Confessions Of A British Spy

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
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