Hamidiyye, a coal-gas factory
established at Kadıköy, and a wharf for the Beirut harbour constructed. He had
the Ottoman Insurance Company instituted. He had coal mines opened up in Ereğli
and Zonguldak. He had an insane asylum established, a hospital called Hamidiyye
Etfâl built at Şişli, and the Dâr-ul-aceze instituted. He formed the most
powerful army of the world in his time. He had the old and obsolete ships towed
into the Golden Horn and reinforced the fleet with high-quality cruisers and
battleships newly made in Europe. He had Istanbul-Eskişehir-Ankara,
Eskişehir-Adana-Baghdad, and Adana-Damascus-Medina railways built. Thus the
world’s longest railway network was in the Ottoman country in those days. These
works of Abd-ul-hamîd Khân (may his abode be Paradise) have survived to our
time. People who travel by train today will see with pride that all the train
stations throughout this country are the same ones built during the reign of
Abd-ul-hamîd Khân.
Jews, supported and encouraged by the British,
were planning to establish a Jewish State in Palestinian territory.
Abd-ul-hamîd Khân, who was wise to their Zionistic activities and aspirations
and therefore was quite aware of the Jewish threat in the region, advised the
Palestinians not to sell the land of Palestine to Jews. Theodor Hertzel, leader
of the Universal Zionist Organization, taking Rabbi Moshe Levi with him,
visited Sultân Abd-ul-hamîd
and requested that Jews be sold land. The Sultân’s
answer was this: “I would not give you a tiniest piece of land even if all the
world’s states came to me and poured in front of me all worldly treasures. This
land, which cost our ancestors their lives and which has been preserved until
today, is not saleable.”
Upon this, the Jews cooperated with the party
called Union and Progress. All the evil forces on the earth united against the
Sultân, eventually dethroning him and orphaning all Muslims, in 1327 [C.E.
1909]. The leaders of the Union and Progress Party filled the highest positions
of the State with enemies of the religion and freemasons. In fact, Hayrullah
and Mûsâ Kâzım, whom they appointed as Shaikh-ul-islâm respectively, were
freemasons. They made the country bloody all over. In the Balkan, Çanakkale
(Dardanelles), Russian and Palestinian wars, which were actually caused by
British henchmen, the world’s biggest armed force founded by Abd-ul-hamîd Khân
was annihilated through treacherous and base plans. They martyred hundreds of
thousands of innocent youngsters and proved their own perfidious characters by
fleeing the country at a time when the country needed unity and protection more
than any other time.
Our non-Muslim compatriots who had been seduced in
the missionary schools opened in the Ottoman Empire and in churches were
provoked to rise against the Ottoman administration. The black-caped spies, who
were sent forth under such names as ‘teachers for schools’ and ‘priests for
churches’, and the so-called newspaper correspondents took money, weapons, and
instigation wherever they went. Great rebellions broke out. The massacres
perpetrated by Armenians, Bulgarians and Greeks still occupy the pages of
history as stains representing human cruelty. It was the British, again, who
brought the Greeks to Izmir. Allâhu ta’âlâ showed
mercy to the Turkish nation, so that they were able to defend this beautiful
country of ours at the end of a great struggle for independence.
When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, the whole world
was suffused with a state of utter chaos. The Ottoman Empire had been serving
as a buffer between states. It was a protector for Muslims and a deterrent to
war between disbelievers. After Sultân Abd-ul-hamîd Khân, there was no more
comfort or peace left in any country. Nor did bloodbaths and massacres ever come
to an end in Europe, whose states first entered the First World
War, then underwent the Second World War, and then
were crushed under a Communist invasion and cruelty.
Those nations who had collaborated with the
British and attacked the Ottomans from the back were now in such a miserable
state that it appeared as if they were never going to enjoy peace again. They
were so penitent for their wrongdoing that they began to have the Khutba
performed in the name of the Ottoman Khalîfa again. When finally an Israel
State was established in Palestine by the British, it became obvious how
valuable the Ottoman existence had been. The savageries the Palestinians have
been suffering under the Israelite cruelty are being reported in newspapers and
shown on television programmes world over. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad
Abd-ul-Majîd made the following statement in 1990: “Egypt lived its most
comfortable and peaceful days in the time of the Ottomans.”
