Confessions Of A British Spy

4- They have completely ceased from worldly business and are
absorbed in matters pertaining to the Hereafter. [1]
5- The emperors are cruel dictators. [2]
6- The roads are unsafe, transportation and travels are
sporadic. [3]
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. [4]
8- The cities are in ruins, and there is no system of supplying
water. [5]
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. [7]
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), Yıldırım
(The Thunderbolt) Bâyezîd Khan’s immaculate army, which
[1] 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.”
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] There were hospitals and asylums everywhere. Even Napoleon was
cured by the Ottomans. All Muslims adapt themselves to the hadîth-isherîf,
“He who has îmân will be clean.”
[5] These slanders are not even worth answering. Fîrûz Shâh, the Sultan
of Delhi, passed away in 790 [C.E. 1388]. The orchards and gardens
irrigated by the wide 240 km canal constructed with his command
relapsed into a wasteland during the British invasion. The remains of
the Ottoman architecture are still dazzling the eyes of tourists.
[6] They must be confusing the Ottomans with those French generals who
were awarded for pouring their kings’ excrement into Seine.
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