Islams Reformers

salâm) and their trust in the Ahl as-Sunna scholars.
64 - In order to spread Christianity, the British sent Protestant
priests to India in 1270 [A.D. 1853]. The great scholar
Rahmatullah Efendi contended against them for days, eventually
defeating them so decisively that they could no longer answer
him. One night they made a swift exit and went to London.
Rahmatullah Efendi gives a detailed account of this victory in his
book Iz-hâr-ul-haqq. In revenge for this rout, the British
government declared war on India, martyring thousands of
Muslims, in 1274 (A.H.). This catastrophic event is written in
detail in our books Confessions of a British Spy and Could Not
Answer. When their weapons also proved useless in their efforts
to annihilate Islam, they pursued a policy to break it from within.
In 1296 [A.D. 1880], they helped a person named Ahmad
Qâdiyânî to establish a new religion in India. This religion, which
was called Qâdianism or Ahmadiyya, was propagated as an
Islamic religion. The Islamic scholars in India wrote books
proving that votaries of that religion were disbelievers. Formerly
the British had supported the Wahhâbî religion for the same
purpose. Abd-us-salâm, who made fame by winning the Nobel
Prize for physics, is a Qâdiyânî. Ahmad Didad, a man of religion
who struggled against Christians and routed them, is not a Sunnî
Muslim, either. These people, on the one hand, and the Wahhâbîs
and Shiite men of religion, on the other, are misinforming those
Christians who have newly converted to Islam, attracting them
into their heretical sects, and thereby preventing them from
attaining true Islam. Indeed, the British policy causes severe harm
to humanity and to Islam.
Nowadays, everybody who knows a little Arabic and who is
capable of expressing himself in writing has been attempting to
write religious books. By disguising as a religious man and getting
a diploma, each of them has been writing different things. All of
them have been demolishing Islam and defiling the belief of
Muslims. Pure-hearted young people are at a loss as to what book
to read and whom to believe.
Those who want to learn Islam, which Allâhu ta’âlâ likes, and
to attain repose and happiness in both worlds by holding fast to
Rasûlullâh’s (’alaihi ’s-salâm) religion should read ’ilm al-hâl
books, which are the selections from the books that the great men
of tasawwuf wrote after the Ahl as-Sunna scholars. Only the Ahl
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