Christian missionaries appear to have been
indispensable in places where Europe’s Christian countries and America have had
interests. These missionaries are hunters of advantages and spoilers of peace
hidden behind the simulation of offering service, peace and love to Îsâ (Jesus)
‘alaihis-salâm’, whom they divinize, (may Allâhu
ta’âlâ protect us against such heresy). Their more
important task is to make the countries they have been assigned dependent on
Christian countries. Missionaries learn perfectly the languages, customs and
traditions of the countries they are going to go to. As soon as they begin
their mission in a country, they study its political status, military power,
geographical position, economic level, and religious structure to the tiniest
details, and report their findings to the Christian government they are working
for. Wherever they go they find people to collaborate with and hire these
people. While still bearing names identical with those of the native people,
these people are now either Christianized ignoramuses or hired traitors.
A candidate missionary is trained either in the
country where he is to carry on his mission or by another missionary trained in
that country.
Missionary activities increased in the aftermath
of the Gülhâne Firmân prepared
and proclaimed by Rashîd Pâsha, the freemason. Colleges were opened in the most
beautiful places of
Anatolia. Fırat (Euphrates)
College was
opened in Harput in 1276 [A.D. 1859]. No degree of expense was deemed too much
in building this school. In the meantime missionaries established sixty-two
centres on the plain of Harput, and twenty-one churches were built. Missionary
organisations were instituted in sixty-two of the sixty-six Armenian villages
and one church was constructed for every three villages. All the Armenians,
regardless of what age, were antagonized against the Ottomans, and female
missionaries spared no effort to train Armenian women and girls for this
purpose. The notorious woman missionary Maria A. West wrote the following
explanation in her book ‘Romance of Mission’, which she published afterwards:
“We penetrated the souls of the Armenians. We carried out a revolution in their
lives.” This activity was conducted in any place with an Armenian population.
Antep College in Gâziantep, Anadolu College in Merzifon, and Robert College in
Istanbul are only a few examples. The Merzifon College, for instance, did not
have any Turkish students. Of its one hundred and thirty-five students, one
hundred and eight were Armenians and twenty-seven were Byzantines. These
students were boarders collected from all parts of Anatolia. The director was a
priest, like in the others. In the meantime a kind of boiling motion began in
Anatolia. Militants from the clandestine Armenian Society ruthlessly killed
Muslims and burned Muslim villages, recognizing no right to live for the
Ottomans, who were the guards, the owners of the country. The Armenians were
pursued and an operation of retaliation and repression was executed in 1311
[C.E. 1893], whereupon it was found out that the militants were camouflaged in
that college and planned all their activities there, and that their chieftains
were two college teachers named Kayayan and Tumayan. Upon this the missionaries
raised a universal clamour. In order to save the two villainous Armenians,
great public demonstrations were arranged in America and England. Strange to
say, this event was a cause of discord between Britain and the Ottoman Empire.
And what is even more strange is that when the demonstrations arranged by the
British missionaries were held in 1893, the Director of the Merzifon Anadolu
College was in London, and among the demonstrators, too. The massacre of
Muslims in Anatolia, which were perpetrated by Christians, were later reflected
in the books of Christian writers in totally the opposite way. One of these
lies is written in Mer’ash chapter of Arabic dictionary Al-Munjid, a book prepared in Beirut.
In 1893, three million copies of the Bible and
four million other Christian books were distributed by missionaries to the
Armenians in Turkey. Accordingly, every one of the Armenians, including the
newly born babies, was given seven books. The amount of money spent yearly by
the American missionaries alone was 285,000 dollars. To elucidate how great an
amount this money was, we would like to state that seventeen hundred and
twenty-eight gigantic schools like the Merzifon Anadolu College could have been
constructed by an equal expenditure.
It would be sheer credulity to think that it was
religious zeal that motivated the missionaries to dispense with this stupendous
sum of money. For religion is a trade in the eyes of missionaries. This amount
of money, which the missionaries spent in Anatolia for the purpose of
demolishing Islam and extirpating the Ottoman nation, was a tiny fraction of
the money they had collected through propagations that “Turks are massacring
Armenians. Let us help them.”
It was around the same years when our Greek
compatriots in Athens and Yenişehir, incited by the missionaries in colleges
and churches and supported by tremendous armed forces from Britain, revolted
and wildly massacred hundreds of thousands of Muslims, children and women alike.
This rebellion was quelled by forces under Edhem Pâsha’s command in 1313 [A.D.
1895]. This was a victory which was achieved not only against the Greek forces,
but also against the British, the real inciters.
