Why Did They Become Muslims

and the visitors who come to see it look on it not as a church, but as a
great and majestic masterpiece of the Islamic civilization.
Abd-ur-Reshîd Ibrâhîm Efendi [d. 1944, in Japan] states as follows
in the chapter about ‘The British Enmity Against Islam’ in the second
volume of his book ’Âlam-i-Islâm, which was printed in Istanbul in
1328 [1910 C.E.]: “The primary aim of the British is the abrogation of
the Khilâfat-i-Islâmiyya (Islamic Caliphate). The Crimean War, which
was a result of their insidiously provocative policy and during which
they purposely supported the Turks, was one of the stages in their
plans for annihilating the institution of caliphate. The Treaty of Paris
is a blatant disclosure of their stratagem. [Also, the propositions they
made during the peace negotiations in Lausanne reveal their hostility.]
All the disasters that befell on the Turks throughout history are of
British origin, regardless of the cloak used to disguise the real purpose.
British policy is based on the annihilation of Islam. This policy
proceeds from their fears from Islam. In order to mislead Muslims,
they exploit dishonest mercenaries. They represent them as Islamic
scholars, as heroes. The gist of our words is this: the most formidable
enemies of Islam lurk under British identity.” Brian William Jennings,
an American jurist and politician, is famous for his books, conferences,
and membership of the House of Representatives in the American
Congress between 1891 and 1895. Between 1913 and 1915 he was the
Foreign Secretary of U.S.A. He died in 1925. He enlarges on the
British enmity towards Islam, their barbarities and cruelties in his book
The British Domination in India.
The wildest and the most monstrous examples of the Christian
cruelties and persecutions towards Muslims were perpetrated by the
British in India. It is stated as follows in the book As-sawrat-ul-
Hindiyya, which means ‘The Indian Revolution’, by Allâma Fadl-i-
Haqq Khayr-âbâdî, a great Islamic scholar in India, and also in its
commentary entitled Al-yawâqît-ul-mihriyya, written by Mawlânâ
Ghulâm Mihr ’Alî and printed in India in 1384 [1964 C.E.]: “As the
first stage, in 1008 [1600 C.E.], the British received 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
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