Islam and Christianity

Ekber Shâh’s approval to open trade centers in the Calcutta city
of India. During the reign of Shâh-i-Âlam, they bought land areas
in Calcutta, and brought troops for the protection of those areas.
Later the permission was developed into a privilege that they
could enjoy throughout India as a reward for their successful
medical treatment of Sultân Ferruh Sîr Shâh. Infiltrating Delhi
during the time of Shâh-i-Âlam II, they seized the executive
power and began to perpetrate cruelty. In the meantime, the
Wahhâbîs living in India stigmatized the Sunnî, Hanafî and Sôfî
Sultân Bahadir Shâh II as a heretic, a vilification which gradually
developed into calling him an unbeliever. Supported by those
slanderers, by the unbelievers called Hindus, and especially by
the perfidious vizier Ahsanullah Khân, the British troops entered
Delhi. They raided houses and shops, plundering goods and
money. They put many people to the sword, women and children
alike. It was impossible to find water to drink. They arrested the
very old Shâh and his household, who had sheltered in the
mausoleum of Humâyûn Shâh, and drove them towards the
fortress with their hands tied behind them. On the way, Patriarch
Hudson had the Shâh’s three sons stripped of their clothes,
leaving only their underwears on them, and martyred them by
shooting bullets into their chests. He drank from their blood and
had the corpses hanged on the entrance of the fortress. The
following day he took their heads to the British commander
Henry Bernard. Then, boiling the heads in water, he took the
soup to the Shâh and his wife. The hungry pair spooned the soup
into their mouths at once. Yet they could not chew or swallow it,
although they did not know what kind of meat it was. They took
the contents out of their mouths and put them on the ground.
Hudson, the villainous priest, mocked them, saying, ‘Why don’t
you eat it? It is delicious soup. I had it cooked from your sons’
flesh.’ Then they exiled the Sultân, his wife and other close
relatives to the city of Rangoon [1]
and imprisoned them there.”
The Sultân passed away in the dungeon, in 1279. In Delhi they
martyred thirty thousand Muslims, three thousand of them by
shooting and twenty-seven thousand by slaughtering. The only
survivors were those who escaped at night. In the other towns and
villages as well, innumerable Muslims were slain by Christians,
who burned historical works of art, loaded peerless and
invaluable pieces of jewelry on ships, and sailed them to London.
[1] The former name for Yangon, the capital city of Myanmar (Burma).
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