Britain is governed by three authorities: The King,
Parliament, and the Church (i.e. Westminister). Up until the year 918 [A.D.
1512], the parliament and the king’s palace was within Westminister. After the
conflagration in 1512, the king moved to Buckingham Palace, and parliament and
the church remained under the same roof. In Britain the church and the state
are interlaced. Kings and Queens are crowned by the archbishop in church.
According to a report entitled “Social
Inclinations” and published by the British Central Bureau of Statistics, out of
every hundred babies born in Britain, twenty-three are born as a result of
illegitimate relations.
According to a statistical report announced by the
British metropolitan police Scotland Yard and published in an Istanbul
daily newspaper dated May 7, 1990, there is no
more security of life in London, which has become a very dangerous city,
particularly for women. According to the British police reports, in the last
twelve years there has been an increase in all sorts of offences, mainly rapes
and robberies.
Family, in all countries and religions, is an
institution formed by a man and a woman who have come together in a legitimate
way. On the other hand, British laws have legitimized and protected two men’s
practising homosexual acts.
It is stated in a report headed ‘Scandal in the
British army’ which appeared in a daily Istanbul newspaper dated November 12,
1987, that the newly enlisted lance corporals in the Guards regiment belonging
to Queen Elizabeth II were sexually harassed and were subjected to sadistic
torture.
In a research article published in the December
28, 1990, issue of the daily Türkiye, it
is reported that the rate of homosexuals in British churches has reached 15 per
cent and their number in the Houses of Lords and Commons is even higher. Indecencies
have spread out to the Parliament and
scandals like Profumo have erupted. Britain is the first European
country where homosexuals formed an organization. Even in places where such
indecencies are practised, British hostility against Islam is quite
conspicuous. The back streets of London, where adultery, pederasty and all the
other sorts of indecencies are committed, are painted green, a colour Islam
holds sacred, and tablets depicting Mekka hang on the doors of these dens of
abhorrence.
According to a report published in the British
daily newspaper Guardian, two
hundred thousand girls resorted to law courts and asked for protection against
their fathers who had been harassing them sexually since they had reached the
age of puberty. According to the BBC, on the other hand, the number of those
who did not resort to law courts (though having been subjected to the same
abominable treatment) is estimated to be around five million.
With respect to land shares, Britain has the most
inequitable system world over. The ceaseless struggles waged by British
peasants against lords are recorded in history. It is a fact that even today
eighty per cent of British land is possessed by a privileged minority.
It is written in the May 31, 1992 Sunday edition of
Türkiye,
“Unemployment and poverty which was caused by
economic depression increases the suicides in England. It was reported
in the British Medical periodical that a study which was carried out by two
doctors from Oxford Hospital showed that every year a hundred thousand people
commit suicide and 4500 of them died. Of them, 62 percent were young girls.” No
other State as treacherous, aggressive and wild as the British who martyred
hundreds of thousands of Muslims every year and who led hundreds of thousands
of their own people to commit suicide has been witnessed.
Ireland, on the other hand, has become a nuisance
to Britain. We hope that we shall all live up to see those happy days when they
will fall into the traps they have set for us.
In order to bless ourselves with the blessed name
of Sayyid Abd-ul-hakîm Arwâsî ‘rahmatullâhi aleyh’, we would like to end the
second section of our book with his following statements, which define the
British in a way covering all the main points while leaving out any points that
are not relevant:
“The British are the greatest enemies of Islam.
Let us compare Islam to a tree; other disbelievers will fell this tree by
cutting it by the lowest point of its trunk whenever they have the opportunity.
Consequently, Muslims will begin feeling hostility towards them. Yet this tree
may send forth roots some day. British policy, on the other hand, is quite
different. He will serve this tree; he will feed it. So Muslims will develop a
liking for him. However, one night, when all the people are sound asleep, he
will administer poison to its root without anyone noticing it. The tree will
dry up for good and will never sprout again. He will go on duping Muslims by
expressing his solidarity with them. This exemplification of poisoning represents
the British stratagem of extirpating Islamic scholars, Islamic literature and
Islamic learning through the hypocritical and ignoble natives he has hired in
return for the appeasement of sensuous desires, such as money, rank, positions
and women.”
May Allâhu ta’âlâ protect
all Muslims against all sorts of evil. May He protect statesmen, Islamic
scholars and all Muslims from falling for the deceit and tricks of missionaries
and the British and from serving them!